Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University
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Jami Valentine was born December 3rd, 1974 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. While at the J.R. Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration school, she was selected for participation in the Philadelphia Regional Introduction for Minorities to Engineering (PRIME.) In 1992 she graduated in the top 10% of her class from the Murrell Dobbins Area Vocational–Technical High School with a concentration in computer programming. She attained higher SAT scores than any student from her school in the preceding five year period. She was subsequently offered the Life–Gets–Better full academic scholarship to Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee Florida. The Life–Gets–Better scholarship afforded her the opportunity to work at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory each summer of her undergraduate years. While at FAMU she was a student research assistant in the Center for Nonlinear and Nonequilibrim Aeroscience. She graduated cum laud in 1996. Jami went on to Brown University in Rhode Island, where she received the Brown University Fellowship as well as the Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship. While at Brown she worked with Professor James Valles. She was awarded the Sc.M. in Physics in 1998. She also earned a certificate in teaching from the H. W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Jami went on to the department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, where she worked in experimental condensed matter physics, under the guidance of Professor C.L. Chien. She was awarded the M.S in 2004 and the Ph.D. in 2006. Her research interests center around magneto–electronic materials and devices. Jami is the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics from the Johns Hopkins University, and the second in the state of Maryland. | |||||
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