💻Kathryn Finney is the founder and Managing Director of DigitalUndivided, which develops programs to increase the participation of urban communities in the digital space and runs tech entrepreneurship programs for…
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Today’s Google doodle celebrates pioneering physicist Hedwig Kohn!
🔬 “As a Jewish woman living in Nazi Germany, Kohn was barred from her teaching position in 1933. She spent the next several years fulfilling research contracts in industrial physics…
#TBT with Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
🔬Ellen Swallow Richards was an American chemist and the founder of the home economics movement in the United States. Ellen earned her A.B. from Vassar College in 1870 before becoming…
#WCW with Dr. Lilia Abron
🔬Lilia Ann Abron is a chemical engineer and the CEO and founder of PEER Consultants. Lilia’s parents were a school principal and teacher, instilling the importance of education to their…
Equal Pay Day – April 2, 2019
Today is Equal Pay Day, which is how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year. 🔬 Women in America still make…
International Transgender Day of Visibility 🏳️🌈
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility and we’re celebrating the trans members of the STEM community, like Lynn Conway 💻 Lynn Conway studied physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology…
Happy #nationaldoctorsday
👩🏽⚕️ An excellent occasion to honor Dr. May Edward Chinn 🔬 Dr. May Edward Chinn spent her career researching cancer, helping to develop the Pap smear and advocating for early…
#TBT honoring Claudia Alexander (1959-2015)
🔬Claudia Alexander was a geophysicist and planetary science research scientist. Claudia worked for the United States Geological Survey and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and served as the final project manager…
Muslim Women’s Day – Honoring Anousheh Ansari
Today is Muslim Women’s Day! The STEM community, as well as the world at large, is better for having Muslim women in it and we stand in solidarity 365 days…
#SpaceSunday 🚀
Valentina Tereshkova is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to go into space, piloting Vostok 6 in 1963!
#SustainabilitySaturday
♻️🌱Last month, Rose Torphy became a junior ranger for Grand Canyon National Park. At 103, Rose is actually older than the park itself! While visiting her granddaughter who works at…
#WCW with Dr. Ayana Johnson
🔬Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson is a marine biologist, policy expert, strategist, and Brooklyn native. Ayana founded Ocean Collectiv, a consulting firm for conservation solutions grounded in social justice. Ayana is…