Renee Sher, ’07, Assistant Professor of Physics, Promotes Girls in Science
The Girls in Science Camp builds a community of friends and female role models ranging from high school students to undergraduate students to Wesleyan faculty.
Profiles
Evelyn Fox Keller, Who Turned a Feminist Lens on Science, Dies at 87
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.
Kamala Sohonie’s 112th Birthday
Today’s Doodle celebrates the 112th birthday of Indian biochemist Dr. Kamala Sohonie. She was the first Indian woman to achieve a Ph.D in a scientific field during a time when Indian women were conspicuously underrepresented in scientific disciplines. By breaking barriers and proving her doubters wrong, Dr. Sohonie not only did pioneering work in her … Read more
Jocelyn Velasquez Baez ‘23 talks Traditional Medicine, Indigenous Knowledge, and Decolonizing Western Science
“I want to be a leader and represent my specific community,” Baez said. “I want to take part in the movement to diverge [medicine] from Western ideologies, and set up an Indigenous way of running research.”
Professor Ellen Thomas Talks Winning Frontiers of Knowledge Award, Female Representation in the Sciences, and Fossil Restoration on Campus
Ellen Thomas was originally told at her alma mater, the Utrecht University in the Netherlands, that women couldn’t study earth sciences. But she refused to let this stop her.
Overlooked No More: Alice Ball, Chemist Who Created a Treatment for Leprosy
After she died — and just a year after her discovery — another scientist took credit for her work. It would be more than half a century until her story resurfaced. By Delthia Ricks This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The … Read more
Fa’alataitaua Fitisemanu ’24 Talks Lab Research, Attending Conferences, Gaining Confidence, and Building Community
Fitisemanu, who is Samoan, initially worried about feeling out of place, but he quickly found a welcoming community of scientists working to support each other in their professional endeavors.
How the first Black woman to help discover an element ‘claimed a seat at the periodic table’
“Mae started it all for me,” said Phelps, who in learning about Jemison realized she – a Black girl from Nashville’s Edgehill public housing – could reach for big dreams, too.
Strength in Numbers and the Power of Microbes, Meet Dr. Raquel Bryant
“Collective action is actually possible,” Bryant said, “this is something I learned from microbes.”