#wcw with Mareena Robinson Snowden 🔬👩🏾🎓👩🏾🔬 Mareena Robinson Snowden is the first black woman to earn a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Although she hadn’t…
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#TechTuesday with Audrey Tang
#TechTuesday with Audrey Tang 💻 Audrey Tang is a transgender software developer and self-described “civic hacker” who was appointed to Digital Minister by the Taiwanese government in 2016. Audrey is the…
#MathMonday with Dr. Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932-1995)
#MathMonday with Dr. Vivienne Malone-Mayes (1932-1995) 🔬👩🏾🏫 Dr. Vivienne Malone-Mayes was a mathematician and professor. After taking courses taught by Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville, one of the first African-American women to…
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Sandra Faber
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Sandra Faber ✨ Sandra Faber has helped better understand the brightness of galaxies related to the speed of the stars within them, co-discovered the Faber-Jackson relation, and helped…
#SustainabilitySaturday with Linda Hogan
#SustainabilitySaturday with Linda Hogan ♻️🌍🌏🌎🌱 Linda Hogan is a Chickasaw poet, novelist, and environmentalist. Linda’s writing features themes of the environment and eco-feminism, the relocation of Native Americans, and historical…
#TBT honoring Mary Coston (1826 – 1904)
#TBT honoring Mary Coston (1826 – 1904) 🎇🔬🛠 Martha Coston was an inventor who had an impact on the Civil War with her invention of the Coston Night Signals. Martha met…
Steel-Willed Boots
Being a statistic doesn’t stop at being accepted to college, or when you graduate with your degree, or after you’ve entered the work force, or when you’ve left the work…
#WCW with Debbie Sterling
#WCW with Debbie Sterling 🛠 Debbie Sterling is the founder and CEO of GoldieBlox, which she created to challenge the gender gap between children in STEM and the pink aisle of toy…
#TechTuesday with Tracy Chou
#TechTuesday with Tracy Chou 💻 Tracy Chou is a senior engineer at Pinterest and has been with the company since 2011 when it was still a startup just coming into its own! Tracy…
#MathMonday with Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749)
#MathMonday with Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) 🔬 Emilie du Chatelet grew up in France in a time when it took much convincing to prove to her father her place was in…
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin
#SpaceSunday with Vera Rubin ✨🔭 “There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.” ✨🔭 Vera Rubin was an astrophysicist…