Shirley Anne Jackson '68, PhD '73 was one of five black students who entered in the Class of 1968 and was the first black woman to earn a doctorate at MIT. She went to the National Accelerator Laboratory at Batavia, Ill., for post-doctoral work in elementary particle physics.

For me, an MIT education has proven to be an effective problem-solving background when used in a conscientiously applied program of disciplined work and regular professional activity.

Shirley Jackson, quoted in 'After the Bachelor's Degree,' Massachusetts Institute of Technology: A Place for Womenbrochure, ca. 1973