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Jewel Plummer Cobb papers
- Title
- Jewel Plummer Cobb papers, 1950-2000 (bulk 1960-1990)
- Author
- Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924-
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- Description
- 18.2 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The Jewel Plummer Cobb Papers document Cobb's career as a cancer researcher, professor at several colleges and a college administrator. The collection consists of biographical material including news articles, in addition to correspondence with friends and colleagues and with organizations for which she was a board member. Her scientific career is represented by her Ph.D. dissertation entitled "Mechanics of Pigment Formation" (1950), notes and progress reports on her cancer research, lecture notes, course outlines, and copies of her scientific publications.
- Cobb's administrative career at Douglass College details her accomplishments and the dedication of a math and science building named in her honor. Papers relating to Cobb's career as president of California State University, Fullerton (CSUF) consist of congratulatory letters upon her appointment as president, printed matter and correspondence pertaining to her investiture, news clippings, and press releases about her involvement in numerous and diverse academic activities. Of particular interest are the University's evaluations of Cobb consisting of letters and forms. Other aspects of her position at CSUF are revealed in her appointment calendars (1982-1989), notebooks, her professional review file, and annual progress reports.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Women biologists
- African American college presidents
- Women medical scientists
- Douglass College
- Cancer > Study and teaching > United States
- African American college administrators
- African American women college teachers
- Cancer cells
- Scrapbooks
- Cancer > Research
- California State University, Fullerton
- African American scholars
- Cell physiology
- Women deans (Education)
- Connecticut College
- African American scientists
- African American women scientists
- Biologists > United States
- Cancer > Genetic aspects
- Women college presidents
- Women's colleges > United States
- African Americans > Education (Higher)
- Women in science > United States
- African Americans in medicine
- Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924-
- Sarah Lawrence College
- National Science Foundation (U.S.) > Committee on Minorities and Women in Science
- Speeches
- Melanoma
- Women in medicine
- African American women
- Universities and colleges > United States > Administration
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Speeches.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Cobb, Jewel Plummer
- Jewel Plummer Cobb
- Biography (note)
- Jewel Plummer Cobb was a professor of biology and zoology, and was president of California State University at Fullerton from 1981-1990. She earned a Ph.D. in cellular biology in 1950, and has held professorships at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Connecticut College in New London, Douglass College-Rutgers University, and California State University, Los Angeles.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Cataloged
- Accessioning updated
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- Sc MG 298
- OCLC
- NYPW088000011-A
- Author
- Cobb, Jewel Plummer, 1924-
- Title
- Jewel Plummer Cobb papers, 1950-2000 (bulk 1960-1990)
- Biography
- Jewel Plummer Cobb was a professor of biology and zoology, and was president of California State University at Fullerton from 1981-1990. She earned a Ph.D. in cellular biology in 1950, and has held professorships at New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, Connecticut College in New London, Douglass College-Rutgers University, and California State University, Los Angeles.Dr. Cobb is known for her work in cell physiology, her promotion of the advancement of women in scientific fields, and her activities on behalf of minorities in the science professions. She has published articles on cancer research, the advancement of women in scientific fields as well as the advancement of minorities. Cobb has been the recipient of many awards including the 1999 Achievement in Excellence Award from the Center for Excellence for her contributions to science and education. She has also been a board member of many organizations including the National Science Board, Talladega College, and the National Committee on Women in Science and engineering of the National Academy of Sciences.
- Processing Action
- Accessioned 19910219Cataloged 19910220Accessioning updated 20040614Cataloging updated 20040628Accessioned 19930512Cataloged 19930512Accessioning updated 20040614Cataloging updated 20040614Accessioned 1996Accessioning updated 20040614Cataloged 20040628Accessioned 20040614Cataloged 20041117
- Source
- SCM 91-4SCM 93-1SCM 95-59SCM 98-323.1\a Cobb, Jewel Plummer Gift 199102204.1\a Cobb, Jewel Plummer Gift 1993055.1\a Jewel Plummer Cobb Gift6.1\a Jewel Plummer Cobb Gift
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- Sc MG 298