Community Documentary Night for Black History Month
For this event we are meeting to talk about the documentary, Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA
For this event we are meeting to talk about the documentary, Woman in Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek and the Remaking of NASA
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.
Oxford University Press is proud to support diverse voices across our publishing. In this collection, we shine a spotlight on the representation of women in scientific fields, the gains that have been made in their fields, from research and major discoveries to advocacy and outreach, and amplify the voices of women who have made a … Read more
Trained as a physicist and biologist, she argued that science had become gendered, with a narrow masculine framework that distorted inquiry.
I am conducting dissertation research to explore the experiences of Black women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) related undergraduate, graduate, or professional STEM majors/programs.
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.
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
“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.
“Collective action is actually possible,” Bryant said, “this is something I learned from microbes.”