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  1. 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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  3. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Diane S. Littler

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

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  5. Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin (1900-1979), astrophysicist at Harvard College Observatory, was known for her research on stellar spectra.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Cecilia Helena Payne Gaposchkin

    • Date: March 5, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  7. Pioneering aeronautical engineer Laurel van der Wal (d. 2009) (later Laurel van der Wal Roennau) won the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award in 1961 when she was head of bioastronautics at Space Technology Laboratories. The Los Angeles Times named her 1961 Woman Scientist of the Year.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Laurel van der Wal

    • Date: August 27, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  9. 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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  11. May Gorslin Preston Slosson (1858-1943) was a noted suffragist and the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy in United States (Cornell University, 1880). Her graduate thesis was titled

    Women in Science Wednesday: May Gorslin Preston Slosson

    • Date: February 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  13. 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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  15. 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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  17. Paleontologist Dr. Johanna

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Johanna "Tilly" Edinger

    • Date: November 18, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Paleontologist Dr. Johanna "Tilly" Edinger was the founder of the field of paleoneurology, the study of brain evolution, and discovered that mammalian brains left imprints on fossil skulls, allowing paleoneurologists to discern their anatomy. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer

    • Date: July 6, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Christine Mullen Kreamer, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, National Museum of African Art, is an expert on both traditional and contemporary African art. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand and blue sleeveless dress.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece

    • Date: November 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator of Music and Performing Arts, Dr. Dwandalyn R. Reece, National Museum of African American History and Culture, created their inaugural music exhibition, Musical Crossroads, and co-curated the grand opening music festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration. #Groundbreaker

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  23. Black & white photo of anthropologists holding up world's longest beard.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme

    • Date: February 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker

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