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Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 27, 2021

One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...

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Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 13, 2021

In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...

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The Princess Narrative, Reinvented: 2021 Calendar Features 12 STEM Royals And The Power (Tools) They Wield To Inspire Girls

wyskDecember 9, 2020

Girls don’t need to choose between being a scientist and being a princess... because being brilliant in STEM and wearing lipstick are not mutually exclusive. T...

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Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 9, 2020

It is an axiom in business that the more mundane the job, the more grandiose the title. Executives seem to believe that we will feel more resigned to a l...

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Priya, India’s First Female Superhero, Takes On Covid-19 In Latest Digital Comic Book, Short Animated Film

wyskDecember 8, 2020

Priya, India's first female superhero, has been defending and empowering survivors of gender-based violence - sexual violence, acid attacks, and sex traffickin...

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Steering The Future Of Women In Science: The Institutional Wizardry Of Microbiologist Rita Colwell

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 2, 2020

One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. It is no longer e...

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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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14-Year-Old Anika Chebrolu Named ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ For Work On Potential COVID-19 Cure

wyskOctober 21, 2020

14-year-old Anika Chebrolu was just named the winner of the 2020 3M Young Scientist Challenge, an annual innovation competition hosted in partnership with...

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Florence Bascom: The Many Facets Of Geology’s “Stone Lady”

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 7, 2020

There is a special poetry in rocks available to a select few and utterly incomprehensible to absolutely everybody else. While ninety-nine pairs of eyes o...

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