Introductions Necessary

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig has used her expertise in climatology to help study the impact of climate change on agriculture and cities.

Dr. Yvonne Pendleton has spent her career helping us to understand our place in the universe.

Grace Wiley believed that with the right methods even the most deadly snakes could be tamed and by speaking to them and handling them with her bare hands she claimed to have tamed over 300 venomous snakes during her career.

Mary L. Good was an inorganic chemist who led the American Chemical Society and chaired the board of the National Science Foundation.

Physicist Pearl I. Young was the first woman hired for a technical position at the NACA.

On June 18th, 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she launched on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Padmasree Warrior has been hailed by Fortune magazine as “the New Queen of the Electric Car Biz”

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

Dr. Shannon Walker is an accomplished astronaut, and she’s also an aquanaut.

Wang Zhenyi was a Chinese astronomer, mathematician, and poet born in 1768 and despite the social philosophy of the time she was an avid reader and thinker.