This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re highlighting Dame Elizabeth Anionwu a British nurse and professor of nursing. She was the first nurse specialist on Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia in the UK, both of which are genetic blood diseases which disproportionately impact minority communities. Elizabeth Anionwu knew she wanted to become a nurse at an...
Sarah Tishkoff is the David and Lyn Silfen University Professor in Genetics and Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, holding appointments in the School of Medicine and the School of Arts and Sciences. She is also Director of the Penn Center for Global Genomics and Health Equity. Dr. Tishkoff studies genomic and phenotypic variation...
Have you ever wondered how golf courses maintain their pristine green lawns? You might be surprised to learn that a chemical known as cycloheximide was not only used as an anti-fungal agent for golf courses and fruit orchards, but it has now moved to the benches of modern-day scientists as a useful tool for...
WiSE hosted a professional development workshop in partnership with COACh, called “Career Launch & Acceleration”. The workshop provided great tips for everyone – graduate students, technicians, postdocs, and others thinking about the next step in their career. Workshop description: Seeking and starting that first job as a scientist is a time of great transition and uncertainty....
Betty Holberton was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1917 into a family of 8 children. At the University of Pennsylvania, Holberton studied journalism, because its curriculum let her travel far afield. Journalism was also one of the few fields open to women as a career in the 1940s. On her first day of classes, Holberton’s math professor asked...
