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Dr. Frances Kelsey, The Woman Who Saved The US From The Worst Pharmaceutical Disaster In History

Guest ContributorAugust 1, 2019

By James Essinger - Most people in the United States today have never heard of the drug thalidomide, but they ought to know the danger they escaped. I...

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Young Female Rocket Scientist Launches Nation’s First Print Magazine For Girls In STEM

Guest ContributorJune 26, 2019

By Natalie Hahn - Reinvented Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, this month announced the launch of their magazine’s first issue. Reinvented Magazin...

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Guns N Taxonomy: The Vertebrate Biology Of Annie Alexander

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 20, 2019

As a rule, our favorite flavors of scientist are the theoretical and experimental – we tend to like them either sitting in a chair creating beautiful abstracti...

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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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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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The Marine Biology Of Eugenie Clark, Also Known As The “Shark Lady”

Dale DeBakcsyMay 3, 2018

It’s Shark Week! In celebration we’d like to introduce you to woman you should know marine biologist Eugenie Clark, also known as the “Shark Lady"....

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“Forces of Nature” Great Women In Science Poster Series Returns With 3 New Downloads

Guest ContributorMarch 8, 2018

By Eamon O’Flynn - Last autumn, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics released a series of free, downloadable posters that celebrated groundbreaking contr...

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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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