🏥🔬 Susan La Flesche Picotte was the first Native American to become a doctor in the United States. Susan was born and grew up on an Indian reservation, which were…
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#SpaceSunday with Cecilia Payne
🔬✨ Cecilia Payne was the first person to earn a doctorate in astronomy from Harvard University and later became the first woman to serve as the Chair of the Department…
#SustainabilitySaturday with Rachel Carson
🌱 Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist, conservationist, and author who wrote Silent Spring and other works on environmental pollution that advanced the global environmental movement. 🌱 Rachel always…
#PhysicsFriday with Chien-Shiung Wu
🔬 Chien-Shiung Wu was a Chinese-American physicist who provided the first experimental proof that parity is not conserved in weak subatomic interactions of nuclear beta decay. 🔬 Chien-Shiung earned her…
#TBT with Mary Golda Ross
🔬🚀 “I was brought up in the Cherokee tradition of equal education for boys and girls.” 🔬🚀 Mary Golda Ross was the first Native-American engineer, with her work as an…
#WCW with Dr. Ciara Sivels
🔬 Dr. Ciara Sivels made history, becoming the first black woman to earn a Ph.D in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2018. At the time, University of…
#TechTuesday with Rear Admiral Grace Hopper
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper is the U.S. Navy’s oldest active-duty officer, who developed the first compiler for a computer programming language, along with UNIVAC I and COBOL. Grace was an…
#MedMonday with Dr. Jane C. Wright
👩🏾⚕️ Dr. Jane C. Wright was a pioneering cancer researcher and surgeon remembered for her contributions to chemotherapy. Jane created a technique that uses human tissue culture rather than lab…
Marie Curie
Marie Curie is one of the most well-known and accomplished women in STEM. 🔬 Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, which she won in Physics…
#TBT with Mary Jackson (1921-2005)
🚀 Mary Jackson was a mathematician, aerospace engineer, and the first African American female engineer to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). 🔬🚀 Although the work of…
#TBT with Kono Yasui (1880-1971)
Kono Yasui was a Japanese biologist and cytologist, and the first Japanese woman to receive a doctoral degree in science. Kono’s paper in Zoological Science in 1905 was the first…
#MedMonday with Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee
👩🏾⚕️ Dr. Barbara Ross-Lee was the first African-American woman to serve as dean of an American medical school. Barbara was born in Detroit and raised in a housing project, facing…