Complex sentence: Born in Newark, New Jersey, Janet Norwood grew up in Irvington, graduated from the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College) of Rutgers University, and earned her doctorate at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in Newark, New Jersey, Janet Norwood grew up in Irvington, and graduated from the New Jersey College for Women (now Douglass College) of Rutgers University. She then earned her doctorate at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts University.