Margaret Knight was an American inventor. To help support her family, Margaret worked in the mills. It was in the mills that Margaret witnessed a horrible accident and began to work…
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#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…
#TBT with Ruth Ella Moore (1903-1994)
Ruth Ella Moore was the first African American woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in the natural sciences. Ruth earned her B.S. and M.S. from Ohio State…
#SpaceSunday with Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor
Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor is a flight surgeon for NASA. Serena was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 2009 and graduated from Astronaut Candidate Training in 2011. Serena spent 2…
#TBT with Tabitha Babbitt (1779-1853)
Tabitha Babbitt was an American Shaker inventor. Tabitha invented the circular saw after seeing how hard it was to use a pit saw, which only cut one way. Tabitha was a…
#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…
Missy Cummings is the director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory at Duke University, where she is also an associate professor. Missy was one of the US Navy’s first female…
#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…
#SpaceSunday with Dr. Ellen Stofan
Dr. Ellen Stofan is an astrobiologist and former Chief Scientist of NASA. Ellen’s research has focused on the geology of Venus, Mars, Saturn’s moon Titan, and Earth. In the ’90s,…
Dr. Karen Panetta
Dr. Karen Panetta is a computer engineer, the Dean of the Graduate Education for the School of Engineering at Tufts University, and founder of the international “Nerd Girls” Program. Karen…
#TBT with Josephine Cochran, the inventor of the first workable dish washing machine.
Josephine Cochran is the inventor of the dishwasher. However, she was not the first one to patent it. In 1850, a man patented a wooden machine with a hand-turned wheel…
#TechTuesday with Carol Shaw
Carol Shaw is the first female video game designer and creator, best known for her best-selling game ‘River Raid’ (1982), which was published by Activision for play on the Atari…