The first woman member of the Atomic Energy Control Board of Canada, Sylvia Fedoruk also worked as a professor of oncology and associate member in physics at the University of Saskatchewan before being appointed chancellor of the school in 1986.
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An advocate for women in STEM fields, Natalie Panek is a program advisor and mentor for Cybermentor, an online mentoring program for girls in grades 6 to 12 in Alberta, Canada along with being a systems engineer for space robots at MDA Space.
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Bringing the same rigorous standards used in high quality academic research institutions to the FDA Dr. Frances Kelsey stopped the drug thalidomide from causing serve birth defects in American children and changed the drug approval process at the same time.
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Engineer, artist, and inventor Ayah Bdeir has focused her career on democratizing hardware to make education and innovation more accessible.
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Former Harvey Mudd College President Dr. Maria Klawe is a gifted computer scientist and artist.
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Today we celebrate one of the first female doctors born in Canada was also a pioneer in enzyme kinetics and histochemistry, Maud Leonora Menten.
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It’s Pi Day, and to celebrate we’re introducing you to Dr. Amy Rowat, a UCLA professor who uses food to explain scientific principles.
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Roberta Bondar was both the first neurologist and the first Canadian woman in space.
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