Diann Jordan will speak at Judson College on March 2 on the theme “The History of Black Women in Science.”
An Alabama native, Jordan has a doctorate in environmental soil microbiology. She worked for more than 10 years as a professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where she was the first woman faculty member ever hired in the department of soil and atmospheric sciences and the first black woman to receive tenure in a research science department at the university. She was also likely the first black woman to earn a doctorate in soil science at Michigan State University in East Lansing.
Jordan’s presentation is part of the Alabama Humanities Foundation Road Scholars speaker program.
The lecture will be in the Charlotte Lowder Science Building’s Adams-Armstrong Lecture Hall at 5 p.m. For more information, call 334-683-5179.
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