π₯π¬ 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
π¬β¨ 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
π± 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. π± Rachel always…

#PhysicsFriday with Chien-Shiung Wu
π¬ 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. π¬ Chien-Shiung earned her…

#TBT with Mary Golda Ross
π¬π βI was brought up in the Cherokee tradition of equal education for boys and girls.β π¬π Mary Golda Ross was the first Native-American engineer, with her work as an…

#WCW with Dr. Ciara Sivels
π¬ 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. Navyβs 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
π©πΎββοΈ 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. π¬ Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, which she won in Physics…

#TBT with Mary Jackson (1921-2005)
π Mary Jackson was a mathematician, aerospace engineer, and the first African American female engineer to work at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). π¬π 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
π©πΎββοΈ 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…