🔍 Zonia Baber was a geographer and geologist, who emphasized learning through field work and experiments. Zonia was an associate professor and heady of geography and geology at the University…
#SustainabilitySaturday with Mari Copeny, Little Miss Flint
🌎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…
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…