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Command And Control: Meet The All-Women Satellite Ops Crew Who Just Made U.S. Space Force History

wyskJuly 28, 2020

Schriever AFB in Colorado, a base of the United States Air Force, houses the world's best space command and control teams. On July 23rd, Schriever’s 2nd S...

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The Fourth Castle: The Unfathomable Resiliency Of Pioneering Oceanographer Kathleen Crane

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 22, 2020

Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second ...

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An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 8, 2020

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

Dale DeBakcsyJune 25, 2020

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...

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‘Secrets Of The Surface’ Documentary Honors The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017)

wyskJune 24, 2020

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...

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A Healer At The Fringe Of Civilization: The Siberian Odyssey Of Doctor Anna Bek

Dale DeBakcsyJune 18, 2020

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 ...

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Meet Design Pioneer Sara Little Turnbull. Her Inspiration Shaped The N95 Mask. Her Many Innovations Still Better Us Today.

Guest ContributorJune 11, 2020

By Amy Chen - At a time when women in business were few, Sara Little Turnbull (1917 – 2015), design pioneer, corporate influencer, an American original, earned...

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Emma Darwin And The Invisible Heroism Of The Scientific Caretaker

Dale DeBakcsyJune 10, 2020

The road leading to the creation and publication of The Origin of the Species was one of the most tortuous and personally costly in the history of science.&nbs...

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A Gift Unfathomable: The Piano Artistry Of Martha Argerich

Dale DeBakcsyJune 3, 2020

How welcoming is a piano. It has a warm magnetism that pulls at the eager corners of hope - "Sit down. Press a key - a beautiful sound will happen....

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