Biography:Cynthia Roberta McIntyre
Cynthia R. McIntyre | |
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| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) San Antonio, Texas |
| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Thesis | "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter A. Wolff |
Dr. Cynthia R. McIntyre (born 1960) is a theoretical physicist and former Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness. Her research focuses on the electronic and optical properties of semiconductor heterostructures.[1] She was the second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2]
Biography
McIntyre was born in 1960[1] grew up in San Antonio, Texas, the only child of two school teachers.[3] She received her PhD in physics in 1990 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. Her research focus is condensed matter physics, and she completed a dissertation "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" advised by Peter A. Wolff.[4] When she was a graduate student, McIntyre co-founded the National Conference of Black Physics Students and organized the first NCBPS conference.[5] For this work, she became one of the first recipients of the MIT's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1995.[3] She continues to be involved[6] in this organization.
McIntyre then went on to serve as the Commonwealth Professor of Physics at George Mason University.[7]
Career
- Chief of Staff to the President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1999–2007.
- Governing Board of the American Physical Society (1998-2000).
- Board of Trustees for Spelman College (2003-2009).
- External Advisory Committee of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University (2005 to present).
- Senior Vice President at the Council on Competitiveness
- She contributed to the development of policies aiding the use of high-performance computing (HPC) in the private sector for economic and competitive gains.
Awards
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cynthia R. McIntyre - Physicist of the African Diaspora". http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/mcintyre-cynthiar.html.
- ↑ "Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) | MIT Black History" (in en). https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/young-gifted-and-black-black-women-mit-1994.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Tousignant, Marylou (1995-02-11). "HELPING BLACK STUDENTS PICTURE THEMSELVES AS PHYSICISTS" (in en-US). Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/02/11/helping-black-students-picture-themselves-as-physicists/1d7b8f55-60c2-401d-833b-9a71c142f33d/.
- ↑ McIntyre, Cynthia R.. "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors" (in en). https://mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?&context=L&vid=01MIT_INST:MIT&search_scope=MIT_theses&tab=all&docid=alma990005237250106761.
- ↑ "Jackson to give keynote talk at student physics conference". http://news.mit.edu/1997/jackson-0226.
- ↑ McIntyre, Dr Cynthia R. (2000-04-06). "Report of the 1997 National Conference of Black Physics Students" (in English). https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc707874/m1/3/.
- ↑ "Jackson to give keynote talk at student physics conference" (in en). https://news.mit.edu/1997/jackson-0226.
- ↑ "Cynthia McIntyre" (in en-US). https://www.hpcwire.com/people-watch-2013/cynthia-mcintyre/.
- ↑ "Cynthia McIntyre". http://www.hpcwire.com/people-watch-2013/cynthia-mcintyre/.
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