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The First African-American Woman to Receive a Doctorate from M.I.T. Champions the Dividends of Education

The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., came to that job in 1999 with a stellar resume. Besides being the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Clinton administration and was a physicist at Bell Laboratories and other notable research institutions

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The First African-American Woman to Receive a Doctorate from M.I.T. Champions the Dividends of Education

The president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., came to that job in 1999 with a stellar resume. Besides being the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirley Ann Jackson headed the U.S

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Fab.com Presents The Fast Company U.S. Design Pop-Up Shop

One of the great perks of working at a media company is being the first to learn about new products, try them out, photograph them and--this is the hard part--send them back to the manufacturer. These goods then appear in the magazine and on the website, with the implied notion that you might want to buy them. You know, in a store

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