Trachette Jackson
{{short description|American mathematician}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Trachette Jackson
| image =
| caption =
| birth_date = July 24, 1972
| birth_place = Monroe, Louisiana
| field = Mathematical oncology
| work_institution = University of Michigan,
University of Minnesota,
Duke University
| alma_mater = University of Washington (Ph.D.)
Arizona State University
| thesis_title = Mathematical Models in Two-Step Cancer Chemotherapy
| thesis_url =
| thesis_year = 1998
| doctoral_advisor = James D. Murray
| notable_students = Kim Jae Kyoung
}}
Trachette Levon Jackson (born July 24, 1972) is an American mathematician who is a professor of mathematics at the University of Michigan and is known for work in mathematical oncology.{{cite magazine| url=http://diverseeducation.com/article/10472/| title=Mathematics: Connecting the Dots – Trachette Jackson|first=Add Jr.|last=Seymour| department=Emerging Scholars: The Class of 2008|date=January 10, 2008|magazine = Diverse Magazine| access-date = 2015-08-01}} She uses many different approaches, including continuous and discrete mathematical models, numerical simulations, and experiments to study tumor growth and treatment. Specifically, her lab is interested in "molecular pathways associated with intratumoral angiogenesis," "cell-tissue interactions associated with tumor-induced angiogenesis," and "tumor heterogeneity and cancer stem cells."{{cite web| url=http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~tjacks/research.html| title = The Jackson Cancer Modeling Group| work= University of Michigan Website| access-date = 2015-08-01}}
Education and career
Jackson's parents were in the military and traveled frequently through her childhood; as a teenager, she lived in Mesa, Arizona. There, in a summer calculus course, her talent for mathematics brought her to the attention of Arizona State University mathematics professor Joaquín Bustoz, Jr. She went on to undergraduate studies at ASU, originally intending to study engineering, but she was steered to mathematics by Bustoz.{{cite journal|title=Teacher, Research Mathematician, Mentor: A Groundbreaking Career in Computational and Mathematical Biology|journal=SIAM News|volume=43|issue=6|date=July–August 2010|url=http://www.ibparticipation.org/pdf/TrachetteJacksonSIAMnews.pdf|department=Expanding our Scope|first=Carlos|last=Castillo-Chavez|author-link=Carlos Castillo-Chavez}} From there, her interest in pure math developed into an interest in mathematical biology when she attended a talk by her future PhD advisor, James D. Murray, on the mathematics of pattern formation and "how the leopard got its spots."{{cite magazine| url=http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/mathematics-live-a-conversation-with-victoria-booth-and-trachette-jackson/| title=Mathematics, Live: A Conversation with Victoria Booth and Trachette Jackson|department=Roots of Unity|first=Evelyn |last=Lamb |date= October 9, 2013| magazine= Scientific American|access-date = 2015-08-01}} She graduated in 1994, and she earned her MS and PhD at the University of Washington in 1996 and 1998.{{cite web|url=http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/trachette-jackson|title=Trachette Jackson|work=TheHistoryMakers|access-date=2015-08-01}}{{mathgenealogy|id=50432}}
After postdoctoral research at the University of Minnesota, Environmental Protection Agency, and Duke University, she joined the University of Michigan faculty in 2000, and she was promoted to full professor in 2008.[https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/michigan-lsa/people-update/cv/tjacks-10242021-155249-CV2021-website.pdf Curriculum Vitae], October 25, 2021. Retrieved 2021-10-26.
Awards and recognition
She was awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2003,{{citation|url=https://sloan.org/past-fellows|title=Past Fellows|publisher=Sloan Foundation|access-date=2019-09-09}} becoming the second African-American woman after Kathleen Adebola Okikiolu to become a Sloan Fellow in mathematics. She won a James S. McDonnell 21st Century Scientist Grant in 2005,{{cite web | title=Funded Grants | website=James S. McDonnell Foundation | url=https://www.jsmf.org/grants/index.php?year=2005 | access-date=2022-12-05}} and won the Blackwell-Tapia Prize in 2010.{{cite web| url=https://www.math.hmc.edu/moodylectures/2014-fall/|title=Trachette L. Jackson: "Mathematical Models of Tumor Angiogenesis"| publisher=Harvey Mudd College|work=The Michael E. Moody Lecture Series | access-date = 2015-08-01}} In 2017, she was selected as a fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics in the inaugural class.{{cite web|title=2018 Inaugural Class of AWM Fellows Program|url=https://awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/2018-awm-fellows|website=awm-math.org/awards/awm-fellows/|publisher=Association for Women in Mathematics|access-date=9 January 2021}} Jackson's work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.{{Cite web|title=Trachette Jackson|url=https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/trachette-jackson/|website=Mathematically Gifted & Black}} She was named a SIAM Fellow in the 2021 class of fellows, "for innovative contributions to mathematical modeling in cancer biology and for the advancement of underrepresented minorities in science".{{cite magazine|url=https://sinews.siam.org/Details-Page/siam-announces-class-of-2021-fellows|title=SIAM Announces Class of 2021 Fellows|date=March 31, 2021|access-date=2021-04-03|magazine=SIAM News|publisher=Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics}} In 2021, she was awarded the University Diversity and Social Transformation Professorship at the University of Michigan,{{Cite web|title=Our U-M UDSTPs {{!}} U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/fellowships-awards/distinguished-diversity-social-transformation-professorship/um-udstps.html|access-date=2021-10-26|website=lsa.umich.edu|language=en}} in recognition of her "extraordinary commitment to increasing opportunities for girls, women, and underrepresented minority students in STEM, through her teaching and leadership."{{Cite web|title=Trachette L. Jackson {{!}} U-M LSA National Center for Institutional Diversity|url=https://lsa.umich.edu/ncid/people/university-diversity-and-social-transformation-professors/tjacks.html|access-date=2021-10-26|website=lsa.umich.edu|language=en}}
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- {{cite web|url=http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/PEEPS/jackson_trachette.html|work=Black Women in Mathematics|title=Trachette Jackson|first=Scott W.|last=Williams|publisher= State University of New York at Buffalo, Department of Mathematics}}
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-0ZALsdY3A Meet a mathematician! Video Interview]
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Category:21st-century American women mathematicians
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