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...
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...
Dr. May-Britt Moser is the founding Director of Centre for Neural Computation and Co-Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience. She received the 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for the identification of grid cells which contribute to the brain’s coordinate system and make it possible for the brain to determine its...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re featuring Evelyn Carmon Nicol (1930-2020) a molecular biologist and immunologist whose work led to the development of multiple medical testing kits including one for HIV and led her to become one of the first African Americans to obtain a patent in molecular biology. She fought discrimination and sexism...
This week for WiSE Wednesday we’re featuring Dr. Judith R. Walters, a Senior Investigator at the NIH National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke and Chief of the Neurophysiological Pharmacology Section. Dr. Walters received her bachelors from Mt. Holyoke College and did her Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale University researching the neurophysiology of...
