In this final part, we meet the first of the scientists who are still living – and start to see the impact…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 3 – From Birds to Math, Space, & Plants in SpaceRead more
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 2 – From Mushrooms to Physics, a Programming Language, Plants, & BeesRead more
The 5 women in this second part bring us to people born in the 20th century. The 3-part series covers a small…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 1 – From Fossils to the Planets and BackRead more
This 3-part series covers a small selection from the massive legacy of early Ukrainian women scientists’ science, initiative, and courage – 15…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1970s-1990s (Part 3)Read more
This is the last post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1940s-1960s (Part 2)Read more
This is the second post in a series highlighting outstanding women in vaccine science or immunology related to vaccine development in the…
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History The First Century of Women in Vaccine Science: 1900-1930s (Part 1)Read more
Women scientists have had pivotal and leading roles in developing Covid vaccines and been celebrated for it – from Katalin Karikó’s role…
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Covid-19 The Limits of Those Reviews of Masks For All and What We Do KnowRead more
Have you noticed that you see so many pictures of people wearing face masks during the 1918-20 influenza pandemic, but you don’t…
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Covid-19 First in Human: Covid-19 Vaccines & Tales of Phase 1 Clinical Trials PastRead more
The people who sign up for the first-in-human trials of Covid-19 vaccines are about to do our societies an extraordinary service. Most…
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Black History Month Black History Month: Chemists’ Powerful Stories & the Sociologist Who Studied ThemRead more
It was “a large, plain white building”, W.E.B. Du Bois wrote, “on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Rue des…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 4 — From Anthropologists to Academic SurgeonsRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the origin stories of African-American STEM societies, and the amazing people who started…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 3 — From Sociologists to EngineersRead more
This Black History Month, I’ve dug into the founding stories of African-American STEM societies. In previous posts we’ve covered groups from…
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Black History Month Stories of African-American STEM Societies: Part 2 — From Psychologists to MathematiciansRead more
After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in…