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    1. In 1954, Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Lt. Col. Pauline Kirby

      • Date: January 1, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    3. Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert (b. 1909) was an astronomer at Harvard College Observatory where she discovered three new ring nebulae in the Milky Way in 1936.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Muriel E. Mussells Seyfert

      • Date: August 6, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    5. Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire (1893-1950) was a plant pathologist known for her work on sugar cane diseases.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Ruth Colvin Starrett McGuire

      • Date: August 13, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    7. Dora Jean Dougherty Strother (b. 1921)

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dora Jean Dougherty Strother

      • Date: August 21, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    9. Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance (1878-1959), M.D. and professor of pathology

      Women in Science Wednesday: Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance

      • Date: December 25, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    11. Plant physiologist Helen Kemp Archbold Porter (1899-1987) was the first woman to hold a chair at the Imperial College of Science and Technology. She became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1956.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Helen Kemp Archbold Porter

      • Date: July 30, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    13. Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N. (1892-1994), a pioneer in public health nursing, s

      Women in Science Wednesday: Marion Winifred Sheahan, R.N.

      • Date: November 20, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A weekly feature highlighting a groundbreaking woman in science.

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    15. Marjorie Van de Water (1900-1962) won several journalism awards for diligent coverage of advances psychology and sociology.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Marjorie Van de Water

      • Date: February 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    17. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Diane S. Littler

      • Date: May 24, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    19. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

      The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

      • Date: November 17, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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      Everything Always Looks Good Through Here

      • Date: February 9, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: John Waters’s 1998 movie Pecker is the coming-of-age story about a young man who can’t stop himself from taking pictures. “Man, everything always looks good through here!” Pecker exclaims, squinting through his viewfinder and throughout most of the film, it does. Photography is all about looking, and when it was time to invite someone to address the subject of voyeurism for

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      Do You See What I See?

      • Date: August 13, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1872" align="aligncenter" width="263" caption="Eyeball 1, by loonyhiker, 2009."][/caption] At some point, everyday, I scan the Internet for stories about photography’s role and impact in culture. It turns out that in addition to all the images that are out there to be seen, there are surprising numbers of reports circulating about the power of those

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