| 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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