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...
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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 ...
Breaking Neutral: The Population Genetics Of Tomoko Ohta
We are all mutants, our genes loaded with the steadily acquired variations of three billion years that gradually changed a collection of over-achieving thermop...
Caged By War: The Abbreviated Life Of Aeronautical Engineer And Test Pilot Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg
The last decade of Countess Melitta von Stauffenberg's life was ringed by impossible decisions, choices that you and I will never experience outside of a theor...
Women In Science Puppet Theater Series, Episode 2: The Tale Of Cosmetic Chemist, Hazel Bishop
In this week's episode of our Women In Science Puppet Theater video series (click image above to watch), kids get to know cosmetic chemist, Hazel Bishop (1906-...
From Nebraska’s Fields To The Ocean’s Floor: The Long Road Of Evolutionary Biologist Elma González
There is a theory that curiosity originates in leisure, that only after one has taken care of the big important things like food and shelter can one spare the ...
Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...