Roger Arliner Young

By Nicholas Tsiklauri

  • Roger was born

  • Young received her Bachelor of Science from Howard University

  • Working with her mentor, Ernest Everett Just, she made a signigficant contribution to the study of structures that control salt concentration

  • Roger Arliner Young received a Master of Science in Zoology from University of Chicago

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    She spent summers doing research at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,

  • She published several notable studies on the effects of direct and indirect radiation on sea urchin eggs.

  • Young was the first black woman to receive a doctoral degree in zoology, Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania

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    Dr. Young taught at the North Carolina College for Negroes and at Shaw University, North Carolina

  • Moore taught at several Black colleges in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

  • Roger Arliner died