Research Catalog

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ilesanmi Adesida.

Publication

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Details

Additional Authors

• Adesida, Ilesanmi
• Crowe, Larry F.
• Hickey, Matthew
• HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.

Description

1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 26 sec.)) : sound, color.

Summary

Research director Ilesanmi Adesida was born on May 15, 1949 in Ifon, Nigeria. Adesida graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with her B.S. degree in 1974. He returned for graduate school, receiving her M.S. degree in 1975 and her Ph.D. degree in 1979. Adesida was then awarded an IBM postdoctoral fellowship. In 1987, Adesida began teaching at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he directed the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology. He also served as a professor in the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology. Adesida was named the Donald Biggar Willet Professor of Engineering in 2003, dean of the College of Engineering in 2005, and provost and vice chancellor in 2012. Adesida is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America (OSA).

Alternative Title

• History Makers video oral history with Ilesanmi Adesida
• Ilesanmi Adesida

Subjects

• Nonfiction films
• Internet videos
• Oral histories
• Interviews
• Electrical Engineer
• African Americans > Interviews
• Adesida, Ilesanmi > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Internet videos.
• Interviews.
• Nonfiction films.
• Oral histories.

Credits (note)

• Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

OCLC

994208804

Title

The HistoryMakers video oral history with Ilesanmi Adesida.

Publisher

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

Country of Producing Entity

United States. naf

Playing Time

022326

Type of Content

two-dimensional moving image

Type of Medium

computer

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

video file

Performer

Larry Crowe, interviewer.

Credits

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Event

Recorded Champaign, Illinois 2013 June 7.

Source of description

Vendor-supplied metadata.

Connect to:

Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL

Indexed Term

Electrical Engineer.

Added Author

Adesida, Ilesanmi, interviewee.

Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.

Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.

HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.