"First off, Jenny is an admirable scientist, a physics professor at UMass Amherst, with an amazing lab which you can read abut here. And she tries to encourage women in science and documents her experiences in her blog WomanOfScience.com. You don't need me to tell you how successful she is, or how important her work is, and she is so humble I don't even know the surface of her accomplishments, though I also know she is on the scientific advisory board for the arXiv which is a science and math preprint server, no, actually the preprint server. It is where most scientists post their papers to share it with the community, usually before submitting it to a journal. Jenny is super accomplished, but that is not what I want to share with you about Jenny.
I didn't meet Jenny at Wellesley but in Southern California during graduate school years where we were both studying physics, and I spent a year at her university. Unfortunately I didn't get to know her better. But Jennyis the kind of person when, after not meeting for six years, and I emailed her about a STEM article for WU, she got back to me the same day. She's the kind of person when, if you say you'll be visiting her university after not seeing her for many many years, she'll take the time to spend with you and show you her lab, office, family pictures and catch up. Professors are very, very busy, but Jenny makes time for the people she knows anyway and doesn't make you feel like you are burdening her but, in fact, makes you feel like you are important and valuable. She didn't make my husband and me feel inferior in any way when we visited her, even though we weren't as advanced as she was on the academic ladder. She is also an extremely enthusiastic and positive person, from the interaction I've had with her, and a very good influence in physics for the field and for women. She is a true Wellesley woman, one who makes a difference, and is also very proud of being a Wellesley graduate. And I am proud to have her as a Wellesley sister and to know her a little."
