Trachette Jackson
Appearance
Trachette Jackson | |
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Born | July 24, 1972 Monroe, Louisiana |
Alma mater | Arizona State University, University of Washington |
Spouse | Patrick Nelson |
Children | Two children |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Mathematics |
Institutions | University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Duke University |
Notable students | Kim Jae Kyoung |
Trachette Levon Jackson (born July 24, 1972) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the
heterogeneity and cancer stem cells."[2]
Education and career
Jackson's parents were in the military and traveled frequently through her childhood; as a teenager, she lived in
mathematical biology when she attended a talk by her future PhD advisor, James D. Murray, on the mathematics of pattern formation and "how the leopard got its spots."[4] She graduated in 1994, and she earned her MS and PhD at the University of Washington in 1996 and 1998.[5][6]
After postdoctoral research at the Environmental Protection Agency, and Duke University, she joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2000, and she was promoted to full professor in 2008.[7]
Awards and recognition
She was awarded a
Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2010.[10] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[11] Jackson's work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[12] She was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for innovative contributions to mathematical modeling in cancer biology and for the advancement of underrepresented minorities in science".[13] In 2021, she was awarded the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship at the University of Michigan,[14] in recognition of her "extraordinary commitment to increasing opportunities for girls, women, and underrepresented minority students in STEM, through her teaching and leadership."[15]
References
- ^ Seymour, Add Jr. (January 10, 2008). "Mathematics: Connecting the Dots – Trachette Jackson". Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008. Diverse Magazine. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ^ "The Jackson Cancer Modeling Group". University of Michigan Website. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ^ Castillo-Chavez, Carlos (July–August 2010). "Teacher, Research Mathematician, Mentor: A Groundbreaking Career in Computational and Mathematical Biology" (PDF). Expanding our Scope. SIAM News. 43 (6).
- ^ Lamb, Evelyn (October 9, 2013). "Mathematics, Live: A Conversation with Victoria Booth and Trachette Jackson". Roots of Unity. Scientific American. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ^ "Trachette Jackson". TheHistoryMakers. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ^ Trachette Jackson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Curriculum Vitae, October 25, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- ^ Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 2019-09-09
- ^ "Funded Grants". James S. McDonnell Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-05.
- ^ "Trachette L. Jackson: "Mathematical Models of Tumor Angiogenesis"". The Michael E. Moody Lecture Series. Harvey Mudd College. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ^ "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
- ^ "Trachette Jackson". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
- ^ "SIAM Announces Class of 2021 Fellows". SIAM News. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. March 31, 2021. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ "Our U-M UDSTPs | U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
- ^ "Trachette L. Jackson | U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
External links
- Williams, Scott W. "Trachette Jackson". Black Women in Mathematics. State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics.
- Meet a mathematician! Video Interview