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In honour of Hispanic Heritage Month, here’s an evolving list of influential Hispanic and Latinx scientists

September 15th marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month in the U.S., an initiative launched to celebrate the many contributions Hispanic and Latinx people...

by Cheryl

Dr. Zohra Aziza Baccouche, physicist, science filmmaker, and disability advocate, passes away

PHOTO COURTESY: NSBP. Dr. Zohra Aziza Baccouche, the first Black woman to earn a Ph.D. in physics in Maryland and the first blind person...

by Cheryl

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Celebrating Women’s History Month with quotes from female scientists

March is Women's History Month in United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. We're celebrating with quotes from trailblazing women scientists.

by Cheryl

Black History Month STEM pioneers

Black History Month: 17 notable scientists

February is Black History Month. We’ve got a lot of coverage lined up over the next few weeks, but thought we would kick things...

by Cheryl

STEM pioneers

Celebrating Ada Lovelace day

October 13 is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD), an international initiative celebrating the achievements of women in STEM. Founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson, ALD...

by Cheryl

Space STEM pioneers

NASA names headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, space agency’s first Black female engineer

On Wednesday, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, NASA’s first Black...

by Cheryl

STEM pioneers

Learn this rich history: 8 Black STEM trailblazers

Black scientists have made enormous contributions to humanity. With so much saddness and horror going on, we wanted to celebrate people who made the...

by Cheryl

Health STEM pioneers

Chika Oriuwa, the only Black medical student in a class of 259, graduates as valedictorian

Photo courtesy: The University of Toronto In April, soon-to-be Dr. Chika Oriuwa, 26, completed her studies at the University of Toronto’s (U of T)...

by Cheryl

Space STEM pioneers

New NASA telescope will be named after space agency’s first chief astronomer

Nancy Grace Roman (1925-2018), NASA’s first chief astronomer, is known as the ‘Mother of Hubble.’ In a time when women were discouraged from studying...

by Cheryl

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Happy 200th birthday to nursing pioneer, Florence Nightingale

April 12, 2020, marks the 200th birthday of Florence Nightingale, a statistician, mathematician, and the founder of modern nursing. Impressive in any era, Nightingale’s...

by Cheryl

News STEM pioneers

Google honours polio expert Dame Jean Macnamara in its latest doodle

Women’s History Month has come to a close, but Google is extending the celebration a day longer by honouring medical scientist Dame Jean Macnamara (April 1,...

by Cheryl

News STEM pioneers

Why are all photos we see Celebrating STEM superheroes in black & white?

From left to right: Chien-Shiung Wu: nuclear physicist, Ada Lovelace: mathematician, Marie Curie: chemist and physicist, Susan La Flesche Picotte, first Native American Woman...

by Cheryl