Cynthia Roberta McIntyre
{{short description|Theoretical physicist}}
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| name = Cynthia R. McIntyre
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1960}}
| birth_place = San Antonio, Texas
| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology
| thesis_title = "New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors"
| thesis_url = https://mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=01MIT_INST:MIT&search_scope=MIT_theses&tab=all&docid=alma990005237250106761
| thesis_year = 1990
| doctoral_advisor = Peter A. Wolff
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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.{{Cite web |title=Cynthia R. McIntyre - Physicist of the African Diaspora |url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/mcintyre-cynthiar.html |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.math.buffalo.edu}} She was the second Black woman to receive a PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |title=Young, Gifted, and Black: Black Women at MIT (1994) {{!}} MIT Black History |url=https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/young-gifted-and-black-black-women-mit-1994 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=www.blackhistory.mit.edu |language=en}}
Biography
McIntyre was born in 1960 grew up in San Antonio, Texas, the only child of two school teachers.{{Cite news|last=Tousignant|first=Marylou|date=1995-02-11|title=HELPING BLACK STUDENTS PICTURE THEMSELVES AS PHYSICISTS|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1995/02/11/helping-black-students-picture-themselves-as-physicists/1d7b8f55-60c2-401d-833b-9a71c142f33d/|access-date=2020-06-10|issn=0190-8286}} 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.{{Cite web |last=McIntyre |first=Cynthia R. |title=New models of magnetic interactions for bound magnetic polarons in dilute magnetic semiconductors |url=https://mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?&context=L&vid=01MIT_INST:MIT&search_scope=MIT_theses&tab=all&docid=alma990005237250106761 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com |language=en}} When she was a graduate student, McIntyre co-founded the National Conference of Black Physics Students and organized the first NCBPS conference.{{Cite web|title=Jackson to give keynote talk at student physics conference|url=http://news.mit.edu/1997/jackson-0226|access-date=2020-06-10|website=MIT News}} For this work, she became one of the first recipients of the MIT's [http://diversity.mit.edu/mlk-programs/mlk-leadership-award Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award] in 1995. She continues to be involved{{Cite web|last=McIntyre|first=Dr Cynthia R.|date=2000-04-06|title=Report of the 1997 National Conference of Black Physics Students|url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc707874/m1/3/|access-date=2020-06-10|website=1997 National Conference of Black Physics Students, Cambridge, MA (US), 02/26/1997|language=English}} in this organization.
McIntyre then went on to serve as the Commonwealth Professor of Physics at George Mason University.{{Cite web |title=Jackson to give keynote talk at student physics conference |url=https://news.mit.edu/1997/jackson-0226 |access-date=2022-11-28 |website=MIT News {{!}} Massachusetts Institute of Technology |language=en}}
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
- [http://www.hpcwire.com/people-watch-2013/cynthia-mcintyre/ HPCWire]'s People to Watch in 2013.{{Cite web | url=http://www.hpcwire.com/people-watch-2013/cynthia-mcintyre/ | title=Cynthia McIntyre}}
- MIT's Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award in 1995.
References
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External links
- [https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/archive/young-gifted-and-black-black-women-mit-1994 Video: "Young, Gifted, and Black," MIT interview featuring McIntyre]
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Category:Theoretical physicists
Category:American women scientists
Category:Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Category:21st-century American women
Category:African-American physicists
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