Introductions Necessary

Dr. Hadiyah-Nicole Green is pioneering the use of lasers and nanoparticles to fight cancer.

Aprille Ericsson-Jackson is an aerospace engineer at NASA, and was the first African-American woman to get a PhD in engineering at Howard University.

Dr. Wanda M. Austin started at The Aerospace Corporation as an entry level engineer.  Now she’s the president and CEO.

Dr. Laurel Clark was a decorated Navy medic before she became an astronaut aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.

Four new elements are joining the periodic table.  Three of them thanks to a team led by Dawn Shaughnessy.

Andrea Mueller has always loved racing, and now she’s a lead race engineer in NASCAR helping lead Team Penske to victory.

Thanks to the work of Alice Evans, we can drink milk knowing that it’s been pasteurized to remove harmful bacteria.

Today marks the thirtieth anniversary of the tragic explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger which killed its seven crew members including mission specialist Judith Resnik.

Chemist Lilli Hornig was a member of the Manhattan Project, and witnessed the first atomic bomb tests.

Meet Esther Lederberg, a microbiologist who made many influential discoveries.