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.
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