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Students celebrate after receiving their honors cords fromacademic dean Christopher Kimball at the HonorsConvocation on Friday, April 30.The Augsburg Chamber Orchestra performs at the Commencement concert onFriday, April 30, which featured solos by each of the four 2004 Concerto Ariawinners: Miya Kunin ’04, violin; Maja Lisa FritzHuspen ’04, soprano; Nicholas White’05, bass; and Keely Holcomb ’04, soprano.DR. SHIRLEY ANN JACKSON DELIVERS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSA graduate pays homage to her home state bytaping a cutout of Texas to her mortarboard.Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in NewYork, spoke at the 2004 Augsburg College Commencement ceremony Saturday,May 1. It is said that Jackson has a “career distinguished by many historic firsts.”Jackson, a theoretical physicist, holds a Ph.D. in theoretical elementary particlephysics from M.I.T. and an S.B. in physics from M.I.T. She is the first African-American woman to receive a doctorate from M.I.T., and is one of the first twoAfrican-American women to receive a doctorate in physics in the United States.Jackson is also the first African-American to become a commissioner of the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and is now the first woman to lead a nationalresearch university.Jackson has held senior positions in government, as chairperson of the U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC); in industry and research, as a theoreticalphysicist at the former AT&T Bell Laboratories; and in academe as a professor atRutgers University. While at the NRC, Jackson represented the United States as adelegate to the General Conference of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna,Austria.Among the number of professional organizationsJackson belongs to, she is president of the AmericanAssociation for the Advancement of Science and amember of the National Academy of Engineering.She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Artsand Sciences, and the American Physical Society.Visit formore information about Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson.Barbara Lehmann, assistant professor of social work, hugs a student during theprocession from Foss Center to Melby Hall.28Spring/Summer 2004