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    1. Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Nicole Little

      • Date: February 10, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    3. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

      • Date: October 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words

      • Date: July 10, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had

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    7. Director of Collections at the Hirshhorn, Sarah Stauderman, is a paper and a/v conservator who built the first time-based media preservation suite at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Sarah Stauderman

      • Date: November 25, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Director of Collections at the Hirshhorn, Sarah Stauderman, is a paper and a/v conservator who built the first time-based media preservation suite at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    9. Forensic Anthropologist, Kari Bruwelheide solves cold cases—some as old as 10,000 years! She and her colleagues develop new ways to interpret evidence from bones and burials and are currently solving mysteries from the days of the earliest English settlements in America. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Kari Bruwelheide

      • Date: December 31, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Forensic Anthropologist, Kari Bruwelheide solves cold cases—some as old as 10,000 years! She and her colleagues develop new ways to interpret evidence from bones and burials and are currently solving mysteries from the days of the earliest English settlements in America. #Groundbreaker

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    11. Janet Douglas, Head of Technical Studies at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies works of art and archaeology especially inorganic materials such as stone, jade, and metal. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Janet Douglas

      • Date: December 30, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Janet Douglas, Head of Technical Studies at the Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies works of art and archaeology especially inorganic materials such as stone, jade, and metal. #Groundbreaker

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    13. Wildlife physiologist Kim Terrell, at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation Biology Institute, is studying how climate change impacts hellbenders, the largest salamander in North America.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Kim Terrell

      • Date: January 21, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Wildlife physiologist Kim Terrell, at the Smithsonian National Zoo's Conservation Biology Institute, is studying how climate change impacts hellbenders, the largest salamander in North America.

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    15. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Janine Brown is head of the world's largest wildlife reproductive endocrinology lab, and is dedicated to improving the welfare and breeding management of endangered species. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Janine Brown

      • Date: December 10, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Janine Brown is head of the world's largest wildlife Reproductive Endocrinology Lab, and is dedicated to improving the welfare and breeding management of endangered species. #Groundbreaker

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    17. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute endocrinologist Sarah Putman monitors reproductive hormones found in female giant panda Mei Xiang’s urine to help time natural breeding and/or artificial insemination. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Sarah Putman

      • Date: November 26, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Sarah Putman, an endocrinologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Sarah Putman, a.k.a. the "Poop Sleuth," monitors the panda's feces for reproductive hormones to help time natural breeding and/or artificial inseminations

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    19. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

      • Date: April 8, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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    21. Botanist and Curator, Dr. Vicki Funk of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany, directs the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program. She specializes in the Compositae (Sunflower family), focusing on the evolution and biogeography of plants of South American highlands. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Vicki Funk

      • Date: July 22, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Senior Scientist Vicki Funk, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Department of Botany, directs the Biological Diversity of the Guiana Shield Program and specializes in the evolution and biogeography of plants of the South American highlands. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Maya Yamato, a Peter Buck Postdoctural Fellow at the Smithsonian, is studying baleen whale ears to understand how ocean noise pollution may be affecting marine mammals living in a rapidly changing ocean environment. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Maya Yamato

      • Date: December 24, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Maya Yamato, a Peter Buck Postdoctural Fellow at the Smithsonian, is studying baleen whale ears to understand how ocean noise pollution may be affecting marine mammals living in a rapidly changing ocean environment. #Groundbreaker

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