Cecilia Grierson was the first woman to earn a Medical Degree in Argentina, where she struggled to study medicine during a time when women were barred from medical school. Cecilia…
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#MakerMonday with Alison Pincus
Alison Pincus is an entrepreneur and co-founer of One Kings Lane, a home decor website that was sold to Bed Bath and Beyond, and Hello Mazel, which is a Jewish…
#TBT with Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019)
️Dr. Patricia Bath was the first black woman to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first black woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention. Patricia’s patent…
#MechMonday with Bertha Lamme
Bertha Lamme was the first American femaile mechanical engineer. Bertha earned her degree in mechanical engineering from the Ohio State University in 1893, as only the second woman in the…
#MathMonday with Melba Roy Mouton
Melba Roy Mouton was the Assistant Chief of Research Programs at NASA’s Trajectory and Geodynamics Division in the ’60s and headed a group of NASA mathematicians called “computers”. Melba graduated…
Frances Oldham Kelsey
Frances Oldham Kelsey was a scientist responsible for preventing American sales of thalidomide, which was found to have caused birth defects. Frances graduated from McGill University with her Bachelor of…
#MathMondays with Thyrsa Frazier Svager
Thyrsa Frazier Svager earned her Bachelors in Mathematics from Antioch College before getting her Masters and PhD in Mathematics from Ohio State University. Thyrsa was one of the very first…
#MedMonday with May-Britt Moser
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist who helped discover grid cells in the brain and won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with her husband, Edvard I. Moser….
#MedMonday with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi
#MedMonday with Francoise Barré-Sinoussi Francoise Barré-Sinoussi is a French virologist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 2008 for her discovery of HIV. Francoise’s studies discovered…
#MedMondays with Dr. Katherine Flores
️Dr. Katherine Flores was born into a family of migrant farm workers in Fresno, California. After witnessing inequalities at an early age, Katherine was determine to make a difference. Katherine…
#MathMondays with Etta Zuber Falconer
Etta Zuber Falconer graduated from Fisk University with a major in mathematics and a minor in chemistry before getting her Masters Degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and…
#MedMonday with Dr. Edith Perez
June is Pride month, and an opportunity to highlight the LGBTQ+ members of the STEM community.⠀ 🏳️🌈👩🏽⚕️ ️Dr. Edith Perez is a cancer specialist and internationally known translational researcher. Edith…