By Riya Gohil Alex Stutzman is a third year Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Genetics and Molecular Biology Department. Alex is dedicated to her research in the Dowen and McKay labs at UNC, and also to engaging diverse scientists to address the racial injustices that exist in […]
By Zoe Terwilliger Carolyn Parker was the first African American woman to receive a graduate degree in physics. Carolyn Parker was born on November 18, 1917 in Gainesville, Florida. She was born into a family of other incredible scientists. Her father, Julius A. Parker was a medical doctor, who was the second African American to […]
By Carolina Herrera Doctor, engineer, and NASA astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison has always reached for the stars. Dr. Jemison became the first black American woman to be admitted into NASA’s astronaut training program and to travel into space aboard the Endeavor space shuttle on mission STS47 on September 12, 1992. Her path to becoming an astronaut, […]
By Jenna Beam When I started researching Percy Julian for this article, I was amazed by all the information I found. Dr. Julian was a member of the National Academy of Science, has been listed on “Inventors Who Changed the World” by DePauw University, and was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. He […]