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  1. Dr. Mary Hagedorn, research scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, created the first genome repository for endangered coral species and has distributed this germplasm to frozen banks around the world. If necessary, these banks could one day help reseed our oceans. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary Hagedorn

    • Date: November 12, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Mary Hagedorn, research scientist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, created the first genome repository for endangered coral species and has distributed this germplasm to frozen banks around the world. If necessary, these banks could one day help reseed our oceans. #Grounbreaker

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  3. Botanist and Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Herbarium, Dr. Mireya Correa, received the Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany offered by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium, and Emeritus Scientist of the Year offered by Asociacion para el avance de la Ciencia. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mireya Correa

    • Date: March 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Botanist and Director of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Herbarium, Dr. Mireya Correa, received the Jose Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany offered by the Department of Botany and the United States National Herbarium, and Emeritus Scientist of the Year offered by Asociacion para el avance de la Ciencia. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Dr. Paula DePriest, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, and lichenologist, travels to Mongolia each year to build GIS data of the Mongolian region as part of a larger cultural heritage effort at the Smithsonian to create GIS databases for archaeological and historical sites. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Paula DePriest

    • Date: February 24, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Paula DePriest, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, and lichenologist, travels to Mongolia each year to build GIS data of the Mongolian region as part of a larger cultural heritage effort at the Smithsonian to create GIS databases for archaeological and historical sites. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Dr. Pepi Fabbiano is Senior Astrophysicist, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She studies normal galaxies and their different X-ray emission components; XRB populations; hot ISM and mass measurements of early-type galaxies; and the connection between galaxy environment and nuclear activity. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Pepi Fabbiano

    • Date: February 4, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Pepi Fabbiano is Senior Astrophysicist, High Energy Astrophysics Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. She studies normal galaxies and their different X-ray emission components; XRB populations; hot ISM and mass measurements of early-type galaxies; and the connection between galaxy environment and nuclear activity. #Groundbreaker

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  9. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's Rachel Collin, Evolutionary Biologist and Director of their Bocas Del Toro Research Station, studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Rachel Collin

    • Date: April 8, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Center's Dr. Rachel Collin, Evolutionary Biologist and Director of their Bocas Del Toro Research Station, studies the evolution of marine gastropods (snails) and oversees multiple disciplines of marine biology at the Collin Lab in Bocas del Toro. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1989) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research with the naming of a geographic feature, Landrum Island. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Betty Jane Landrum

    • Date: June 3, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memoriam: Betty Jane Landrum, longtime partner and wife of reference archivist, Ellen Alers. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1974) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research

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    SIA Acc. 13-103, Smithsonian Science Information Exchange, SSIE Science Newsletter, 1973-1979

    • Date: 1973 1973-1979
    • Creator: Smithsonian Science Information Exchange
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

    • Date: August 20, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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  17. Alma Whiffen Barksdale (1916-1981) worked as a mycologist at The Upjohn Company, where she discovered cycloheximide, an anti-fungal agent widely used on golf courses and cherry orchards.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Alma Whiffen Barksdale

    • Date: September 10, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  19. Zoologist Ann Haven Morgan (1882-1966) was the author of Fieldbook of Ponds and Streams (1930) and Animals in Wonder (1939) and was known for her contributions to environmental conservation.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Ann Haven Morgan

    • Date: May 7, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  21. Bertha Parker Pallan [Cody] (1907-1978) is considered one of the first female Native American archaeologists. She hosted a television program with her husband, Iron Eyes Cody (1904-1999), explaining Indian history and folklore.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Bertha Parker Pallan

    • Date: January 8, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  23. In 1963, Chien-shiung Wu (1912-1997 was considered one of the world's foremost experimental physicists and her team's experiments confirmed the theory of sub-atomic behavior known as

    Women in Science Wednesday: Chien-shiung Wu

    • Date: April 16, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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