Introductions Necessary

With no formal training in astronomy, Williamina Fleming’s contributions to the field are numerous and groundbreaking.

Conservationist and activist Jane Goodall has studied primates in the Gombe National Park in Tanzania since the 1960s and her work has fundamentally changed our understanding of primate behavior.

Today is World Autism Day and we would like to introduce you to  Dr. Temple Grandin who is not only an expert at designing cattle management facilities but is also a prominent author and speaker on autism.

It’s April 1st, 2016 and we’d like you to meet astrophysics, pilot, and USAF Colonel Samantha Carter.

Today we meet the first Indian woman to study Western medicine, Anandibai Gopalrao Joshi.

Today, we’d like to introduce the co-founder of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, Susan Solomon.

Driven to become a scientist by a love of labs, the building of things with one’s own hands, and learning what no one else knows; neurobiologist Cornelia Bargmann uses simple roundworms to study complex neuron pathways.

Alice Hamilton chose medicine so that she could “be of use anywhere.” She used her skills to help usher in sweeping changes in worker’s safety throughout the U.S.

This native of the United States capital had a life devoted to service in the fields of education and social reform.