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SMART Decision: International Association of Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation Workers Helps Fund Pioneering Nonprofit’s Construction Camp For Girls

wyskJuly 29, 2021

Union’s Peer-To-Peer Fundraiser Benefit Tools & Tiaras Inc., A Tradeswoman-Founded Nonprofit On A Mission To Show Girls That "Jobs Don't Have Genders"I...

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Leadership Accelerator For Women Of Color Accelerates To Launch With Groundswell Of $50,000 In Crowdfunded Support

wyskJuly 14, 2021

First Of Its Kind Program To Serve 40 Women Of Color,Aims To Close Leadership Gap Across IndustriesCynthia Pong, JD, is building a future in which women of...

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Studies In Expectation: The Life Of Astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Dale DeBakcsyJune 16, 2021

Sometimes the hardest thing about living in the universe is knowing about it. There is real and true terror to be faced in the indifferent march of the u...

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Paramedic/Artist Kate Bergen Nominated As ‘Paramedic Of The Year’ For Her ‘Modern Day Rosies’ Paintings Celebrating Women First Responders Of COVID

wyskJune 10, 2021

Kate Bergen is a paramedic and artist from New Jersey. When COVID first hit, shift after shift put her directly on the front line of defense against the novel ...

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Varieties: The Life And Mathematics Of Hanna Neumann

Dale DeBakcsyJune 9, 2021

Of all the realms of mathematics, there are few where more people feel more at home than in the safe harbors of algebra. Since the age of eight, we have ...

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From Grieving Daughter To Volunteer Activist To CEO: A Search For Answers Inspired Her To Lead Groundbreaking Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer

Guest ContributorJune 8, 2021

By Julie Fleshman - Cancer. It’s a word that makes you go numb. In 1999, my father was diagnosed with cancer -- pancreatic cancer. The news was debilitating. P...

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Death And Time: The Pioneering Biostratigraphy Of Julia Anna Gardner

Dale DeBakcsyJune 2, 2021

On a lonely stretch of Florida swamp road, in the year 1920, a model T Ford with no headlights and two hastily replaced tires is trying to make its way through...

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It Takes A Forest To Grow A Tree: The Revolutionary Forest Ecology Of Suzanne Simard

Dale DeBakcsyMay 27, 2021

Four short decades ago, the prevailing wisdom among forestry officials was the "Free To Grow" model by which, when a forest was clear cut for lumber, the earth...

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Master Of Matrices: Olga Taussky-Todd And How One Of Math’s Coolest Objects Refound Its Groove

Dale DeBakcsyMay 12, 2021

In high school, matrices don’t get anything near a fair shake. In case it’s been a while, matrices were those rectangular grids of numbers that look some...

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