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17-Year-Old STEM Scholar Pens Powerful Essay On Invaluable Rewards Of Pushing Past Self-Doubt

Guest ContributorAugust 15, 2018

My name is Diana Mendoza, and I am the next generation of this country’s great architects, engineers and designers. At 17, I am heading into my junior year a...

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The Curve Who Became a Witch: The Mathematics of Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 8, 2018

If any century would have favorably understood the manic blend of child shaming and twisted pride that is the typical Toddlers and Tiaras pageant parent, it was...

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Icie Macy Hoobler (1892-1984) And The Science of Infant-Mother Nutrition

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 23, 2018

A young mother of the early twentieth century who couldn't or didn't want to breastfeed was a creature entirely at the hands of bumbling chance. Doctors of the ...

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Generations: The Story of Women in Neutrino Research

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 11, 2018

The most powerful force in the study of physics is not gravity or electromagnetism. It is not love, or courage. It is accounting. "But that doesn't qui...

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Women Killing It: Candice Hughes, Pharma/Biotech Entrepreneur, PhD, MBA, On Grit, Persistence And Failure

Sally HubbardJuly 2, 2018

"You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be present. How you are is good enough." - Candice Hughes In this episode of the Women Killing It! podcast, h...

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115 Years Ago Today Marie Sklodowska Curie Made History

wyskJune 25, 2018

"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy." - Marie Sk?odowska Curie...

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Lillian Moller Gilbreth “The First Lady Of Engineering” And The Founding Of Industrial Psychology

Dale DeBakcsyMay 24, 2018

There was nothing in the first 26 years of Lillian Moller's life which suggested she would some day come to be known as the First Lady of Engineering....

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New Book Unearths Forgotten Suffragists Of WWI Who Paved Way For Today’s Women In Science

wyskMay 17, 2018

In her new book A Lab of One's Own, Patricia Fara, award-winning author and esteemed lecturer in the history of science, unearths the forgotten suffragists of W...

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Clean Water, Breathable Air, And The Science Of Food: The Remarkable Legacy Of Ellen Swallow

Dale DeBakcsyMay 16, 2018

Every morning we wake up to a feast of assumptions. We assume that the place our sewage gets dumped is not the same place our drinking water comes from. We in...

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