Teen Science Cafe recap: Breast cancer research
…women make up the majority of breast cancer cases in America, Black/African American women have the highest cancer incident rates as a percentage of the population. Additionally, the average death…
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Jupiter Ball Through the Years
…blasted into space on the shuttle Discovery, becoming the third African American woman to accomplish this amazing feat. After a 20-year career at NASA, Joan pursued other opportunities before returning…
Hidden No More: Week 19 round-up
…blue baby syndrome. McKinley Thompson, Jr., Car Designer Ford Motor Company hired Thompson in 1956, after he’d completed a degree in transportation design. He was Ford’s first African American designer….
Hidden No More: Week 18 round-up
…70s, she developed a vaccine to combat Pasteurella anatipestifer, a cause of major economic losses in the commercial duck industry. Addison Scurlock, Photographer In the 1900 census, 17-year-old Scurlock listed…
Hidden No More: Week 17 round-up
…$40,000. Onesimus, Medical Advisor Onesimus, an enslaved African in Boston, explained that being inoculated with smallpox gave protection from the disease. He had observed this in Africa. His information proved…
Hidden No More: Week 16 round-up
…her student at West Virginia State College’s laboratory high school, remembered her as “a wonderful teacher.” Flemmie Kittrell, Nutritionist & Educator In 1936, Kittrell became the first African American woman…
Hidden No More: Week 14 round-up
…is the first African American involved in discovering an element. Charles Harrison, Industrial Designer Harrison was responsible for designing 100s of products sold by Sears. The first plastic trash bin…
Hidden No More: Week 13 round-up
…as a research chemist in 1965, she may have been the first African American female chemist employed by Dow at that level. She invented ways to use latexes in products….
Hidden No More: Week 12 round-up
…in indoor climate control to design Radio City Music Hall’s heating system. Marie Daly, Chemist & Educator In 1947, Daly became the first African American woman to earn a chemistry…
Hidden No More: Week 11 round-up
…Yale in 1876, the first time any American university conferred a doctorate on an African American. He went on to teach at Philadelphia’s Institute for Colored Youth for 26 years….