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Biography

Florence Bascom

Florence Bascom was a barrier-breaking geologist who contributed to the field through her research and teaching.
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Lesson Plan

Stitched Stories: Women in History

Students will create textured portraits using simple materials to explore identity, emotion, and overlooked stories while connecting artistic practice with empathy and historical awareness.
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Lesson Plan

POWER UP! Art, Text, Action!

Students will create a 3-dimensional artwork using words or phrases to communicate their thoughts, hopes and dreams for a future world based on the artwork and life of Sister Corita Kent.
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Biography

Kelly Clark

Kelly Clark is a five-time Olympian, Olympic gold medalist, and X Games legend, who championed equality in winter sports through launching the Kelly Clark Foundation.
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Biography

Andrea Ghez

Andrea Ghez is one of the world’s leading experts in observational astrophysics and was awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for her discovery of a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way’s center. She is also a fierce advocate for women in STEM.
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Biography

Rosalyn Yalow

Yalow built her career as a physicist in mid-20th-century America, a time when women faced systemic barriers in science, and became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Biography

Virginia Apgar

Dr. Virginia Apgar persevered beyond early 20th-century barriers to women in medicine to become a leading anesthesiologist and the first female full professor at Columbia University.
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Biography

Helen Taussig

Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig was a pioneering American cardiologist best known for developing the first successful open-heart surgery to treat "blue baby syndrome."
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Biography

Anna Julia Cooper

Anna Julia Cooper was a groundbreaking educator, activist, and author who changed the trajectories of many young Black women .
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Lucy Diggs Slowe

Lucy Diggs Slowe was an educator and administrator who paved the way for many African American women in education.
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Biography

Susan G. Komen

Susan G. Komen's name became synonymous with breast cancer awareness throughout the 90s and early 2000s, but who was Susan G. Komen?
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Biography

Gerda Lerner

Gerda Lerner, the “godmother of women’s history,” fled Nazi-occupied Austria and became an accomplished historian and advocate for female scholars.
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