Scheduling for Success, Preparing for Disaster: NASA Flight Controller Marianne Dyson
In between landing on the moon in July of 1969 and launching the first space shuttle into orbit in April of 1981, NASA learned a few things about contingency pl...
Women in Science
The Queen of Wind-Blown Sediments: Kelly Deuerling’s Aeolian Geochemistry
Life is an ion-hungry enterprise. Sure, carbs, proteins, and fatty acids get most of the press, but without a steady stream of calcium to help regulate signal t...
Agnes Mary Clerke (1842-1907) At The Nerve Center Of 19th Century Astrophysics
For a solid century and a half, from Mary Somerville's The Mechanism of the Heavens of 1830 to Helen Sawyer Hogg's final With the Stars column in 1981, it was l...
Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) And The Battle For Medical Women
She needed to show the country that a woman could be an effective doctor, and that many patients benefited tangibly from having the option of a woman doctor available to them. ...
Margaret Sanger and the Creation of the Pill
Margaret Sanger (1879-1966), more than any other single individual in human history, is responsible for placing mankind’s reproductive destiny back in the hands of those who bear its burdens....
Dame Stephanie Shirley and the World’s First All-Woman Software Company
Having lived when so many of her generation had died, she knew she must make something of that life....
First: The Astrophysics and Astronautics of Dr. Sally Ride (1951-2012)
"The fact that I was going to be the first American woman going into space carried huge expectations along with it." - Dr. Sally Ride...
The Tragedy Of Primatologist Dian Fossey (1932-1985)
"Her example of one woman, standing entirely alone against massive economic and institutional powers to protect the interests of a single species through every means at her limited disposal is a towering one..."...
“Out Of School And Into Nature” Picture Book Celebrates The Life And Career Of Naturalist Anna Comstock
"A child's book is not words alone, it is words and pictures that have found a dialogue with each other, and here again, Out of School shines."...