Hey y'all, today we have a special guest for you all. Angie, to Mzzz Hall is a grade school teacher here in Madison and she's telling us about what guided her to become a teacher, the steps involved and what she learned throughout this journey. We talk about teaching strategies and food for thought, like, should Highschool teachers study different strategies to communicate STEM and could the type of training in college education perpetuate gender inequalities in STEM fields later on? Happy listening!

María Andresa Casamayor as an 18th century Spanish Mathematician. Her only work published, Tyrocinio Arithmético, was intended to be a reference guide for the merchants that lived in Zaragoza and traded with other territories. Listen in as Ellen tells Susi more about María Andresa and how incredible she was.

References
Jochim, Mark Joseph.  "News issues 2020: Spain (Women in Science)." Philatelic Pursuits, June 20, 2020.
Practica Español. "The story of the woman who dreamed of numbers and hid under a male pseudonym."
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland. "María Andresa Casamayor de La Coma."
Spain's News Spanish News in English.  "The Numbers of an Advanced."

Hi everyone! Apologies for being a week late, but work has been busy. This week we are featuring Marian Ewurama Addy who was a Ghanaian biochemist and the first host of the National Science and Maths Quiz. She was also the first Ghanaian woman to become full professor of natural science, all of which made her a role model for school girls and budding female scientists in STEM. This will be our last episode with Maia, because she's been busy with fieldwork, so from here on out Ellen and Susi will rock the show :) Happy listening!

References
http://www.s158663955.websitehome.co.uk/ghanaculture/privatecontent/File/traditional%20medicine%20practice.pdf http://www.drcrmishra.com/data/uploads/ebook/56.-prof.-marian-ewurama-addy-ghana-1999.pdf
https://www.chemistryworld.com/culture/ghanaian-biochemistry-tv-star-marian-addy/4011586.article
https://www.ug.edu.gh/news/late-professor-marian-ewurama-addy-honoured’
https://www.modernghana.com/news/539279/importance-of-polytechnic-education-and-the-challe.html

Hi everybody, we're back with a new episode, this week on Marie Curie. We know, Marie needs no introduction and you're probably thinking, aaah, I know that one. Marie had a fascinating life and we promise you, you'll be surprised. If anything, listen to fascinating facts about the Nobel Price, which's origin are less noble than you might think. Marie was the first woman to win a Nobel price, the first woman to win it twice, the first human to win it in two categories, the first woman to get a PhD in France, and the first female professor at General Physics in the faculty of Sciences at Sorbonne university. She's one of our heroes for sure. Happy listening!

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." - Marie Curie

References
https://www.mariecurie.org.uk/who/our-history/marie-curie-the-scientist

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02988-5

https://www.biography.com/scientist/marie-curie

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/537552/facts-about-marie-curie

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/madame-curies-passion-74183598/

https://carnotcycle.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/marie-curie-and-the-miracle-machine/

Angélique Marguerite Le Bousier du Coudray was a midwife in 18th century France. She traveled the country for 30 years, teaching women and men how to properly and safely deliver babies. Despite her huge contribution to the country, not much is known about her personal life, but the mystery seems to only add to our fascination!


References
Campbell, Olivia.  "How a French Midwife Solved a Public Health Crisis." JStor Daily, March 25, 2020.

Gelbart, Nina Rattner. "Midwife to a Nation: Madame du Coudray serves France." In The Art of Midwifery: Early Modern Midwives in Europe, edited by Hilary Marland, 131-151. London: Routledge, 1993.

Gelbart, Nina Rattner. "The Monarchy's Midwife Who Left No Memoirs." French Historical Studies 19, no. 4 (1996): 997-1023.

Florence Merriam Bailey was an ornithologist and author who created the first modern field guide to birds. She is best known for her detailed guide to the birds of New Mexico, which she wrote after years of field studies and travels in the early 1900s. Her approach to field ecology and bird conservation were unique and, we think, still relevant almost one hundred years later! Listen in for some discussion on shotgun ornithology, the formation of the Audubon Society, and the experiences of women on scientific collecting trips. 

Today we are discussing the story of Fannie Lou Hamer. Fannie was an impactful civil rights activist. You might be thinking now, wait a minute, what does that have to do with STEM? Well she also founded Freedom Farms, which was a local agricultural community that provided food, housing and education to her local people who were struggling to survive, especially because of practices like sharecropping, as well as retaliations by landowners for trying to pursue their right to vote. She has been extremely influential in community outreach and hence well deserves a spot in the STEMinism world. Happy listening folks :)

References
White, M. M. (2018). Freedom farmers: agricultural resistance and the Black freedom movement. UNC Press Books.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/28/republicans-party-of-civil-rights

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

 https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fannie-lou-hamers-dauntless-fight-for-black-americans-right-vote-180975610/

Through her groundbreaking work as a chemist, Alice Ball changed the lives of thousands of people. She was the first black women to receive a master's degree from the University of Hawaii and she became a professor at the age of 23. However, her story was very nearly lost to history. We are excited and honored to be among the people now celebrating her achievements and role as a pioneering STEMinist in the 1920s. 

Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose work as a computer and star identifier was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification. Her system of ranking stars as O, B, A, F, G, K or M, with "O" being the hottest stars and "M" the coolest is still used today.

References
Payne Gaposchkin, Cecilia. “Annie Jump Cannon.” Science, 1941, 93:2419, 444
Mack, Pamela Etter. “Women in Astronomy in the United States 1875-1920” (1977). Publications. 7, 21
Welther, Barbara L. “Highlights of an Exhibit to Honor Annie Jump Cannon.” 87
Greenstein, George. “The Ladies of Observatory Hill: Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin.” The American Scholar, 1993, 62:3, 444
Bowler, Sue. “Annie Jump Cannon, Stellar Astronomer.” Astronomy & Geophysics. 2016, 57:3. 3.14

We are super excited to bring this story to y'all! In this episode we are discussing the story of Eunice Newton Foote, a true scientist (not an amateur scientist) who was a pioneer of Climate Change research. Her discovery of the Greenhouse effect that occurs with the presence of CO2 in the atmosphere was groundbreaking, but was almost left unnoticed. She found that higher levels of atmospheric CO2 trapped more heat from radiation. Even though her research was published as short papers in several American and European journals, John Tyndall, who is often cited as the discoverer of climate change science, did not cite her work. Eunice Foote's work was left unnoticed until 2011, when researchers dug up her paper from the archives, discovering that her work set the foundation for climate change science today.

References

• Wikipedia, New York Times, The Times, Royal Society of Chemistry,
• All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
• Foote, Eunice, (1856). Circumstances affecting the heat of the Sun’s rays: Art. XXXI, The American Journal of Science and Arts, 2nd Series, v. XXII/no. LXVI, p. 382-383
• Jackson, Roland. (2019). Eunice Foote, John Tyndall and a question of priority. Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science, 0(0), 20180066.
• Mariotti, Annarita. (2019). Celebrate a female pioneer. Nature Correspondence, v.571, p.174.
• Sorenson, R.P., (2011). Eunice Foote’s pioneering research on CO2 and climate warming: Search and Discovery Article # 70092 (2011), 5
• Tyndall, John, (1859). Note on the transmission of heat through gaseous bodies: Proceedings Royal Society of London, v. 10, p. 37-39