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Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, a world-renowned molecular biologist, took on the complex topic of modern genetics and race Tuesday, March 9, in the annual James Baldwin Lecture sponsored by Princeton's Center for African American Studies. In a speech titled "The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Era," she also traced science's past failures to grapple in a nondiscriminatory manner with racial classifications. "Only by spreading conversations about race throughout the entire University can we be sure that every student who passes through our gates will encounter and grapple with one of the most vexing issues facing this country, and indeed the rest of the world," she said.
photo: Princeton University, Office of Communications, Brian Wilson |