Alumna Honored as Technology Leader
Bridgette (Blackman) Shannon was honored as a Modern Day Technology Leader at the 25th Black Engineer of the Year Awards and STEM Global Competitiveness Conference in Washington, D.C., Feb. 17-19.
Shannon is a development scientist for Corning Inc. and one of three employees of the company receiving the honor. The award recognizes “bright, young, up-and-coming women and men who are shaping the future of engineering, science, and technology”.
She is from Little Rock and holds a bachelor’s degree from Henderson State University. She graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2007 with a doctorate in chemistry under the direction of Xiaogang Peng.
Contacts
Jennifer Sims, editor
Chemistry and biochemistry
575-5198,
jssims@uark.edu
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