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Shirley tilghman biography

          Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in!

          Tilghman was the 19th president of Princeton University; she was the first woman to hold the position and the second female president in the Ivy League.

        1. Shirley Marie Tilghman, OC FRS is a Canadian scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator.
        2. Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in
        3. Shirley M. Tilghman is a Canadian molecular biologist and the first woman to serve as president of Princeton University (–13).
        4. World-renowned developmental biologist, educator, and university president, Shirley M. Tilghman always has made time to be an advocate for young students and a.

          5. Shirley M. Tilghman

          President
          Professor of Molecular Biology


          Shirley M. Tilghman was elected Princeton University's 19th president on May 5, 2001, and assumed office on June 15, 2001. An exceptional teacher and a world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology, she served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president.

          Tilghman, a native of Canada, received her Honors B.Sc.

          in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. After two years of secondary school teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa, she obtained her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia.

          During postdoctoral studies at the National Institutes of Health, she made a number of groundbreaking discoveries while participating in cloning the first mammalian gene, and then continued to make scientific breakthroughs as an independent investigator at the Institute for Cancer Research in Philadelphia and an adjunct associate professor of human