Jennie R. Patrick [SCD '79, first African-American woman to earn a PhD in chemical engineering from MIT] grew up in Gadsden, a small, typically Southern, town in Alabama, the fourth of five children.
Source: https://www.blackhistory.mit.edu/publications/oral-history-jennie-r-patrick-2006
Craig Arnold is a Director, Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. He studies fluid mechanics, applied physics, and materials science.