Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka
In 1970, everybody knew, or believed they did, how the flow of genetic information in a cell works. The Central Dogma of genetics dictated that DNA is transcr...
Women in Science
Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak
It is an axiom in business that the more mundane the job, the more grandiose the title. Executives seem to believe that we will feel more resigned to a l...
Steering The Future Of Women In Science: The Institutional Wizardry Of Microbiologist Rita Colwell
One of the exciting and daunting things about doing science in the Twenty-First century is the sheer number of competencies it demands. It is no longer e...
The Lady Of The Engine Room: Victoria Drummond, Britain’s First Woman Marine Engineer
It is August 25, 1940, and the Panamanian ship Bonita, sailing alone in war-torn waters with its cargo of clay bound for the United States, is suddenly attacke...
Chronicler Of The Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys Of Isabella Bird
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...
Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories Of The World’s First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe
Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing nothing more in her lif...
Florence Bascom: The Many Facets Of Geology’s “Stone Lady”
There is a special poetry in rocks available to a select few and utterly incomprehensible to absolutely everybody else. While ninety-nine pairs of eyes o...
Gertrude Bell, Byzantine Archaeology, And The Founding Of Iraq
The art of Strenuous Living is one we usually associate with the generation of nervous over-achievers who grew up after the US Civil War, during the age that s...