A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In 1991, she was a ...
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Command And Control: Meet The All-Women Satellite Ops Crew Who Just Made U.S. Space Force History
Schriever AFB in Colorado, a base of the United States Air Force, houses the world's best space command and control teams. On July 23rd, Schriever’s 2nd S...
An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...
“Blackfeet Boxing” Documentary Spotlights Club Where Native American Girls Learn To Fight For Their Lives
According to the United States Justice Department, Native American women are ten times more likely to be murdered than non-native women. More than one in three...
From The Underground Railroad In Syracuse To A Historic Practice In Santo Domingo: The Journey Of Dr. Sarah Loguen Fraser
In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first American woman to earn a Medical Degree, and within half a century seven thousand American women had followed her...
‘Secrets Of The Surface’ Documentary Honors The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)
On February 22, 2017, our Women In Science column featured a profile of mathematician Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman and first Iranian to win a prestig...
A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek
It is the early 1870s and we are heading into the mining town of Gornyi Zerentui, located in the mountainous Transbaikal region on the distant Siberian fringe ...
“Can You Please Call Us Back”… Why I’m Glad I Forced Myself To Do A Mammogram In The Time Of COVID
By Cheryl Laughlin - 2020 had a certain symmetry built into it. By January 2, 2020, I was fleeing the soul-suck of a demeaning job for a soul-pump of a bright ...
Meet Design Pioneer Sara Little Turnbull. Her Inspiration Shaped The N95 Mask. Her Many Innovations Still Better Us Today.
By Amy Chen - At a time when women in business were few, Sara Little Turnbull (1917 – 2015), design pioneer, corporate influencer, an American original, earned...