The HistoryMakers video oral history with Joanne Berger-Sweeney.

Neurobiologist and academic administrator Joanne Berger-Sweeney was born in 1958. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1979, she received her M.P.H. degree in environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981; and her Ph.D. degree in neurotoxicology from the Joh...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Berger-Sweeney, Joanne (Interviewee)
Crowe, Larry F. (Interviewer)
Hickey, Matthew (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Berger-Sweeney, Joanne > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Neurobiologist > Academic Administrator.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 29 min., 45 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Joanne Berger-Sweeney
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Neurobiologist and academic administrator Joanne Berger-Sweeney was born in 1958. After graduating from Wellesley College in 1979, she received her M.P.H. degree in environmental health sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 1981; and her Ph.D. degree in neurotoxicology from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in 1989. Following her graduate training, she worked for two years at the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, a multidisciplinary public health research institution in France. Berger-Sweeney then joined Wellesley College in 1991 as the Allene Lummis Russell Professor in Neuroscience and was named associate dean in 2004. She directed the Society for Neuroscience's Minority Neuroscience Fellowship Program. In 2010, Berger-Sweeney was appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts University. Berger-Sweeney was also elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served as the president of Trinity College.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:03:29:45
Credits:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Participant or Performer:
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Boston, Massachusetts 2013 April 23.
Source of Description:
Vendor-supplied metadata.