Chief Pamela Smith Is Now The First Black Woman To Lead 230-Year-Old U.S. Park Police
Yesterday, the National Park Service announced Pamela Smith has been named the new Chief of the United States Park Police (USPP), the nation’s oldest federal l...
Empowerment
History-Making Ophthalmologist Dr. Patricia Bath Could Be First Black Woman Inducted Into National Inventors Hall Of Fame
Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019) lived a life without limits. She was the first Black American to complete an Ophthalmology residency at New Y...
Can We Please Start Talking About Perimenopause?
By Skylar Liberty Rose - During a recent visit with my doctor I referred to some issues I’d been having with my periods. I explained that over the past year th...
Naval Engineer Raye Montague And The Tale Of The World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel
In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...
Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon
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. ...
Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka
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...
The Princess Narrative, Reinvented: 2021 Calendar Features 12 STEM Royals And The Power (Tools) They Wield To Inspire Girls
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...
Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak
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...
Priya, India’s First Female Superhero, Takes On Covid-19 In Latest Digital Comic Book, Short Animated Film
Priya, India's first female superhero, has been defending and empowering survivors of gender-based violence - sexual violence, acid attacks, and sex traffickin...