Trachette Jackson

Trachette Levon Jackson (born July 24, 1972) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology.[1] She uses many different approaches, including continuous and discrete mathematical models, numerical simulations, and experiments to study tumor growth and treatment. Specifically, her lab is interested in "molecular pathways associated with intratumoral angiogenesis", "cell-tissue interactions associated with tumor-induced angiogenesis," and "tumor heterogeneity and cancer stem cells".[2]

Trachette Jackson
BornJuly 24, 1972
Monroe, Louisiana
Alma materArizona State University,
University of Washington
Spouse(s)Patrick Nelson
ChildrenTwo children
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan,
University of Minnesota,
Duke University

Education and career

Jackson's parents were in the military and traveled frequently through her childhood; as a teenager, she lived in Mesa, Arizona. There, in a summer calculus course, her talent for mathematics brought her to the attention of Arizona State University mathematics professor Joaquín Bustoz, Jr. She went on to undergraduate studies at ASU, originally intending to study engineering, but steered to mathematics by Bustoz.[3] From there, her interest in pure math developed into an interest in mathematical biology when she attended a talk by her future PhD advisor, James D. Murray, on the mathematics of pattern formation and, "how the leopard got its spots."[4] She graduated in 1994, and earned her master's and Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 1996 and 1998.[5][6] After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Environmental Protection Agency, and Duke University, she joined the Michigan faculty in 2000, and was promoted to full professor in 2008.[7]

Awards and recognition

She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2003,[8] becoming the second African-American woman after Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics. She won the James S. McDonnell 21st Century Scientist Award in 2005, and won the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2010.[9] In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.[10] Jackson's work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[11]

References
  1. Seymour, Add, Jr. (January 10, 2008). "Mathematics: Connecting the Dots – Trachette Jackson". Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008. Diverse Magazine. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  2. "The Jackson Cancer Modeling Group". University of Michigan Website. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  3. Castillo-Chavez, Carlos (July–August 2010). "Teacher, Research Mathematician, Mentor: A Groundbreaking Career in Computational and Mathematical Biology" (PDF). Expanding our Scope. SIAM News. 43 (6).
  4. Lamb, Evelyn (October 9, 2013). "Mathematics, Live: A Conversation with Victoria Booth and Trachette Jackson". Roots of Unity. Scientific American. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  5. "Trachette Jackson". TheHistoryMakers. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  6. Trachette Jackson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Curriculum vitae, March 28, 2011, retrieved 2015-08-03.
  8. Past Fellows, Sloan Foundation, retrieved 2019-09-09
  9. "Trachette L. Jackson: "Mathematical Models of Tumor Angiogenesis"". The Michael E. Moody Lecture Series. Harvey Mudd College. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
  10. "2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program". awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/. Association for Women in Mathematics. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  11. "Trachette Jackson". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
  • Williams, Scott W. "Trachette Jackson". Black Women in Mathematics. State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics.
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