LITERATURE 2018 Olga Tokarczuk Constructs novels in a tension between cultural opposites Ill. Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media. PHYSICS 2018 Donna Strickland Developed a technique that revolutionised laser technology Photo: A. Mahmoud CHEMISTRY 2018… more »
Mary Church Terrell was born Mary Eliza Church on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee. Her parents, Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayers, were both former slaves who became small business owners and a vital part of Memphis’ growing black… more »
Greetings with some good news for the women’s world. Just recently, one of the most prestigious mathematics prizes in the world – The Abel Prize was awarded to a woman for the first time ever. Yes! Karen Uhlenbeck is a mathematician and a professor at… more »
Its’ campus consisted of 16 small buildings in Miami Shores, Florida, with a student body of 1,750 when she became the president in 1981. By the time she retired in 2004, Barry University had become a 55-building multi-campus with 7,000 students and… more »
In 1961 JERRIE COBB was the first of 13 women pilots who passed the same torturous tests as the six other Mercury astronauts (male). In fact she scored in the top 2% of both the women and the men and had more hours as a pilot, and had set more records… more »