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2013 A Gazette From the National Women’s History Project Volume 5 Catalog Inside

Dear Friends - Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination, our 2013 Women's History Month theme, recognizes American women's outstanding contributions to the !elds of , technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). We are proud to honor eighteen women whose pioneering work includes scienti!c breakthroughs, -saving discoveries, invention of new technologies, creation of organizations, and the promotion of women and girls in STEM. Unfortunately, women remain largely underrepresented in many STEM professions and academic programs. In this gazette we highlight many organizations and programs working to promote women's and girls’ interest and participation in STEM. From engaging elementary students in STEM to !ghting pay discrimination, their efforts are actively working to change the face of STEM. We invite you to explore the many women who have made extraordinary contributions to the STEM !elds. We also encourage you to consider the ways in which you can promote women and girls in STEM. Thanks for your support.

Molly Murphy MacGregor Executive Director and Cofounder National Women’s History Project

What’s Inside:

• 2013 NWHM Honorees • Women Nobel Science Laureates • STEM Organizations • Women’s History Resource Catalog • 2013 NWHM Nominees • NWHP Partners & Underwriters • March Parade

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Dian Fossey (1932-1985) Grace Murray Hopper Louise Pearce (1885-1959) (1956) Primatologist and Naturalist (1906-1992) Physician and Pathologist Atmospheric Chemist (1898-1979) Susan Solomon is and Inventor For 18 years Dian Louise Pearce was T the Ellen Swallow Katharine Blodgett Fossey studied, a physician and Richards was the !rst woman lived amongst, and was a pioneering pathologist with the of atmospheric awarded a Ph.D. befriended the Rockefeller Institute. and in from gorillas of Rwanda. and Rear in Pearce worked on climate science the University of Fossey made many the the team that found at the Institute of Cambridge (1926) discoveries about Navy. Hopper joined a cure for African Technology. Her groundbreaking and the !rst woman gorillas including understanding the Navy Reserve during World Sleeping Sickness (1919) and made research on chloro#uorocarbons research scientist for General gorilla vocalizations, gorilla group War II and worked as one of the a solo trip to the Belgian Congo (CFCs) as the cause of the Electric’s Schenectady, hierarchies and social relationships, !rst programmers of the Harvard to test the new drug (1920). From ozone hole was part of the basis laboratory (1920). Blodgett received and gorilla diet and recycling of Mark 1 Computer. She later wrote 1923 until her retirement in 1951 of the international treaty that has eight US patents, most famously for . Her book, Gorillas in the the !rst she researched susceptibility or e"ectively regulated damaging inventing low-re#ectance "invisible" Mist (1983) documented her intense (1952) and conceptualized resistance to infection with Dr. Wade chemicals. She is also a leader in glass. Her inventions and methods study of these animals and the need COBOL, one of the !rst modern Hampton Brown. Their discovery climate science, and is best known have helped shape modern products to protect them from the constant programming languages (1954). of a transplantable rabbit tumor for seminal work showing that such as camera lenses, computer threat of poachers and neglect. Upon her retirement she was was studied in laboratories climate changes due to human screens, and eyeglasses. awarded the Defense Distinguished around the world. increases in carbon dioxide will last Service Medal, the highest non- Susan A. Gerbi (1944) for more than a thousand years. (1883-1959) Molecular Biologist combat award given by the Electrical Department of Defense. Susan A. Gerbi is the Jill Pipher (1955) Hattie Elizabeth Patricia Era Bath (1942) Edith Clarke was the George Eggleston Mathematician Flossie Wong-Staal (1946) Alexander Ophthalmologist and Inventor !rst woman to earn Professor of Olga Frances Linares Jill Pipher is Virologist and Molecular Patricia Bath’s invention of the an M.S. in electrical at Brown president of Biologist (1901-1968) Laserphaco Probe engineering from University, where her (1936) the Association Flossie Wong- Pediatrician and was an important the Massachusettes research team devised of Women in Staal is one of the Microbiologist milestone in the Institute of a method to map and Archaeologist Mathematics (2011), world’s foremost Hattie Alexander advent of Technology (1919) and the !rst the start site of DNA replication at Olga Linares is a and director of authorities in the developed the !rst cataract surgery. woman professor of electrical the nucleotide level. Her current senior sta" scientist the Institute for Computational !eld of virology. e"ective remedies for Haemophilus engineering in the US (University research suggests that a steroid (emerita) at the and Experimental Research in Bath co-founded the Wong-Staal was a pioneering in#uenzae, reducing the mortality American Institute of Texas at Austin, 1947). Before hormone receptor may play a direct Smithsonian Tropical Mathematics (2011). The ICERM is a researcher of retroviruses and with teaching, Clarke worked much of her rate from nearly 100% to less than for the Prevention of Blindness role for regulating the initiation Research Institute. Her work centers NSF funded mathematics institute her team deciphered the structure career as an engineer for General 25%. Alexander was also among the (1976) committed to “protect, of DNA replication, with potential on the social organization and supporting cutting edge research of the HIV as the cause of Electric. She invented the Clarke !rst to identify and study preserve, and restore the gift of signi!cance to understand the role agrarian practices of the Jola peoples on the intersections of mathematics AIDS. She was the !rst to clone and , a graphical device for antibiotic resistance, which she sight.” She broke ground for both of hormones in certain . She living in the Casamance region of and . Pipher is a professor complete the genetic mapping of solving power correctly concluded was caused by women and African also studies eukaryotic ribosomes, Southern Senegal. Formerly, she also of Mathematics at HIV making it possible to develop equations and is also well known for random genetic mutations in DNA. in medicine and ophthalmology, the cellular factories for protein did research on the and and has research interests in HIV tests. Wong-Staal continues authoring an in#uential textbook on In 1964, she became the !rst woman including being the !rst African synthesis. of Central America. harmonic analysis, partial di"erential her pioneering work in developing power engineering. elected president of the American American woman doctor to receive equations, and cryptography. !rst-in-class therapeutics against Pediatric . a patent for a medical purpose. Helen Greiner (1967) Hepatitis C virus. Rita R. Colwell (1934) Julia Morgan (1872-1957) Mechanical Engineer and Architect Mary G. Ross Marlyn Barrett (1954) Molecular Microbial Ecologist Roboticist Julia Morgan was K-12 STEM Educator and Scienti!c Administrator (1908-2008) Helen Greiner is the !rst woman Marlyn Barrett is Rita Colwell, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineer co-founder and admitted to the a coordinator of (1821-1910) Physician served as the !rst Mary Ross was former President/ architecture science instruction Elizabeth Blackwell woman Director of the !rst woman the National Science Chairman of iRobot program at for Worcester County was the !rst engineer at Foundation (1998- Corporation, a world l'École nationale Public Schools and a fully accredited Lockheed’s 2004), where she leader in supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, project director for a female doctor in Missiles exempli!ed the and military robots, and current CEO and the !rst woman architect grant which provides the United States. Division (1952), importance of STEM of CyPhyWorks. She is also a Trustee licensed in California. Morgan professional development for 135 She, along with and the !rst known by her leadership in K-12 STEM of the Massachusetts Institute of designed over 700 buildings in teachers in 14 counties throughout her sister, Emily, founded the !rst Native American woman engineer. education, graduate STEM education, Technology (MIT) and the California and is best known for . Her responsibilities At Lockheed, Ross designed medical school for women, and the increased participation of Museum of Science (MOS), serves her work on Hearst Castle in San include directing the grant, meeting resulting in greater acceptance missiles and rockets, and developed women and minorities in science and on the Robotics Advisory Board of Simeon. Many of her projects, with other county coordinators of female physicians, more systems for human space #ight and engineering. Colwell has also served Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) including designing numerous and higher education partners, interplanetary missions to Mars and opportunities for meaningful work in many leadership and advisory and Army War College (AWC), and is YWCA buildings and facilities at and teacher training, impacting . After retiring, she began a for American women, and stricter positions for scienti!c organizations a member of the Army Science Board Mills (women’s) College, sought to thousands of Maryland students and second career as an advocate for standards for medical schools as a and government agencies. Her (ASB). advance opportunities for women. inspiring them to become the future women and Native Americans in whole. award-winning scienti!c work is of science. engineering and mathematics. focused on water borne diseases of public signi!cance.

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Living History is a multimedia initiative to inspire Western University Women’s Center promotes gender equity 2012 Awards for Aspirations in Computing Illinois A!liate STEM and science appreciation through Manya: The Living History of through education, support and advocacy and responds to issues along with the NCWIT Pioneer Award Winners Marie Curie, a play written and performed by Susan Marie Frontczak a!ecting the status of female students, faculty and sta! on campus, The Society of Women Engineers: of Storysmith.org. www.mariecurielivinghistory.com as well as women in the community and in society. www.wc.wiu.edu Guided by the principle that “people who build technology should Trumbull County Women’s History Dinner Committee’s purpose is to Harlow Girls PPF is a small, multigenerational philanthropic empower, educate, entertain, honor and celebrate the rich history of represent the people who use it”, the National Center for Women & foundation dedicated to promoting and supporting activism women by uniting the community to acknowledge the contributions Information Technology (NCWIT) is a non-pro#t network of more than For over 60 years the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) has helped in social justice and eco-literacy. www.harlowgirls.org of woman. Contact E. Carol Maxwell at [email protected] 300 corporations, academic institutions, government agencies, and women achieve their full potential in, and demonstrated the value of non-pro#ts working to increase the gender diversity in technology and diversity to, the engineering profession. SWE membership is available Jewish Women’s Archive (JWA)’s mission is to uncover, chronicle, Voices of Media is a video production company specializing and transmit to a broad public the rich history of American Jewish in oral history, documentary and theatrical productions with computing. Increasing gender diversity leads to improved design for to students and professionals and bene#ts include career resources, women by disseminating educational materials, developing part- an emphasis on women’s history, public policy, science, and products to better serve diverse populations and increases business professional development, and networking. In 2012 SWE awarded 198 nerships, and maintaining an innovative website. www.jwa.org technology. voicesofmedia.com new and renewed scholarships totaling more than $550,000. The performance. NCWIT’s e!orts focus on encouraging reform across Kappa Alpha ThetaYesterday, today, and tomorrow, Kappa Alpha Wild West Women/ Ishtar/ Our primary goal is to increase the full educational and career spectrum through targeted outreach organization also presents K-12 outreach programs to inspire the next Theta exists to nurture each member throughout her college and public awareness of women’s achievements and their roles in programs and funding campaigns. Learn more at ncwit.org. generation of women engineers. Learn more at swe.org. alumnae experience and to o!er a lifelong opportunity for social, history and to provide positive public images of women and intellectual, and moral growth. www.kappaalphatheta.org girls. www.wildwestwomen.org The League of Women Voters/Larimer County, CO, a nonpartisan political organization, encourages informed and active citizen par- Women’s History Museum of California ticipation in government, works to increase understanding of major “WOMEN’S MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA”…preserving the public policy issues, and in"uences public policy through education past, inspiring the future www.WomensMuseumCA.org The Association for The Anita Borg Institute: and advocacy. www.lwv-larimercounty.org Women in Science: Like the National Women's History Project on A very special thank you to those who helped underwrite the publication of our 2013 Women’s History Gazette. Facebook to keep up on NWHP programs and enjoy our daily women's history facts. Your generosity helps ensure that the extraordinary and work and in"uence of women will be recognized and will continue to be written into our nation’s History Esther Abe Constance Cordovilla Carol E. Maxwell Maria Solis-Martinez Founded in 1971 to combat Computer scientist and advocate Alexis Abramson Barbara Davis Kim Mo%tt Thomson P. Soule 2013 National Women’s History Project Vol. 5 job discrimination, low pay, for women in tech, Dr. Anita Borg Rima Apple Edna L. Davis Lee Morrison Frances Sowa and professional isolation, the (1949-2003) founded the (Anita Borg) Marie Barbarino , Dolores Eldridge Carol and Mark Norberg Lois Stanton Researched and Written by Association for Women in Science Institute for Women and Technology Phyllis W. Benjamin Vivian Euzent Nancy Nordo! Mary Straight Emily Dieker (AWIS) advocates for public policy (ABI) in 1997 to increase the numbers Barbara Berg Sheryl Flanagin Larry Obar, Jr. Valerie Stewart NWHP Project Manager initiatives advancing women’s of women in tech #elds and increase Susan Biggs Judy Goodale Richard Obar Carolyn Taylor Susan E. Teller Edited by interests and equality in the STEM the amount of tech produced by Laura and Frank Billington Tracy Gorman Doramae O'Kelley Barbara Blaisdell Mary Ann Graf Susanne Otteman Sandra Thompson Molly Murphy MacGregor #elds. Their successes include the women. ABI hosts the annual Grace enforcement of Equal Arlene Blum Carol Gri%th Frances Petschek Marielle Tsukamoto NWHP Executive Director & Co-Founder Hopper Celebration of Women Opportunity laws, creating the #rst Jean Bowling Alan Gross Nasreen Rahim Designed by in Computing (started by Borg in Marian Van Landinghmam Science and Technology Caucus for a Sunny and Willard Bristol Paula Hammett Alice Ramsay Vicki Dougan 1994), presents awards to top tech Bonnie Burn Lynne Harkins Helen Ramirez-Odell Edith Wacksman United Nations Women’s Conference, www.salespromotionusa.com companies for women, and honors Susan Butruille Sharon Hayes Ella L. Ray Carolyn F.Webber and publishing the quarterly AWIS individual women’s innovative tech Patricia Campany Sheryl Herres Patricia Robles-Mitten Mary Werowinski Special thanks toJean Bowlling, Magazine. AWIS o!ers individual work. In 2009 ABI became a partner Hannah Cohen Rebecca Hollingsworth Eva Ross Linda Wharton Robert P.J. Cooney, Jr., Jill Moss Greenburg, members a variety of educational of the US Department of State’s Renee Chanon Pat Jamski Sue Rubio Peg Yorkin Carol Gri!th, Rebecca Hollingsworth, and networking events at both the TechWomen project advancing Christine Cobaugh Elizabeth V. Kane Adeline Sadler Margaret Zierdt Susan Quan, Jeanne Robinson, Kim Salter, national and local chapter levels as Penny Colman Katrina Killefer Katherine Sadler women’s tech work in the Middle In memory of Jon Stockton, Marielle Tsukamoto well as an online career center. Learn East and North Africa. Learn more at Elizabeth Colton Karen Kiselewski Carol Sakavich Mable Obar National Women’s History Project more at awis.org. anitaborg.org. Jeanne Conrad Marie LeBlanc Kim Salter Robert & Maggie Cooney Rochelle Manson Claire Sapiro Dorothy Bloom Pollack 730 Second Street #469 Cathy Cruze BJ Maresca Julia Ann Saugstad Lilian. Shevitz Santa Rosa, CA 95402 Maria Cuevas Sally Matson Linda Shevitz Loretta W. Williams 707-636-2888 www.nwhp.org Matching Funds - Check with your employer to inquire about whether they will match your donation. 14 707-636-2888 www.nwhp.org 15 Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination 2013 Sorority, Incorporated, is celebrating the centennial anniversary of the Sorority’s #rst social action engagement with a reen- actment of their participation in the Women’s Su!rage March of 1913. On March 3, 1913, the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration, the National American Women Su!rage Association held a massive march down Pennsylvania Avenue in support of woman’s su!rage. Organiza- tions from every state participated with "oats, historic reenactments, and great pageantry and each carrying banners representing their state, their organization, and the need for woman’s su!rage.

The only Black women’s organization to walk in the parade was the new- ly formed Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, who bravely and proudly marched under their banner alongside honorary member Mary Church Terrell. Delta Sigma Theta Sorority is organizing the centennial celebration and will be inviting women’s groups who have been engaged in the quest for equality to join them on March 3, 2013. For morel information regarding participation, please email DSTSu"[email protected]. While on the STS-96 Space Shuttle Discov- ery’s #rst docking mis- sion to the Interna- tional (—June 6, 1999) three women crew- members honored the generations of women who had long fought for equal rights. NASA astronauts Tamara Jernigan, Ellen Ochoa, and Julie Payette dis- played one of the original Women’s Su!rage banners (on loan from the archives of the Sewall Belmont House) recognizing that their participa- tion in the mission would not have been possible without the su!rag- ists and countless others who fought for women’s equality.

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