Shelia Nash-Stevenson

Shelia Nash-Stevenson is an American physicist and engineer. Nash-Stevenson was the first Black woman in Alabama to earn a PhD in physics. She was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in physics at the Alabama A&M University in 1994. During her postgraduate studies she had two children.She is three-times magna cum laude. At the time she was one of fewer than twenty African-American women with a physics PhD in the United States. Quotes I am currently a member of the Youth Motivation Task Force Advisory Board at Alabama A&M University (AAMU). To be honest, physics was one of my most difficult subjects, but I was impressed by my college physics professor, Dr. M.C. George. SPORT is the first project I have worked that I will be able to see from beginning to end, so right now, I am focused on assuring that it will be successful. Eight years after starting the Ph.D., while working full time, giving birth to two children, staying active in my church and public service organization, and keeping my husband happy enough not to leave me, I finished my Ph.D. in Physics making me the first African American Female in the State of Alabama to earn a Ph.D. in Physics. External links Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:People from Lawrence County, Alabama Category:Alabama A&M University alumni Category:NASA people Category:American women engineers Category:African-American engineers Category:School board members in Alabama