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Julia Robinson And The Cracking Of Hilbert’s 10th Problem

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 20, 2019

For mathematicians, the only thing more exciting than proving a theorem is proving that it can never be proven. These anti-proofs, if you will, stand fir...

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Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, Giraffe, And The Winding Road Of The Citizen Scientist

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 13, 2019

Before Jane and Dian, Biruté and Jeanne, there was Anne. In 1957 Anne Innis (b. 1933) became the first woman to attempt a solo animal research expedi...

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Downloadable STEM Role Models Posters Celebrate Women Innovators As Illustrated By Women Artists

wyskFebruary 11, 2019

Now at the end of its second season, Nevertheless, a truly WYSKy podcast that tells the stories of women who are transforming teaching and learning through tec...

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Girl Scout To Galaxy Explorer: How Caeley Looney Discovered Her Path To Aerospace Engineering In Middle School

Guest ContributorFebruary 11, 2019

By Shruti Kumar - It’s almost as if the stars aligned to bring Caeley Looney into the world of aerospace engineering. Caeley was born to two engineers?—?her mo...

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More Than A Prize Unwon: The Manifold Legacies Of Rosalind Franklin

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 6, 2019

When Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) succumbed to cancer at the age of thirty-seven, she left behind monumental contributions to three different fields of scienc...

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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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Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 9, 2019

Harriet Boyd Hawes was cursed from birth with an overabundance of Purpose. She was ever in search of a Problem to solve, and possessed both the ability t...

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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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