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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
The Raw Science Film Festival has moved to New York City! The 2024 Awards Ceremony is on October 5 - 6, 2024. The festival includes film screenings, workshops, panels, and a pink carpet Awards Ceremony. The festival brings together people across science, technology, entertainment, and media worldwide to showcase best-in-class film and media from around the globe. Read more.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Announcing the 2024 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars.
The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2024 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, celebrating seven early-career leaders in the biomedical sciences whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. The Rita Allen Foundation has been an important funder of our annual RFS awards in Science. Read more. (Image via Rita Allen Foundation)
Apply today for BII & Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women's Health.
The prize seeks to recognize researchers who have developed innovative advances with translational potential to impact women’s health. Researchers who have advanced development of new solutions that can be readily deployed in low- and middle-income countries are encouraged to apply. Read more.
‘She was right, and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin showed stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium, contradicting the scientific orthodoxy of the 1920s, which held that they were made of an array of elements. Read more.
Embracing Risk to Accelerate Better Health Outcomes for Everyone.
ARPA-H Director Dr. Renee Wegrzyn explains how ARPA-H makes pivotal investments in high-risk, high-reward ideas that cannot be achieved through traditional research or investment. Read more. Watch her RFS presentation here: Room at the Top: Leadership at the Federal Level. (Image via ARPA-H)
The 2025 Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) Meeting Program Committee invites proposals for Scientific Symposia and Individual Talks.
The Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) is a unique scientific organization that seeks to enhance knowledge of sex/gender differences by facilitating interdisciplinary communication and collaboration among scientists and clinicians of diverse backgrounds. Read more.
2024 Joanna Fowler Award Winners Announced.
The Chemistry Division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Brookhaven Women in Science (BWIS) have named Paris Watson of Johns Hopkins University, Michele Myong of Brookhaven Lab, and Edelmy Marin Bernardez of Stony Brook University as the recipients of the 2024 Joanna Fowler Award in the Chemical and Biochemical Sciences. (Image: Paris Watson, Michele Myong, and Edelmy Marin Bernardez). Read more.
Crafting tales of science with Theanne Griffith.
Theanne Griffith can’t help thinking in stories. After having her first child, Griffith decided to push her love of storytelling further by writing a children’s book. Seven years later, she has published 15 books as part of two series: a nonfiction chapter book series, “Ada Twist, Scientist: The Why Files,” and her own fiction series called “The Magnificent Makers. Read more.
SpaceX's private Polaris Dawn mission will set altitude record for female astronauts.
Two women astronauts will set a spaceflight record next week, if all goes according to plan. Polaris Dawn's four-person crew includes female mission specialists Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon, both of whom are SpaceX engineers, as well as male pilot Scott "Kidd" Poteet. Read more.
Dr. Geri Donenberg was named NIH Associate Director for AIDS Research.
Dr. Geri Donenberg was among the first to establish the role of mental health in adolescent HIV risk taking and to design and implement HIV prevention interventions for youth with mental health distress. She will join NIH this October to lead the advancement and coordination of HIV/AIDS research at NIH, working closely with NIH Institutes and Centers. Read more.
For men only? Lack of women winners for million-euro science prize draws protests.
At a June ceremony in the scenic Swiss village of Villars, three scientists each collected a huge new prize: 1 million Swiss francs ($1.1 million) to invest in their research to safeguard the planet against various environmental tipping points. All the winners of this year’s Frontiers Planet Prize (FPP), with a cash award bigger than the Nobel Prize, were men, just as they were last year. Read more.
Because of Her Story Interns Uplifted Women’s History Across Smithsonian.
This paid, eight-week internship program offered students or recent graduates the opportunity to be involved in programs across the Smithsonian—from the National Zoo to the National Postal Museum—to support projects that amplify women’s voices and contributions throughout history to tell a more complete American story. Read more.
Apply for the 2024 Paula Kantor Award.
Nominations are now open for the 2024 Paula Kantor Award for excellence in research. Nominate exceptional women researchers under the age of 40 who are citizens of countries located in a low- or middle-income country. Read more.
The American Public Health Association announces 2024 awards for excellence in public health.
“We’re excited to present these prestigious awards to those working tirelessly to improve public health across the country and around the globe. Their innovation, leadership and advocacy demonstrate a deep commitment to public health and health equity,” said Georges C. Benjamin, MD, executive director of APHA. Read more.
How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects.
Maria Sibylla Merian’s beautiful and disturbing illustrations, which shaped how we look at the natural world, will be on show at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum. Read more.
Fatima Cody Stanford Receives the 2024 Meritorious Award.
“I am so thankful to the National Medical Association for selecting me as the 2024 Meritorious Award Recipient. This award is given for noted national and international achievement and prominence. In my work in obesity, nutrition, and fitness, I help reduce bias and stigma, which are particularly prominent for those with excess adipose and particularly those of African descent,” says Fatima Cody Stanford. Read more. Image via Harvard Medical School.
FASEB’s Excellence in Science Awards honor outstanding women scientists.
Do you know an outstanding woman scientist who is committed to the professional development of others, her scientific society, and the broader biological and biomedical science community? Nominate them for the 2025 FASEB Science Excellence Awards. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
For the first time, women make up 50% of Caltech's incoming undergraduate class.
In a historic milestone for Caltech, the incoming undergraduate class will comprise 50% women. The class of 2028 is the first to reach gender parity since the Institute began admitting female undergraduates in 1970, and includes 113 women and 109 men, according to admissions data. Read more.
Celebrating women's participation in STEM: Breaking barriers and building futures.
To encourage women's participation in STEM fields from an early age, NSF funds innovative projects, such as Rural Girls in STEM, SciGirls and Sci Girls Code. Image: The Emmy Award-winning television show "SciGirls," produced by Twin Cities Public Television and supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is the only PBS series built on best practices for engaging girls ages 9-13 in STEM. The show features real girls that viewers can relate to. Credit: SciGirls, Twin Cities Public Television. Read more.
Checking in on Pandemic Impact on Women in Science.
Before the pandemic, less than 30% of the world’s STEM researchers were women. When the lockdowns started, it didn’t take long for warning signs about women’s ability to get their work done to emerge, including in science. Now that it’s been a few years, Hilda Bastian checked in to see how gender diversity seems to be faring. Read more.
Immunotherapy pioneer inspires audience as UTSW’s first Mendelson Visiting Professor.
Every year, the Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee (WISMAC) selects an influential researcher for the Distinguished Visiting Professor Keynote Lecture. Dr. Bollard’s decades of work on cellular therapy made her an ideal choice for the 2024 WISMAC event. Read more.
How moms may be affecting STEM gender gap.
Women have been underrepresented in science and technology fields, and new research suggests a somewhat surprising possible contributing factor: the influence of moms. “Mothers have the strongest effect on their daughters in pushing them away from STEM fields and into humanistic fields,” said Michela Carlana, Harvard Kennedy School assistant professor of public policy. Read more. Photo courtesy of Michela Carlana.
STEM Girl Summer Shows High School Students a Future of Possibilities.
Even today, women remain underrepresented in STEM careers, especially in male-dominated fields like physics, engineering and mathematics. University of California San Diego graduate student Robin Glefke hopes to change that with STEM Girl Summer. Read more.
A final story that celebrates a woman’s ideas and achievements.
Obituaries of scientists are much more often about men than women. Communications Earth & Environment is initiating a series of articles highlighting the lives and work of women scientists, aiming to inspire the next generation with their stories and career paths. Read more.
Anneke Levelt Sengers: An international authority in the thermodynamics of fluids and a passionate advocate for women in science.
Johanna Maria Henrica (Anneke) Levelt Sengers, a Dutch American physicist, an international authority in the thermodynamics of fluids and fluid mixtures, especially near critical points, and a passionate advocate for women in science, passed away at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, Maryland on February 28, 2024, a few days shy of her 95th birthday. Image Credit: The National Institute of Standards and Technology Digital Collections. Read more.
Review: How a Group of Women Launched Modern Cosmology.
A new biography of astronomer Henrietta Leavitt celebrates the meaning of making in science. Fans of Hidden Figures and The Glass Universe will appreciate Anna Von Mertens’s captivating portrait of Henrietta Leavitt and the Harvard Computers, who laid the foundation for modern cosmology at the turn of the 20th century. Read more.
Summer Interns Help Illuminate Impact of Disease on Marine Life.
The Quantitative Marine Disease Ecology Lab hosted three interns this summer. As a team they made strides in understanding the health and climate impacts of marine diseases and advancing the tools scientists use to study them. Read more.
Isabella Weber, associate professor of economics, has been awarded the 2024 Ellen Meiksins Wood Prize.
The prize, established by Ed Broadbent and the Broadbent Institute in 2017 in honor of distinguished author and academic Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood, recognizes outstanding academic contributions in political theory, social or economic history, human rights and sociology. Image: Isabella Weber and Jen Hassum, executive director of Broadbent Institute. Photo by Jack McClelland, Broadbent Institute. Read more.
Professor Emerita Mary-Lou Pardue, pioneering cellular and molecular biologist, dies at 90.
In 1983, Pardue was the first woman in the School of Science at MIT to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. In the 1990s, Pardue was also one of 16 senior women on MIT’s science faculty who co-signed a letter to the dean of science claiming bias against women scientists at the Institute at the time. Read more.
Sex bias in pain management decisions.
Researchers present robust evidence showing that physicians’ and nurses’ pain management decisions in emergency departments disfavor female patients compared to male patients. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Susan Wojcicki, Former Chief of YouTube, Dies at 56.
Susan Wojcicki, who played a key role in Google’s creation and became one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent female executives with her leadership of YouTube, died on Friday. Her sister Anne was a founder of the genetic testing firm 23andMe. Read more.
Groundbreaking poverty alleviation project expands with new Arnold Ventures, J-PAL North America collaboration.
J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), will significantly expand its work to conduct rigorous research and strengthen evidence-based policymaking due to a new grant from long-time supporter and collaborator Arnold Ventures. Image: Laura Arnold, founder and co-chair of Arnold Ventures (right) and MIT Professor Esther Duflo, scientific director of J-PAL, speak during J-PAL North America’s 10-year anniversary convening. Photo courtesy of J-PAL North America. Read more.
Now open: Applications are currently being accepted for the Jefferson Science Fellowships.
Established in 2003 by the Secretary of State, the Jefferson Science Fellowships serve as an innovative model for engaging the American science, engineering, and medical communities in the U.S. foreign policy and international development process through a one-year immersive experience at the U.S. Department of State or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Read more.
Quantum computing aims for diversity, one qubit at a time.
Girls in Quantum is one of a handful of initiatives aimed at increasing representation in quantum computing, which is one of the fastest-growing disciplines in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). Image: Irene Fernández de Fuentes (center) co-founded the Australian charity Quantum Women. Credit: Sydney Quantum Academy. Read more.
$100M gift to establish William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences.
The College of William & Mary has announced a $100 million gift from local philanthropist Jane Batten to transform its School of Coastal & Marine Sciences at the public university’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS). Read more.
Dr. Carolyn M. Hutter was selected as Director of the NIH Office of Strategic Coordination.
Dr. Carolyn M. Hutter brings more than 20 years of experience in genetics and epidemiology as well as managing large research collaborations. She is currently the Director of the Division of Genome Sciences at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). Image credit: National Institutes of Health. Read more.
This Researcher Is on a Crusade to Correct Wikipedia’s Gender Imbalance.
Physicist Jess Wade explains the importance of recognizing female scientists on Wikipedia. She’s created more than 2,000 Wikipedia articles to do just that. In this episode of The Lost Women of Science Initiative, Wade talks about what she does and why she does it. Read more.
Maxine Singer obituary: biologist who shaped genetic engineering and fought discrimination.
The US molecular biologist Maxine Singer made discoveries about the role of enzymes in assembling genetic material. She became a key advocate for dialogue between scientists and society. In later life, as an influential scientific administrator, she championed the cause of marginalized people in science and founded innovative programmes to support science teaching in schools. She has died aged 93. Image credit: National Institutes of Health. Read more.
Clarissa May Babila on Using “Packages” from Cells to Diagnose Brain Diseases.
Clarissa May Babila is part of the Wyss Diagnostics Accelerator, using extracellular vesicles to better understand diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, with the eventual goal of finding a way to diagnose them earlier. Learn more about Clarissa and her work in this month’s Humans of the Wyss. Image credit: Wyss Institute at Harvard University. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
RFS Awards in Science Recognize Outstanding Contributions from Women and Minorities
We are thrilled to announce a new publication honoring the scientists receiving the 3rd Annual Rosalind Franklin Society Awards in Science!
In partnership with Mary Ann Liebert Inc., we launched this prestigious annual award in 2021. It recognizes the best paper by a woman or underrepresented minority in science in each of the publisher’s 100 peer-reviewed journals. Our goal is to highlight the important contributions of these scientists and provide role models and mentors for younger scientists following in their footsteps. Read more.
Anthology of the RFS Awards in Science 2023
The anthology includes a biography of each winner and an abstract of their selected work. A total of $100,000 has been allocated for these award winners. The book is a remarkable compendium of research in science, engineering, and medicine that has been accomplished by outstanding investigators who, early in their careers, were not considered “real” scientists, engineers, or medical researchers because they did not fit the stereotypical scientist, engineer, or physician role.
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Stay safe and sound,
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Women’s Health Access Matters (WHAM) Announces Dr. Elizabeth Garner as Strategic Advisor to The WHAM Research Collaborative.
Dr. Elizabeth Garner brings an impressive background in scientific research and innovation. She is the immediate past president of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) and was formerly Chief Scientific Officer at Ferring Pharmaceuticals. Read more. Image credit: WHAM
The Burroughs Wellcome Fund announces 2024 Career Awards at the Scientific Interface.
This year, 12 young scientists will receive awards of $560,000 each over five years to support their transition from postdoctoral training into independent faculty positions. Read more.
OMRF receives $3 million to study anti-aging supplement.
An Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation scientist has received a $3 million grant to explore a pathway to better heart health as we age. Ann Chiao, Ph.D., studies a coenzyme called NAD+, which is found in cells throughout our bodies. Read more. Image: Ann Chiao, PhD, OMRF.
Announcing the 2024 Winners of the McNulty Prize.
The McNulty Foundation and the Aspen Institute announced the 2024 John P. McNulty Prize winners––courageous leaders tackling critical issues, from environmental injustice and disaster recovery, to addressing a national crisis of leadership and education. Each of their organizations will receive $150,000 in support of their exceptional efforts. Read more.
HHMI Invests Over $300 Million in 26 New Investigators.
HHMI, a member of the Rosalind Franklin Society, Council of Academic Institutions, just announced its new crop of 26 investigators for 2024. 10 of the 26 are women. Great to see Sam Sternberg and Vijay Sankaran included. Read more.
What Kamala Harris’s historic bid for the US presidency means for science.
The daughter of a scientist and a supporter of diversity in STEM, Harris as a potential candidate has stirred optimism among scientists. Here, Nature talks to policy analysts and researchers about what a potential Harris administration might mean for science, health, and the environment. Read more.
The 2025 Mirzayan Fellowship application is now open!
Launched in 1997, the Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Graduate Fellowship Program is a full-time, hands-on training and educational program that provides early career individuals with the opportunity to spend 12 weeks at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Washington, DC learning about science and technology policy and the role that scientists and engineers play in advising the nation. Read more.
Kathleen Maletic Neuzil: new Fogarty International Center leader.
Kathleen Maletic Neuzil is the new Director of the Fogarty International Center at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD. “I would say having both my parents have serious illnesses and dying when I was young, watching them suffer definitely influenced my desire to go into medicine”, she says. Read more. Image: Dr. Neuzil, Fogarty International Center at NIH.
“It's actively harmful for a platform like HPCwire to publish lists completely erasing women's contributions over the years.”
Chris Dwan was an RFS speaker, and you can watch his presentation here. He recently wrote a post on LinkedIn: “HPCwire just released a list of "luminaries who have made HPC what it is today." They honored both the living and the dead, starting with Seymour Cray and ending with Jensen Huang of Nvidia, 17 people in all. It's remarkable to me that despite the large numbers and vague rules - magazine founder Tom Tabor couldn't think of even one woman who should make his list. Not even one.” Read more.
Apply for the BII and Science Translational Medicine Prize for Innovations in Women’s Health!
The prize seeks to recognize researchers who have developed innovative advances with translational potential to impact women’s health. Read more.
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Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to include another issue of RFS Briefings with some timely and encouraging updates on women in science.
On July 15, we wished a very happy birthday to Dr. Brenda Milner, who at 106 is still working at her prestigious neuroscience institute in Montreal! Brenda Milner is Canada’s preeminent neuropsychologist, having pioneered research into the human brain; many consider her a founder of the field of clinical neuropsychology and cognitive neuroscience. Here is a previous presentation from Dr. Brenda Milner at RFS.
 Image: Brenda Milner/The Neuro (Montreal Neurological Institute-Hospital)
Please continue to share important news and opportunities with us so that we may share it with you and others who are committed to supporting the careers of exceptional women in science.
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
www.rosalindfranklinsociety.org
Meet the Winners of the Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation 2024 Essay Contest and Read the Essays.
Read the winning essays and listen to the authors discuss who inspires them, what is the most interesting part of doing research, and what they predict the next big thing in their field to be. Read more.
Endowments commits $9.3 million to improve the region’s climate, environment, health outcomes.
Grants focused on environment and health work include $950,000 to Women for a Healthy Environment for initiatives that inform parents about the dangers of children’s exposure to harmful chemicals during their developmental years; community-based education about how to strive for healthier homes and public spaces; and the 1,000 Hours a Year program, which focuses on lead and radon remediation at places where children learn. Read more.
Celebrating Great Immigrants, Great Americans.
Every Fourth of July, Carnegie Corporation of New York celebrates remarkable Americans — all naturalized citizens — who have enriched and strengthened our democracy through their actions and contributions. Along with the Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, Viviana Gradinaru (Professor of Neuroscience and Biological Engineering at Caltech) has received the Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists and the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, and in 2017 she was the Early-Career Scientist Winner in the Innovators in Science Award in Neuroscience from the New York Academy of Sciences. Read more. Image credit: Vilcek Foundation.
HHMI Names 50 Gilliam Fellows in Milestone Year.
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a member of our Council of Academic Institutions, congratulates 50 graduate students in science and their advisers who were named to the 2024 cohort of the Gilliam Fellows Program on July 9. These student-adviser pairs are recognized for their outstanding research as well as their commitments to advancing equity and inclusion in science. Read more.
BARDA DRIVe Request for Information (RFI) on Strategies for and Barriers to Developing a Single-Dose Vaccine for Pandemic Influenza is Now Live.
BARDA’s Division of Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe) seeks information on current research efforts in developing single dose vaccine formulations to enhance preparedness against pandemic influenza and other emerging pathogens. The availability of single-dose vaccines that could be applied against these pathogens would significantly simplify vaccination campaigns, reduce the burden on healthcare systems, and help reduce morbidity, mortality, and societal disruption. Read more.
Professor Edith Heard appointed the new Director and Chief Executive of the Francis Crick Institute.
The Francis Crick Institute announced the appointment of Professor Edith Heard as its new Director and Chief Executive. Professor Heard, who has led the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) since 2019, is expected to take up the post in summer 2025. Read more. Image credit: The Francis Crick Institute.
Maxine Singer, Guiding Force at the Dawn of Biotechnology, Dies at 93.
Maxine F. Singer died at her home in Washington, D.C. She was a biochemist and federal health official who in the 1970s was instrumental in developing guidelines that protected the then-nascent field of biotechnology while calming fears that this new science would give way to the spread of deadly lab-produced microbes. Read more.
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars Fellowship Nomination period is open.
The Warren Alpert Distinguished Scholars program will support individual postdoctoral scientists of exceptional creativity in the field of neurosciences. Scholars will be chosen on the basis of the success in their prior post-doctoral work and other research as well as in the importance and creativity of their proposed future research. Read more.
Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation Elects Biomedical Research Pioneers Mary-Claire King and Katalin Karikó to its Board of Directors.
“We are incredibly pleased to welcome two legendary scientists and champions of biomedical research to the Lasker Foundation Board,” said Lasker Board Chair Betsy Nabel, M.D. “Both have made remarkable discoveries and life-saving contributions to humanity. They are model advocates for accelerating pathways in medical research – a commitment which sits at the core of the Lasker Foundation mission.” Watch Dr. Katalin Karikó talk about her pioneering research in mRNA vaccine technology. Read more. Image: Katalin Karikó, Penn Medicine (left) and Mary-Claire King, New York Genome Center (right).
Push and pull: how to measure the forces that sculpt embryos.
Studies like those of Amy Shyer, a mechanobiologist who co-directs a laboratory at Rockefeller University in New York City, demonstrate the ability to monitor and measure the physical forces that shape embryonic development. Read more.
Benefiting 1.5 billion Diabetics and Obese Patients Worldwide Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science Honoring Three Scientists.
Svetlana Mojsov has won this year's Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science for her discovery of GLP-1 and its critical role in the regulation of insulin secretion and blood glucose. Read more. "(Image: The Rockefeller University)"
Global Gender Gap Report 2024.
The global gender gap score in 2024 for 146 countries stands at 68.5% closed. Women’s representation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and non-STEM workforces has increased since 2016, yet women remain underrepresented in STEM roles, comprising only 28.2% of the STEM workforce. Read more.
Get Creative: Coloring Women Pioneers in STEM!
Learn about the scientific discoveries and leadership of leading immigrant women in science and medicine, including: Cognitive neuroscientist Biyu J. He, Pediatrician and environmental health advocate Mona Hanna-Attisha, and Katalin Karikó—whose work led to the development of safe and effective mRNA vaccines! This bold book also includes a resource list of organizations that support diversity and empower women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Read more.
Mildred Thornton Stahlman, Pioneer in Neonatal Care, Dies at 101.
Dr. Mildred Thornton Stahlman, a Vanderbilt University pediatrician whose research on fatal lung disease in newborns led to lifesaving treatments and to the creation, in 1961, of one of the first neonatal intensive care units, died on Saturday at her home in Brentwood, Tenn. Read more.
We are pleased to welcome the first members of our new Council of Corporate Leadership!
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