Three honorary degrees for Widnall

Tech Talk – April 7, 2008

MIT Institute Professor Sheila Widnall will receive three honorary degrees this spring. Between May and June, the University of Oxford in England, Claremont Graduate University in California and Northwestern University in Illinois will present her with honorary doctor of science degrees. Widnall '61, SM '61, SCD '64, was MIT's first woman professor of engineering. Between 1993 and 1997, she was secretary of the U.S. Air Force.