JACKSON TO HEAD RENSSELAER
TROY, N.Y. — Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, chair of the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission has been named the new president of Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute.
Jackson, a theoretical physicist, was the first African American to
earn a full professorship in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT). She also carries the distinction of being the first
African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics, which she completed
at MIT in 1973.
BOWIE STATE PRESIDENT RESIGNS, INTERIM HEAD CHOSEN
BOWIE, Md. — The board of regents of the University of Maryland
accepted the resignation earlier this month of Bowie State University’s
president, Dr. Nathanael Pollard, who had been criticized for poor
financial management by auditors.
Pollard’s interim replacement is Dr. Wendell M. Holloway, a member
of the University System Board of Trustees. He earned his bachelor’s
degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, and his master’s and doctorate
degrees in public administration from the University of Southern
California. Holloway will begin his new duties on Jan. 1
System officials said the regents expect to undertake a national
search for a permanent replacement, which they hope to complete within
six months.
