Jami Valentine

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Jami Valentine Miller
Born (1974-12-03) December 3, 1974 (age 47)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Other namesJami Valentine
Alma materJohns Hopkins University
Brown University
Florida A&M University
Known forJohns Hopkins University's first African-American woman to earn a PhD in Physics and Astronomy; Founder of African American Women in Physics Inc
Scientific career
InstitutionsU.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Thesis"Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films" (2006)
Doctoral advisorChia-Ling Chien
Websitewww.DrJami.com

Jami Valentine Miller (born December 3, 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.

Early life and education[]

Valentine was born in Philadelphia.[2][3] 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.[4] She attended high school at Murrell Dobbins Vocational School, graduating in 1992.[4] She completed a bachelor's degree in physics at Florida A&M University, which she graduated cum laude in 1996.[5] 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.[6] She also worked in the Center for Nonlinear and Nonequilibrium Aeroscience.[7] She moved Brown University[clarification needed] for her postgraduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1998.[5] Valentine studied under Professor Chia-Ling Chien[who?] at Johns Hopkins University, where she worked on spintronics.[5][8] Her research focused on novel rare earth metals for memory applications.[4] She successfully defended her dissertation, "Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films", in 2006.[9]

Career[]

As a PhD student, Valentine realized that there were not many professors who looked like her.[10] From 1973 to 2012, only 66 black American women earned PhDs in physics, compared to 22,172 white men.[11] She became involved with national efforts to improve diversity in physics.[12] She developed the website AAWIP.com, which honors the contributions of African American women to physics.[10] She has made efforts to meet as many of them as she can.[13] She has worked with the National Society of Black Physicists to increase awareness of underrepresented groups to physics.[14]

Valentine joined the United States Patent and Trademark Office as an electrical engineer, working on semiconductor and spintronic memory devices.[15][10] In 2012 she was appointed primary examiner.[10][16]

Honors and awards[]

Valentine has been an invited speaker at several physics conferences as well as appearing on podcasts.[17] In February 2017 she was honored by the National Society of Black Physicists for distinguished service to the organization.[18] In 2016, she was honored with the Florida A & M University Distinguished Alumni Award.[19] She was an invited plenary speaker for the 2019 Physics Congress where she was to address more than 1,500 physics and astronomy students.[20]

References[]

  1. ^ "AAWIP". aawip.com. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  2. ^ "Jami Valentine Miller Inspires the Next Generation". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  3. ^ "Dr. First Jami Valentine Miller". Society of Physics Students. 2019-02-26. Retrieved 2021-08-02.
  4. ^ a b c "Defending Your Graduate Life". Science | AAAS. 2005-09-23. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  5. ^ a b c "Alumni Spotlight Q&A with Jami Valentine, Ph.D." FAMU Forward. 2015-11-25. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  6. ^ "Jami Valentine Miller, PhD". drjami.com.
  7. ^ "For One New Rattler Ph.D, Life is about to Get Better!". rattlernation.blogspot.co.uk. 3 May 2006. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  8. ^ "People | Nanostructured Materials Lab | Johns Hopkins University". sites.krieger.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  9. ^ "Spin Polarization Measurements of Rare Earth Thin Films by Jami Valentine | Waterstones". www.waterstones.com. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  10. ^ a b c d "Dr. Jami Valentine Honored by the National Society of Black Physicists". Brown University. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  11. ^ Kohli, Sonali. "In 39 years, US physics doctorates went to 66 black women—and 22,000 white men". Quartz. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  12. ^ Budil, Kimberly S. (2005). "Women in Physics in the U.S.: A Progress Report". AIP Conference Proceedings. Vol. 795. pp. 175–178. doi:10.1063/1.2128320.
  13. ^ "Scientist a pioneer in physics". The Denver Post. 2007-04-22. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  14. ^ "About – AAWIP". aawip.com. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  15. ^ Roberson, Stephen. "Jami Valentine". www.nsbp.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  16. ^ "Employee Profile of Jami M. Valentine — Patent Examiner". www.federalpay.org. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  17. ^ "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.
  18. ^ "AASWomen Newsletter for February 17, 2017". womeninastronomy.blogspot.co.uk. 17 February 2017. Retrieved 2018-05-01.
  19. ^ Dobson, Byron (May 26, 2016). "Local FAMU grads to be honored at FAMUNAA convention". Tallahassee Democrat.
  20. ^ "PhysCon 2019 – Making Waves & Breaking Boundaries". 13 December 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
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