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ber and former Chair of the Senate Com- mittee on Small Business and Entrepre- neurship. Additionally, she sits on the Senate Committee on Commerce, Sci- ence, and Transportation and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Senator Snowe is widely-regarded as
one of our nation’s leading moderates. Last year, Time magazine listed her as one of the Top 10 Health-Care Reform Play- ers. In 2008, Esquire magazine cited Senator Snowe as one of the Ten Best Members of Congress – and, in 2006, Time named her one of America’s 10 Best Senators.
Shirley M. Tilghman Elected Princeton University’s 19th
president on May 5, 2001, Shirley M. Tilghman is an exceptional teacher, world-renowned scholar and leader in the field of molecular biology. She served on the Princeton faculty for 15 years before being named president. She has also pro- vided national leadership on issues relat- ing to higher education, federal science policy, and women in science. A native of Canada, Tilghman received
her Honors B.Sc. in chemistry from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Tem- ple University. During her scientific ca- reer as a mammalian developmental ge- neticist, she studied the way in which genes are organized in the genome and regulated during early development. A member of the National Research Coun- cil’s committee that set the blueprint for the United States effort in the Human Ge- nome Project, she also was one of the founding members of the National Advi- sory Council of the Human Genome Proj- ect for the National Institutes of Health. Tilghman was appointed an inves- tigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in 1988, and in 1998 was named the founding director of Princeton’s mul- tidisciplinary Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics. As Princeton’s president, she has overseen a significant expansion of the University’s residential college system, the creation of a neurosci- ence institute, and a major new commit- ment to the creative and performing arts, among other initiatives. Tilghman is the recipient of numerous
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honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Developmen- tal Biology, the Genetics Society of Amer- ica Medal, and the L’Oreal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science. She is a member of the American Philosophical Society, The National Academy of Sci- ences, and the Royal Society of Lon- don. She serves as a trustee of the Carne- gie Endowment for International Peace and the King Abdullah University of Sci- ence and Technology, and as a director of Google Inc.
Thelma Golden Currently serving as Director and Chief
Curator of Harlem’s Studio Museum, Thelma Golden began her career at the Museum in 1987 before joining the Whit- ney Museum of American Art in 1988. In a decade at the Whitney, she organized numerous groundbreaking exhibitions in- cluding the 1993 Biennial and Black Male and served as Director of the Whitney Museum at Altria. She returned to the Studio Museum in 2000 as Deputy Direc- tor for Exhibitions and Programs, and was named Director and Chief Curator in 2005. While at the Studio Museum, Gold- en has organized many notable exhibi- tions including Chris Ofili: Afro Muses 1995-2005, Black Romantic, Freestyle, Frequency, Glenn Ligon: Stranger, Mar- tin Puryear: The Cane Project and Isaac Julien: Vagabondia. Golden regularly speaks at institutions
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both nationally and internationally, includ- ing the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and the Royal College of Art, London. In 2009 she spoke at the TED Conference (Technology, Entertain- ment, Design) in Palm Springs, CA. Golden has held visiting faculty positions at various colleges and universities, such as Yale, Columbia, Cornell and Bard. Ad- ditionally, she has served as part of fund- ing and selection panels for many organi- zations and foundations such as the Pew Charitable Trust and the National Endow- ment for the Arts. She is the 1997 recipi- ent of the Peter Norton Family Foundation Curator Grant and was named a 2008 Hen- ry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute. Golden holds a B.A. in Art History and African-American Studies from Smith College and honorary doctorates from the City College of New York, San Francisco Art Institute, Smith College, and Moore College of Art and Design.
About Barnard College The idea was bold for its time. Found-
ed in 1889, Barnard was the only college in New York City, and one of the few in the nation, where women could receive the same rigorous and challenging educa- tion available to men. Today, Barnard is the most sought-after college for women and remains dedicated to the education of strong, independent-minded women who change the world and the way we think about it.
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