1. Hilary Joan Arnold Godwin was born on December 1,1967 and is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences at the University of Washington and the dean of the School of Public Health.
21 Facts About Hilary Godwin
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Hilary Godwin's mother studied ants and became a biology teacher.
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Hilary Godwin was inspired to become a scientist by her family and Jane Goodall, a primatologist who studied chimpanzee behaviour in the 1960s.
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Hilary Godwin spent her summer holidays hiking in the mountains of Northern California.
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Hilary Godwin earned an undergraduate degree in chemistry at the University of Chicago in 1989, where she was part of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.
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Hilary Godwin moved to Stanford University for her doctoral degree in physical chemistry, which she completed in 1994.
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Hilary Godwin was a National Institutes of Health Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.
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Whilst at Johns Hopkins University Hilary Godwin researched how lead can interact with RNA, causing learning difficulties and behavioural issues.
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Hilary Godwin was the first woman to be hired into a tenure-track position, and in 2004 was the first woman to be made chair of the chemistry department.
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Hilary Godwin was made a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor in 2002.
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At the time Hilary Godwin lived in Evanston, Illinois, an area that was labelled as a high risk for lead poisoning.
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Hilary Godwin became concerned about the levels of lead in her family home, and particularly the risk that her son would suffer from lead poisoning.
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Hilary Godwin studied the coordination chemistry of lead in water, and how lead is transported and survives inside the human body.
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Hilary Godwin demonstrated that lead interferes with the ability of a protein to turn genes on and off.
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Hilary Godwin showed that the mechanism by which lead modifies the function of proteins occurs through the displacement of zinc and calcium.
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Hilary Godwin joined the faculty at University of California, Los Angeles in 2006.
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Hilary Godwin acted as associate dean in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health from 2008 to 2011 and again from 2014 to 2018.
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In 2018, Hilary Godwin was elected dean of the University of Washington School of Public Health, and started the position on July 15.
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Whilst at Northwestern University Hilary Godwin was awarded $1 million from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute program to support students move between high school and college.
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Hilary Godwin created the Minority Success in Science program, which connected community public health groups, local health organisations and school groups.
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Hilary Godwin was particularly involved with initiatives that assessed lead poisoning in Chicago's soils, which inspired her focus her research in public health.