Posts tagged ‘women in science’

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Esther Orozco, cell biologist, winner of the 1997 Pasteur medal, and a 2006 laureate of the L’Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is E. Lucy Braun, who published 180 articles in 20 journals during her career, but is perhaps most widely remembered for her 1950 book Deciduous Forests of Eastern North America.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Fan Chung, leading combinatorics and graph theory researcher, and Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at UC San Diego.

I agree that having multiple “identities” is a huge asset to my work and creative abilities, bu I feel like… why are they making such a big deal about this, as if it’s some hugely abnormal thing. Why do people insist on compartmentalizing people into single skill sets?

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Annie Jump Cannon, luminary in astronomical research and stellar classification.

Angela Zhang of Cupertino won a $100,000 scholarship for her cancer fighting research. In her project, Zhang aimed to design a targeted gold and iron oxide-based nanoparticle with the potential to eradicate cancer stem cells ...

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are Moran Paldi, game designer; Leena van Deventer, gaming writing; and Catriona Wimberley, medical physics student.

Linkspammed today: is geek feminism feminist enough, pronoun swap the Internet, and racism in Silicon Valley.

Linkspammed today: being a fan of problematic sources, being a black geek, and being a woman investor.

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This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Margaret Dayhoff, quantum chemist and bioinfomatics pioneer.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Women are historical scientist Mary Whiton Calkins and living scientist Elizabeth Spelke, both of whom have done work to debunk the Variability Hypothesis.

This week’s Wednesday Geek Woman is Mahananda Dasgupta, award winning professor of physics at the Australian National University, and the first woman to hold tenure at her research school.

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