Women in STEM

Women in STEM

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Women in STEM episodes

  • Margaret Oakley Dayhoff
    Margaret Oakley Dayhoff has been called the “mother and father of bioinformatics” as she was a pioneer of applying mathematics and computational methods to biochemistry.
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    3 min
  • Sandrine Thuret
    Scientists used to think that the adult brain didn’t change, but Dr. Sandrine Thuret has shown that new neurons are still formed.
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    3 min
  • Linda Morabito
    March 9th is the anniversary of the announcement of the first discovery of extraterrestrial volcanic activity by astronomer Linda Morabito.
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    3 min
  • Sylvia Wiegand
    Dr. Sylvia Wiegand has expanded a successful career in mathematics to also help promote other women working in math and academia.
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    3 min
  • Margaret Chan
    Dr. Margaret Chan has faced many challenges as the director-general of the World Health Organization.
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    3 min
  • Michelle Buchanan
    Michele Buchanan is hoping to change the world through her research into energy, and her work at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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    3 min
  • Lynn Margulis
    Lynn Margulis’ first paper was rejected 15 times before it was finally published, but her theories of symbiogenesis made a huge impact.
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    3 min
  • Claire Voisin
    Dr. Claire Voisin is one of the world’s leading researchers in complex algebraic geometry.
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    3 min
  • Kitty O’Brien Joyner
    Kitty O'Brien was the first female engineer hired by NACA, the predecessor of NASA.
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    3 min
  • Margaret Knight
    Margaret Knight nearly didn’t get credit for an invention that changed the world: the first machine made to create flat bottomed paper bags.
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    3 min