Jami Valentine

Jami Valentine Miller (born 3 December 1974) is a patent examiner at the United States Patent and Trademark Office. She was the first African American woman to graduate with a PhD in physics from Johns Hopkins University. She created the website AAWIP.com,[1] which celebrates African American Women in Physics.

Jami Valentine Miller
Alma materJohns Hopkins University

Brown University

Florida A&M University
Scientific career
InstitutionsU.S. Patent and Trademark Office
ThesisSpin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films (2006)
Doctoral advisorChia-Ling Chien

Early life and education

Valentine was born in Philadelphia. During junior high she joined the Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering (PRIME) program, which prepared her for a career in physics or mathematics.[2] She attended high school at Murrell Dobbins Vocational School, graduating in 1992.[2] She completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Florida A&M University, which she graduated cum laude in 1996.[3] Whilst at FAMU she was a "Life-Gets-Better" scholar, which allowed her to work as a summer research assistant at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[4] She also worked in the Center for Nonlinear and Nonequilibrim Aeroscience.[5] She moved Brown University for her postgraduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1998.[3] Valentine joined Chia-Ling Chien at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked on spintronics.[3][6] Her research focused on novel rare earth metals for memory applications.[2] She successfully defended her dissertation, "Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films", in 2006.[7]

Career

As a PhD student, Valentine realized that there were not many professors who looked like her.[8] From 1973 to 2012, only 66 black American women earned PhDs in physics, compared to 22,172 white men.[9] She became involved with national efforts to improve diversity in physics.[10] She developed the website AAWIP.com, which honors the contributions of African American women to physics.[8] She has made efforts to meet as many of them as she can.[11] She has worked with the National Society of Black Physicists to increase awareness of underrepresented groups to physics.[12]

She joined United States Patent and Trademark Office as an electrical engineer, working on semiconductor and spintronic memory devices.[13][8] In 2012 she was appointed primary examiner.[8][14]

Honors and awards

She has been an invited speaker at several physics conferences as well as appearing on podcasts.[15] In February 2017 she was honored by the National Society of Black Physicists for distinguished service to the organization.[16] In 2016, she was honored with the Florida A & M University Distinguished Alumni Award.[17] She is an invited plenary speaker for the 2019 Physics Congress where she will address more than 1,500 physics and astronomy students.[18]

References
  1. "AAWIP". aawip.com. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. "Defending Your Graduate Life". Science | AAAS. 2005-09-23. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  3. "Alumni Spotlight Q&A with Jami Valentine, Ph.D." FAMU Forward. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  4. http://www.drjami.com/
  5. "For One New Rattler Ph.D, Life is about to Get Better!". rattlernation.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  6. "People | Nanostructured Materials Lab | Johns Hopkins University". sites.krieger.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  7. "Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films by Jami Valentine | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  8. "Dr. Jami Valentine Honored by the National Society of Black Physicists | Physics | Brown University". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  9. Kohli, Sonali. "In 39 years, US physics doctorates went to 66 black women—and 22,000 white men". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  10. Budil, Kimberly S. (2005). "Women in Physics in the U.S.: A Progress Report". AIP Conference Proceedings. 795. pp. 175–178. doi:10.1063/1.2128320.
  11. "Scientist a pioneer in physics". The Denver Post. 2007-04-22. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  12. "About – AAWIP". aawip.com. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  13. Roberson, Stephen. "Jami Valentine". www.nsbp.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  14. "Employee Profile of Jami M. Valentine — Patent Examiner". www.federalpay.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  15. "Webinar: "Views from the Pipeline: Women of Color in the STEM Professoriate", 4/27, 1:00pm | Ohio State ADVANCE". advance.osu.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  16. "AASWomen Newsletter for February 17, 2017". womeninastronomy.blogspot.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  17. https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2016/05/26/local-famu-grads-honored-famunaa-convention/84988210/
  18. "PhysCon 2019 - Making Waves & Breaking Boundaries". 13 December 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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