In July 2022 Maryna Viazovska became the second woman and the first person with a degree from a Ukrainian University to win the prestigious Fields Medal in Mathematics. She was born in Kyiv and showed great mathematical promise from a very young age. Viazovska won the Fields Medal for solving the sphere packing problem...
This WiSE Wednesday’s feature is about Katalin Karikó, Ph.D. – a world-renowned biochemist whose work on developing non-immunogenic, nucleoside-modified RNAs paved the way for modern-day vaccines, including the first COVID-19 vaccines. Karikó came from humble beginnings in Kisújszállás, Hungary, where her father was a butcher and her mother was a bookkeeper. During her childhood, it...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re featuring Angeline Dukes, Ph.D. the President and Co-Founder of Black in Neuro, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at UMN, and Co-director of MINDS post-bac program. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Historically Black College/University (HBCU), Fisk University, in 2017. She recently defended her Ph.D. in Christie...
“It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place,’ in science (and thus their invisibility to even experienced historians of science) was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part, it was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.” – Margaret...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re featuring Dr. Marthe Gautier who passed away last month at the age of 96. She was a pediatric cardiologist and a long-forgotten key contributor to the discovery of trisomy 21 and its role in Down Syndrome. It is not uncommon to hear of women scientists of the 1950’s...
