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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Sossina Haile
Sossina Haile
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| Other authors / contributors: | Haile, Sossina M., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Los Angeles, California 2012 November 29.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Engineer and professor Sossina Haile was born on July 28, 1966 in Ethiopia. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received her B.S. degree in 1986. She went on to receive her M.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. While in school, Haile received the AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. Upon receiving her Ph.D. degree, Haile was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle where she remained until 1996 when she joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. Haile became well-known for her work at CIT. In the 1990s, she fabricated the first solid-acid fuel cell in her lab, regarded as a gateway to more powerful, commercial cells. Haile's work was supported by the National Science Foundation among numerous others. Haile received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists.
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