Guilford College Magazine - December 2019

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Astrophysicist and Quaker to Receive Honorary Degree AT COMMENCEMENT on May 16, Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell will add yet another credit to her achievements: honorary degree recipient from

P H O T O C O U R T E S Y O F R O YA L S O C I E T Y O F E D I N B U R G H

Guilford College. Born in Northern Ireland, she attended The Mount School, a Quaker girls’ boarding school in York, England, where she discovered an aptitude for physics. She graduated from the University of Glasgow with a Bachelor of Science in Natural Philosophy (Physics) and obtained a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. While a postgraduate research student at Cambridge in 1967, Jocelyn co-discovered the first radio pulsars. This finding is credited as one of the most significant achievements of the

Empire for services to Astronomy and promoted to Dame Commander in 2007. Currently, Jocelyn is Chancellor of the University of Dundee, Visiting Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. Since her time at The Mount School, Jocelyn has been an active Quaker and served as Clerk to the sessions of Britain Yearly Meeting. In 2013, she gave a lecture which was published in a book titled A Quaker Astronomer Reflects: Can a Scientist Also Be Religious?, where she addressed the merger of science and faith. Jocelyn lives out Guilford Core Values. In 2018, she was

20th century and was awarded the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics.

awarded the Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental

In addition to multiple visiting professorships at renowned

Physics, and she decided to use the prize money to create

universities across the globe, Jocelyn has served as President of

the Bell Burnell Graduate Scholarship Fund to help female,

the Royal Astronomical Society and the Institute of Physics. In

minority and refugee students to become Physics researchers.

1999, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British

Commencement will take place on Founders Lawn.

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INTRODUCING THE ALUMNI & PARENTS VOLUNTEER PROGRAM

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REMEMBERING GUILFORDIANS

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COMMUNITY NOTES

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ASTROPHYSICIST AND QUAKER TO RECEIVE HONORARY DEGREE

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MAKING AN IMPACT: GUILFORD COLLEGE'S PHYSICS REUNION

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JENNIFER KING ’06: TACKLING STEREOTYPES AND PUSHING BOUNDARIES

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ATHLETICS REPORT: INTRODUCING NEW TEAMS

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AWESOME ALUMNI: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

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A REJUVENATED CAMPUS

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LEADING BY EXAMPLE

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NEW FUND OPENS UP INTERNSHIPS FOR STUDENTS

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ENLIGHTENING EXPERIENCES ABROAD

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REIMAGINING EDUCATION: INTRODUCING THE GUILFORD EDGE

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WALKING THE WALK

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WITH HONORS

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE. EVERY GIFT. EVERY YEAR.

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PRESIDENT'S INTERNATIONAL PHILANTHROPY COUNCIL ESTABLISHED AS NEW LEADERSHIP GROUP

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TANNENBAUM-STERNBERGER FOUNDATION: A GIFT THAT KEEPS ON GIVING

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WE WANT YOUR HELP TELLING THE GUILFORD STORY!

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CLASS OF 1969 CELEBRATES 50TH ANNIVERSARY

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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT

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HOMECOMING & FAMILY WEEKEND

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