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Vannevar Bush Award recipient Shirley Ann Jackson heads Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Shirley Ann Jackson receives the 2007 Vannevar Bush Award for her lifetime of scientific, educational and public policy achievements. The award honors her work in theoretical physics, her leadership in workforce and global energy security issues, and for revamping the nation's oldest civilian technology university (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
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