🌎Mari Copeny is a 12-year-old activist, known as Little Miss Flint, who has been fighting for her hometown of Flint, Michigan since the city’s 2014 water crisis. The Flint water…
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TBT with Josephine Yates (1852/9 – 1912)
🔬 Josephine Yates a chemist and educator. She was one of the first black teachers hired at Lincoln University and the first black woman to head a college science department,…
#TBT with Alma Levant Hayden (1927 – 1967)
Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist. Alma became one of the first black women to work as a scientist for an agency in Washington, D.C. when she joined the…
#TBT with Mary Sherman Morgan (1921-2004)
Mary Sherman Morgan was a rocket fuel scientist who took a job designing explosives while studying chemistry at Minot State University during World War II. During the 1950s, Mary was…
#MedMondays with Cecilia Grierson (1859-1934)
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…
#TBT with Maria Telkes (1900-1995)
Maria Telkes was a Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor who invented the first solar-power heating system. Maria earned her BA and doctorate in physical chemistry at the University of Budapest before…
#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…
#TechTuesday with Lauren Mosenthal
Lauren Mosenthal is a product designer and engineer. In 2014, Lauren co-founded Glassbreakers, a diversity and inclusion enterprise software and a women’s peer-to-peer mentoring network. Lauren went on to lead…
PopCultureSTEM with Lisa Kudrow
Although the character that Lisa Kudrow is most well-known for doesn’t have a STEM degree, the actress herself has a degree in biology from Vassar College! During the beginning of…
#TBT with Zelia Nuttall (1857-1933)
Zelia Nuttall was an American archaeologist. In exploring her mother’s Mexican ancestry, Zelia because her archaeological studies. It was Zelia’s paper on small terra-cotta heads found at Teotihuacan that gained…
#TechTuesday with Tracy Sun
Tracy Sun is the co-founder of Poshmark, a peer-to-peer fashion resale platform. Although Tracy earned her degree in biology and psychology from Columbia University, she earned her MBA from Dartmouth…
#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…