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

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

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  3. Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Maria del Carmen Cossu

    • Date: October 26, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu, seeks to provide all Americans a better understanding of the U.S. Latino experience, and to encourage Latinx museum professionals into the museum field. #Groundbreaker

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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. 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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  9. Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Robin L. Davisson

    • Date: October 28, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Robin L. Davisson, Professor of Molecular Physiology at Cornell University, won the Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Award for excellence in cardiovascular research from the American Heart Association and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is now part of the Smithsonian family. #Groundbreaker

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  11. 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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  13. 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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  15. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  21. 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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  23. Black & white snapshot of Dr. Priscilla Reining smiling.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining

    • Date: January 18, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining, social anthropologist and Africanist, coordinated the Smithsonian's Urgent Anthropology Program, specialized in desertification, population, fertility, and HIV/AIDS, and pioneered the use of satellite imagery in conjunction with ethnographic data. #Groundbreaker

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