Elizabeth W. Jones

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Elizabeth W. Jones
Born(1939-03-08)March 8, 1939
DiedJune 11, 2008(2008-06-11) (aged 69)
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Washington
Known forWork on yeast genetics
AwardsGenetics Society of America's Excellence in Education Award (2007)
Scientific career
FieldsGenetics
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Thesis A comparative study of two adenine loci in Saccharomyces cerevisiae  (1964)
Academic advisorsHerschel L. Roman

Elizabeth Winifred Jones (March 8, 1939 – June 11, 2008) was an American geneticist and professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).[1]

Education

Jones earned her

postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[1]

Career

Jones joined the faculty of CMU in 1974, after spending five years on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University. She served as president of the Genetics Society of America (GSA) in 1987 and as editor-in-chief of its journal, Genetics, from 1996 to 2008.[3] In 2002, she was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor.[2] When she died in 2008, she was a University Professor, head of the Department of Biological Sciences, and Frederick A. Schwertz Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences at CMU.[3]

Honors and awards

Jones was awarded a

American Academy of Microbiology, and the American Academy of Sciences.[2] She also received the Robert Doherty Prize for Excellence in Education and the Julius Ashkin Teaching Award from CMU's Mellon College of Science.[1]

Posthumous recognition

After her death in 2008, Jones was awarded the GSA's Lifetime Achievement Award in Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology. The GSA also renamed its Excellence in Education Award the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education in her memory.[5] CMU also created the Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research in Experimental or Computational Biology, in honor of Jones' support for undergraduate research.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c Fuoco, Michael A. (2008-06-16). "Obituary: Elizabeth W. Jones / Genetics professor at CMU". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  2. ^ a b c "June 13: Obituary: Head of Biological Sciences Elizabeth Jones Will Be Remembered For Her Mentorship, Research". Carnegie Mellon University. 2008-06-13. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  3. ^ a b c "The Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education". Genetics Society of America. Archived from the original on 2019-03-31. Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  4. John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
    . Retrieved 2019-03-08.
  5. PMID 19322900
    .
  6. ^ "Biological Sciences Awards & Honors". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2019-03-08.

Further reading

  • Connelly, Tracey DePellegrin; Lemmon, Sandra K.; Mitchell, Aaron P.;
    PMID 19233838
    .
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