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New Trailer For RBG Film “On The Basis Of Sex”… You’re Going To Want To See This!

wyskDecember 20, 2018

As if we weren't excited enough when the documentary RBG hit the big screen earlier this year, we have ordered our tickets and are ready to see the much ant...

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Dr. Mary Bunting (1910-1998): From Microbiologist to College President

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 19, 2018

There is a lot of life left to live after one's children are out of the house. It might seem an obvious statement, but it was a fact that the university syst...

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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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Inspiring Women Of Afghanistan: Shaesta Waiz, The First Woman Certified Civilian Pilot

Guest ContributorDecember 11, 2018

By Aisha Azimi - Afghan-American pilot Shaesta Waiz is one of the many Afghan women that inspire me. Shaesta is the first female certified civilian pilot from A...

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The Last of the Women Physicians: Dorothea Leporin Erxleben (1715-1762)

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 5, 2018

Prior to the Eighteenth Century, the answer to the question, "Who was allowed to practice medicine?" was relatively simple: Damn near anybody. While those who ...

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Nobel Laureate Rita Levi-Montalcini and the Discovery Of Nerve Growth Factor

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 28, 2018

It is 1942, and Allied bombs are raking the city of Turin, wreaking a thudding vengeance for Il Duce’s cynical alliance with Nazi Germany. Amidst the panic and...

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Speaking Culture to Psychoanalysis: The Karen Horney Gender Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 21, 2018

How much of womanhood is a matter of biology, and how much one of culture? Prior to 1929, Freudian psychoanalysis had closed rank determinedly around a biologi...

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Traveling ‘Over The River And Through The Wood’ This Thanksgiving? You Should Know Lydia Maria Child

wyskNovember 21, 2018

She not only authored this famed line for a Thanksgiving Day poem (1844), she was a tireless crusader for Native Americans, slaves, and women....

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I’m Fighting For The Fading Stories Of Pioneering Women In Science And The Platform That Preserves Them

Dale DeBakcsyNovember 16, 2018

I am looking at a bookshelf of fading stories. Here are biographies long out of print of women who changed their time (and ours) for the better but whose lives ...

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