Women’s History Month honors the contributions of women to American culture and society. ACS has selected a few of many distinguished women scientists (some still unknown) in history whose dedication ...

How many female scientists can you name ... Alongside her is Mae Jemison, a NASA astronaut and the first African American woman to travel into space. There’s also Maryan Mirzakhani, the first ...

Women have made many truly significant and often dramatic contributions to science ... Frédéric Joliot-Curie. Grace Hopper was an American computer scientist who attained the rank of Rear Admiral in ...

Scientists featured in textbooks are predominantly white men, according to a study. US biology textbooks highlighted seven men for every woman scientist. And black women were not represented a ...

The College of Science understands the value of diversity and the importance of increasing the number of women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. To stay at ...

Long before current concerns over climate change, in 1856, an American woman named Eunice Newton Foote was the first person to theorize that higher carbon dioxide levels would lead to a warmer planet.

Rachel Holloway Lloyd is believed to be the first American woman to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry ... She is one of those instructors who stands not only for a science or a language, but for ideals and ...

Scientist Mária Telkes dedicated her career ... dramatic culmination story of the hard-fought campaign waged by American women for the right to vote, a transformative cultural and political ...

As of 2021, roughly 11 percent of American adults reported smoking cigarettes, with men slightly more likely to smoke than ...