Shirley Tilghman
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Shirley M. Tilghman OC FRS |
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Shirley Tilghman (Photo: Jane Gitschier)
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| 19th President of Princeton University | |
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In office June 15, 2001 – July 1, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | Harold Tafler Shapiro |
| Succeeded by | Christopher L. Eisgruber |
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Shirley Marie Caldwell 17 September 1946 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Spouse(s) | Joseph Tilghman (1970-1983) |
| Children | Rebecca Alexander |
| Residence | Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Queen's University Temple University |
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Molecular biologist University administrator |
| Religion | Anglican (at birth) Atheist |
Shirley Marie Tilghman, OC FRS (/ˈtɪlmən/; née Caldwell; born 17 September 1946) is a North American scholar in molecular biology and an academic administrator. She is now a professor of molecular biology and public policy and president emerita of Princeton University.
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. Tilghman was also the first biologist to hold the Princeton presidency. She is the fifth "foreign born" President of Princeton, and the second academic born in Canada to be elected to the position.
A leader in the field of molecular biology, Tilghman was a member of the Princeton faculty for fifteen years before being named president. She has returned to the Princeton faculty as a professor of molecular biology. In that capacity, she has returned to the Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics as a faculty member; while she is not currently engaged in research, Tilghman actively advises undergraduates in their independent research, including the senior thesis for seniors.
Tilghman also continues to hold leadership positions in the global scientific community. She was the 2015 president of the ASCB.
Tilghman was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She graduated from Kelvin High School in Winnipeg, Manitoba and received her Honours B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1968. She was a secondary school teacher in Sierra Leone, West Africa, in the Canadian University Services Overseas (CUSO) Program. Tilghman earned her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania under Richard W. Hanson. Tilghman was Hanson's first graduate student. Her PhD Dissertation was entitled "The Hormonal Regulation of Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase."
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