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Linda P.B. Katehi-Tseregounis (born January 30, 1954) is a Greek-American engineer and university administrator. Since 2009, she has served as the sixth chancellor of the University of California, Davis. ==Early life and education== Katehi was born in Athens and grew up on Salamis Island in Greece. After graduating from high school, Katehi was admitted to the National Technical University of Athens, which she was able to attend because it did not charge tuition at the time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.wascsenior.org/commission/commissioner/linda-katehi )〕 In 1977, Katehi was the first female from Salamis to graduate from college and she did so with a degree in electrical engineering.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://giving.ucdavis.edu/impacts-of-giving/one-hundred-stories/81-90/helping-students-say-yes-to-college.html )〕 Katehi was one of the two women in her class of 189 students and has stated that this lead to many difficulties and biases against her during that time.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/speeches-writings/2014/engineeringneedstodiversify110714.html )〕 Since then, Katehi has stated that these difficulties and biases motivated her to mentor women and other underrepresented minorities pursuing careers in engineering and the sciences.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://blogs.ucdavis.edu/higher-ed-matters/2013/05/10/the-power-of-a-good-role-model/ )〕 Katehi has stated that she was drawn to electrical engineering as a teenager in 1969, when she watched Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 Moon landing while at a neighbor’s home. She went on to say that, while captivated by the astronauts, she was most captivated by the engineers back in the Mission Control on Earth.〔 Katehi has also publicly shared her experience of being a student at the National Technical University during the student uprisings against the Greek dictatorial regime that was violently crushed by a combined military and police force on Nov. 17, 1973.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Katehi speech at UC Davis rally )〕 After two years working as a researcher at the Ministry of National Defense’s Naval Research Lab in Athens, a future mentor encouraged her to apply to graduate school at University of California, Los Angeles and she came to the United States in 1979. She went on to earn her master's degree and doctorate in electrical engineering at UCLA’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 1981 and 1984, respectively.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda P.B. Katehi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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