In addition to her world-renowned scientific work, Tilghman has also long exhibited a passion for teaching.
Between the completion of her undergraduate studies at Queens College and her doctoral work at Temple, Tilghman spent two years teaching in a secondary school in Sierra Leone.
In 1986 she arrived at Princeton as the Prior Professor of the Life Sciences.
Tilghman teaches large groups of both undergraduates and graduates, as well as a freshman seminar.
In 1996, Tilghman was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Tilghman has also continued her research while at Princeton. She has been the head of the university's Institute for Integrative Genomics since 1998.
Wright said this intense combination of teaching and research has made Tilghman “very important to Princeton.”
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