Women in Science

Book Review: Volcanologist Jess Phoenix’s ‘Ms. Adventure: My Wild Explorations in Science, Lava, and Life’

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 31, 2021

Science communication is all too often a matter of reporting end states. Scientist X has discovered Thing Y, and we should be happy/anxious/enraged about...

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Ivory And Bone: Agatha Christie And Her Three Decades Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 17, 2021

In a tent in Iraq, an Englishwoman attempts to sleep as mice crawl over her body and cockroaches look on from the walls. She is exhausted, having divided...

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From The Plumage Of Birds To The Classification Of The Natural Kingdom: The Life Of Ornithologist Graceanna Lewis

Dale DeBakcsyMarch 3, 2021

In the mid 19th century, American biological science was tentatively feeling its way forward along a half dozen different and contradictory directions as it ga...

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Naval Engineer Raye Montague And The Tale Of The World’s First Computer-Designed Naval Vessel

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 17, 2021

In March 1971, a computer science whiz with an unlikely background was given six months to complete a seemingly impossible project for the United States Navy: ...

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Catalysts And Photoreactivity: Discoveries From The Life Of Elizabeth Fulhame, Europe’s First Woman Chemical Researcher

Dale DeBakcsyFebruary 10, 2021

Sometimes, the presence of a third party allows two people to accomplish something they either could not pull off, or would take an agonizingly long time to ac...

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Biplanes, Airships, Submarines: My Talk With Dr. Nina Baker About The Engineering Legacy Of Hilda Lyon

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 27, 2021

One of the great things about writing this column is the fact that, from time to time, I get to talk with remarkable people about other remarkable people. ...

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Our Endogenous Retroviruses, Ourselves: The Life And Legacy Of Dr. Anna Marie Skalka

Dale DeBakcsyJanuary 13, 2021

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...

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Through A Satellite’s Gaze, The Past: The Career Of Space Archaeologist Sarah Parcak

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 9, 2020

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...

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Steering The Future Of Women In Science: The Institutional Wizardry Of Microbiologist Rita Colwell

Dale DeBakcsyDecember 2, 2020

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...

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