New AAAS President Emphasizes Science as Public Service
February 22, 2018
February 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- The American Association for the Advancement of Science issued the following news release:
Very early on, Margaret Hamburg learned two important lessons about science. Her mother, a noted psychiatrist who was the first African American woman to be admitted to Vassar College and to graduate from the Yale University School of Medicine, had persevered through a difficult childhood after her surgeon father died and Jim Crow laws prevented her family from inheritin . . .
Very early on, Margaret Hamburg learned two important lessons about science. Her mother, a noted psychiatrist who was the first African American woman to be admitted to Vassar College and to graduate from the Yale University School of Medicine, had persevered through a difficult childhood after her surgeon father died and Jim Crow laws prevented her family from inheritin . . .