- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (6 video files (2 hr., 43 min., 58 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Engineer and professor Sossina Haile was born on July 28, 1966 in Ethiopia. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received her B.S. degree in 1986. She went on to receive her M.S. degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. While in school, Haile received the AT&T Cooperative Research Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. Upon receiving her Ph.D. degree, Haile was hired as an assistant professor at the University of Washington, Seattle where she remained until 1996 when she joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology. Haile became well-known for her work at CIT. In the 1990s, she fabricated the first solid-acid fuel cell in her lab, regarded as a gateway to more powerful, commercial cells. Haile's work was supported by the National Science Foundation among numerous others. Haile received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Sossina Haile
- Sossina Haile
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 997169944
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Sossina Haile.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
024358
- 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 Los Angeles, California 2012 November 29.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
Chemical Engineer.
- Added Author
Haile, Sossina M., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.