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Vote Now: Perimeter Institute Wants To Know Who Should Be Included In Their Next ‘Great Women In Science’ Poster Series

wyskDecember 14, 2017

Back in October we introduced you to the free-downloadable “Forces of Nature” poster series by Perimeter Institute, which celebrates the contributions women hav...

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Technologist Mitra Best On Gender Bias And Striving For Equity In The Workplace

Guest ContributorDecember 14, 2017

By Mitra Best - I am proud to be a female technologist, but the fact I am a woman should be irrelevant. Most of us want to be recognized for our capabilities an...

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13 Inspiring Ways To Turbo Boost The Girl Power Of The Young Leaders, Activists And Feminists You Know

wyskNovember 30, 2017

Girl Power! Leadership, activism and feminism have no minimum age requirement. So here are 13 inspiring, educational, engaging and downright fun ways to help gi...

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How Mathematical Lone Wolf Karen Uhlenbeck Found Her Pack

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 29, 2017

When you first walk into high school your Freshman year and plop yourself nervously into a desk in the back of your geometry class (because you're far too cool ...

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17-Year-Old Behind STEMily K. Site Interviews STEM Role Models For Girls To See, Be Inspired By

Guest ContributorNovember 28, 2017

By Emily Koehne - Before high school, I had no idea what the acronym "STEM" meant. It only hit my radar in the 8th grade, once I started researching high school...

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New ‘Bombshell’ Documentary Tells Extraordinary Story of Hedy Lamarr… Icon. Immigrant. Inventor.

wyskNovember 9, 2017

Born November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria, Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler starred in her first film (a German project) at age 17, eventually landing in Hollywood, wher...

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Women Killing It! Podcast: Meet Christyl Johnson, The First Female African-American Deputy Director At NASA

wyskNovember 7, 2017

In this episode of Sally Hubbard’s Women Killing It! podcast, hear how Christyl Johnson is leading the charge of shaping and designing NASA’s missions of the fu...

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“Forces Of Nature” Downloadable Poster Series Celebrates Great Women In Science

Guest ContributorOctober 25, 2017

By Eamon O'Flynn - The first computer algorithm. Stellar classification systems. The discovery of new elements, forces, and other building blocks of nature. ...

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Women of NASA LEGO Set Revealed, Launching Nov 1

wyskOctober 18, 2017

In August 2014 LEGO released the Research Institute, a set of female scientists, which included designs that were submitted to the LEGO Ideas contest by geochem...

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