The HistoryMakers video oral history with Allen Sessoms.

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Imprint:Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Description:1 online resource (8 video files (3 hr., 54 min., 56 sec.)) : sound, color.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Video Streaming Video
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11318546
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Varying Form of Title:History Makers video oral history with Allen Sessoms
Allen Sessoms
Other authors / contributors:Sessoms, Allen, 1946- interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
Sound characteristics:digital
Digital file characteristics:video file
Notes:Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Washington, District of Columbia 2012 September 13.
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Summary:Physicist and university president Allen Lee Sessoms was born on November 17, 1946. He attended Union College in New York, where he graduated with his B.S. degree in physics in 1968. One year later, he obtained his M.S. degree in physics from the University of Washington. Sessoms earned his M.Phys. degree and Ph.D. degree in physics in 1971 and 1972 from Yale University. In 1974, he became an assistant professor of physics at Harvard University. Six years later, he joined the State Department, and in 1991, became the deputy chief of mission at the embassy to Mexico. Leaving the State Department, Sessoms worked as executive vice president and provost at the University of Massachusetts, going on to become president of Queens College. In 2003, he became president of Delaware State University, and was president of the University of the District of Columbia from 2008 to 2012, when he moved to Georgetown University as professor.

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