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SPEAKER'S BIOGRAPHYDr. Shirley M. TilghmanPresident, Princeton UniversityTilghman becamePrinceton University’s19 th presidentin June 2001. Anexceptional teacher,a world-renownedscholar, and a leader inthe field of molecularbiology, she served onthe Princeton facultyfor 15 years before being named president.Tilghman received her Honors BSc inchemistry from Queen’s University inKingston, Ontario, in 1968 and her PhD inbiochemistry from Temple University inPhiladelphia.During postdoctoral studies at the NationalInstitutes of Health she made a number ofgroundbreaking discoveries while partici-patingin cloning the first mammalian gene. Shecontinued to make scientific breakthroughsas an independent investigator at the Institutefor Cancer Research in Philadelphia and asan adjunct associate professor of humangenetics and biochemistry and biophysics atthe University of Pennsylvania.Tilghman came to Princeton in 1986 asthe Howard A. Prior Professor of the LifeSciences. Two years later she joined theHoward Hughes Medical Institute as aninvestigator. In 1998 she took on additionalresponsibilities as the founding director ofPrinceton’s multi-disciplinary Lewis-SiglerInstitute for Integrative Genomics.A member of the National ResearchCouncil’s committee that set the blueprint forthe US effort in the Human Genome Project,Tilghman was also one of the foundingmembers of the National Advisory Councilof the Human Genome Project Initiative forthe National Institutes of Health.She is renowned not only for her pioneeringresearch, but for her national leadership onbehalf of women in science and for promotingefforts to support the early careers of youngscientists.October 2007From 1993 through 2000 Tilghmanchaired Princeton’s Council on Science andTechnology, which encourages the teaching ofscience and technology to students outside thesciences, and in 1996 she received Princeton’sPresident’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.In 2002 Tilghman was one of the five winnersof the L’Oréal-UNESCO Award for Womenin Science and the following year receivedthe Lifetime Achievement Award from theSociety of Developmental Biology.Tilghman is a member of the AmericanPhilosophical Society, the National Academyof Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, andthe Royal Society of London. She servesas a Trustee of the Jackson Laboratory andthe Carnegie Endowment for InternationalPeace.CELEBRATE THE 20 THANNIVERSARY OF NATIONALCHEMISTRY WEEKThis year’s celebration of National ChemistryWeek, with the theme, “The Many Faces ofChemistry,” will be a very special celebration!2007 marks the 20 th anniversary of NCW.The mission of NCW is to reach the public,particularly students, with positive messagesabout chemistry and to provide a means ofeffectively mobilizing ACS local sections.When former ACS President, GeorgePimentel, conceived the idea of celebratingNational Chemistry Day in 1987, he nevercould have predicted where his idea wouldlead. From a one-day celebration, NationalChemistry Day grew into National ChemistryWeek. From a biennial celebration,the celebration became an annual event in1993. The program has been the recipientof several prestigious public relations andassociation awards.Join with ACS this October 21- 27, in this20 th anniversary year of National ChemistryWeek to celebrate “The Many Faces ofChemistry,” emphasizing the diversity of thediscipline and its practitioners.Page 141