Women in STEM

Women in STEM

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Women in STEM episodes

  • Heidi Hammel
    Astronomer Heidi Hammel began to love astronomy in college, and now has done extensive studies of Neptune and Uranus.
    Image: Bill Ingalls / NASA (CC BY 2.0 DEED)
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    3 min
  • Hélène Langevin-Joliot
    Hélène Langevin-Joliot had quite a family legacy to live up to as the daughter and granddaughter of Nobel Prize winners, but she wasn’t deterred and has made her own impression on the world of physics.
    Image: Lionel Allorge (CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED)
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    3 min
  • Irène Joliot-Curie
    As one of the daughters of Marie and Pierre Curie, Irene Joliot-Curie was raised in the spotlight of the groundbreaking work of her parents, but still managed to make breakthroughs of her own, earning a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935.
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    3 min
  • Mary Jackson
    Mary Jackson carved her own career path in engineering at NASA before switching roles to help others rise to the top.
    Image: Bob Nye / NASA
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    3 min
  • Anne McLaren
    Through her work in developmental biology, Anne McLaren helped develop the methods that would allow human in vitro fertilization.
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    3 min
  • Rosalind Franklin
    It’s DNA day, and we’re celebrating the life and work of Rosalind Franklin, who helped discover the molecular structure of DNA, RNA, and even viruses.
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    3 min
  • Emmanuelle Charpentier
    Emmanuelle Charpentier is a Nobel Prize winning microbiologist who helped create CRISPR/Cas9.
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    3 min
  • Jennifer Doudna
    An investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1997, Dr. Jennifer Doudna has been responsible for bettering our understanding of the functions of RNA and for helping develop CRISPR/Cas9.
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    3 min
  • Joan Brennecke
    Today is Earth Day, and we’re celebrating the work of Dr. Joan Brennecke, who is researching ways to use ionic liquids to develop green processes.
    Image Courtesy of the University of Texas at Austin.
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    3 min
  • Alice Larkin
    As a climate researcher, Dr. Alice Larkin is connecting her academic research to policies in various areas to help deal with a changing planet.
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    3 min