Women in STEM

Mary Styles Harris

Dr. Mary Styles Harris has spent her career combining her knowledge as a genetics researcher with a drive to provide health care information to minority populations.

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Amy Arnsten

Dr. Amy F.T. Arnsten leads the Arnsten Lab, studying neuroscience at Yale School of Medicine.

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Cynthia Rosenzweig

Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig has used her expertise in climatology to help study the impact of climate change on agriculture and cities.

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Yvonne Pendleton

Dr. Yvonne Pendleton has spent her career helping us to understand our place in the universe.

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Grace Olive Wiley

Grace Wiley believed that with the right methods even the deadliest snakes could be tamed and by speaking to them and handling them with her bare hands she claimed to have tamed over 300 venomous snakes during her career.

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Mary L. Good

Mary L. Good was an inorganic chemist who led the American Chemical Society and chaired the board of the National Science Foundation.

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Pearl I. Young

Physicist Pearl I. Young was the first woman hired for a technical position at the NACA.

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Sally Ride

On June 18th, 1983 Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she launched on the Space Shuttle Challenger.

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Padmasree Warrior

Padmasree Warrior has been hailed by Fortune magazine as “the New Queen of the Electric Car Biz”

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Valentina Tereshkova

On June 16, 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.

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