Mareena Robinson Snowden

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Mareena Katherine Robinson Snowden is the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1]

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Education

Snowden enrolled at Florida A&M University as a business major. [2]

In Spring 2011, Snowden was graduated from Florida A&M University as Mareena Robinson, with a B.S. Degree in Physics. [3]

In 2017, Snowden was graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Ph.D., nuclear science and engineering, as Mareena K. Robinson-Snowden, [4] 30 years old, [5] becoming the first self-identified [6] American black woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the MIT, [2] [1] walking across the commencement stage on 8 June 2018, after 11 years of post-secondary study. [5] .

Career

Snowden worked as a National Nuclear Security Administration Graduate Fellow in the Office of Nuclear Energy at the US Department of Energy before serving as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. [7] [8] [9]

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  6. Self-identified ethnicity and racial identity were first recorded as part of MIT student records in 1980
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