Fresh out of graduate school, Mary Lowe Good began her faculty career at Louisiana State University as an instructor in 1954.  She initiated a fruitful research career in inorganic chemistry and two years later, with her Ph.D. degree in hand, was promoted to Assistant Professor.  In 1958, she and her husband, a physics Ph.D. recipient from LSU, moved to New Orleans, among the original faculty members of the newly-established Louisiana State University in New Orleans.  LSUNO subsequently was renamed University of New Orleans but continued as part of the LSU System.  Mary was rapidly promoted to professor, and in 1973 she became the first woman to be designated Boyd Professor (most distinguished rank) in the LSU System.  In January 1979 she returned to LSU in Baton Rouge to be director of a new materials science program in the College of Engineering.  Two years later she retired from LSU, after 26 years of service, to begin an industrial career.

From instructor to icon: Mary Good's academic career in Louisiana

245th National Meeting (2013)

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