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Lucy Evelyn Cheesman, Pioneer Entomologist of the Pacific Islands

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 30, 2019

Dangling over the edge of a cliffside, her hands gripping a couple clumps of bracken embedded in the rock for dear life, Lucy Evelyn Cheesman (1881-1969) might...

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Vibrating Spiders And Waggling Bees: Dr. Madeline Girard And Her Multimodal Menagerie

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 23, 2019

It's not what you say, it's how you vibrate your opisthosoma while you're saying it. - Ancient Peacock Spider Proverb. We humans tend to think very hig...

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Mathematician Dr. Gladys West Inducted Into Air Force Pioneers Hall of Fame

wyskJanuary 16, 2019

On December 6, 2018, 87-year-old mathematician Dr. Gladys West was presented with the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers award for her decades of contributio...

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Five Girls You Should Know Who Rocked The World In 2018 Through Their Actions And Words

wyskJanuary 4, 2019

Over the 365 days that made up 2018, we had the privilege to get to know a number of inspiring girls who are rockin' their corners of the world. Among this est...

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Mildred Cohn And Her Pioneering Work In Nuclear Magnetic Resonance

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 2, 2019

ATP is the stuff of life. Without it, cell communication shuts down, muscles freeze, and anything requiring ready energy (which is to say, darn near everything...

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The High Temperature Quantum Chromodynamics Of Ágnes Mócsy

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 12, 2018

When planning a trip to the universe's first millionth of a second of existence, there are really only two things the canny traveler needs to keep in mind: (...

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Women Killing It: Meet Christine Weber, Engineering SVP Driving The Future Of Live Streaming TV

Sally HubbardNovember 20, 2018

"I really don’t see specifically gender defining who I am. I want people to see me for me and for what I can offer and for what I can contribute." - Christine W...

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Real Talk With Astronaut Abby: How Women Deal With Their Periods In Space

wyskNovember 12, 2018

In 1983, as Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, was preparing for her history-making flight aboard the space shuttle Challenger, engineers as...

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