Women in STEM

Women in STEM

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Women in STEM episodes

  • Betty Harris
    Dr. Betty Harris has been a teacher and researcher since earning her BS in chemistry at the age of 19.
    Image: Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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    3 min
  • Beatrix Potter
    Before she was enthralling children with tales of a mischievous rabbit Beatrix Potter was delving deep into the world of mycology.
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    3 min
  • Ruth E. Dayhoff
    Ruth E Dayhoff is a licensed physician, a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics, and the daughter of Dr. Margaret Dayhoff.
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    3 min
  • Janna Levin
    Many people love to marvel at the beauty of the cosmos that is observable with our eyes – but what about the beauty that is observable with our ears? Dr. Janna Levin says that the universe has a soundtrack that is played on space itself.
    Image: Fronteiras do Pensamento (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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    3 min
  • Georgeanna Seegar Jones
    July 25th marks the birth of the first child conceived using in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to couple in England. The first American child born by IVF was thanks to the team of Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones and her pioneering career in obstetrics and reproductive health.
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    3 min
  • Frances Oldham Kelsey
    Bringing the same rigorous standards used in high quality academic research institutions to the FDA Dr. Frances Kelsey stopped the drug thalidomide from causing serve birth defects in American children and changed the drug approval process at the same time.
    Image: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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    3 min
  • Eileen Collins
    Eileen Collins is one of only two women to ever command a space shuttle mission.
    Image: NASA.
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    3 min
  • Lindley Winslow
    In the 2016 film Ghostbusters, much of the sets from Dr. Erin Gilbert’s lecture equations to Dr. Jillian Holtzmann’s lab equipment were the real deal, courtesy of science consultants like MIT Assistant Professor of Physics Lindley Winslow.
    Image via MIT Department of Physics
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    3 min
  • Margaret Hamilton
    July 21st marks the anniversary of man first stepping on the moon and the software that made it possible was created by a team led by Margaret Hamilton.
    Image: NASA.
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    3 min
  • Frances “Poppy” Northcutt
    Making the decision to major in mathematics in college was two-fold for Frances “Poppy” Montgomery first she had an aptitude for the subject, but she also had an eye on her future employment opportunities. Knowing that mathematics was still considered a man’s job she went into it thinking that it would open careers that would keep her out of what was considered traditionally women’s work.
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    3 min