Introductions Necessary

A food scientist with a positive worldwide public health impact, Dr. Virginia Holsinger‘s work on food security issues and dairy product research impacted many lives throughout her 41 year career at the United States Department of Agriculture.

Dr. Barbara Liskov was recipient of the 2008 Turing Award for contributions to practical and theoretical foundations of programming language and system design and she led the design and implementation of the CLU programming language.

Isabel Morgan’s work was a critical step in the journey toward a killed-virus polio vaccine.

Today we want to tell you about aviator turned conservationist Ila Fox Loetscher.

Margaret Reed Lewis is considered the first scientist to grow mammalian tissue in vitro, and her research contributed to the field of cancer research.

Dr. Erna Hoover has been quoted as saying that, “when I was hired the glass ceiling was somewhere between the basement and the sub-basement.” But that didn’t stop her from developing a program that would change the way telephone systems operated and being awarded one of the first patents for computer software.

According to aerospace engineer Natalie Panek she isn’t planning on being an astronaut someday – she is going to be an astronaut someday.

The inspiration for the novel Contact and its subsequent film, Dr. Jill Tarter has spent over 35 years searching the vast universe for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence.

Dr. Fabiola Gianotti is the director-general of CERN, and on January 1st of 2016 she became the first woman to lead the organization.

A professor of mathematics at Stanford University, Dr.  Maryam Mirzakhani is one of the leading researchers in the field of complex geodesics and their closures in moduli space.