https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh March is Women's History Month! en-us 2021-03-18 15:30:23 UTC 2026-02-22 08:35:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f469-1f52c.png martelscience https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1326101158 Research a female scientist from the website (below) and explain their contributions to the field of STEM. Include a picture of the scientist.

]]> 2021-03-18 15:31:31 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1326101158 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339200509 Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman in space on the space shuttle Discovery in 1993 and logged almost 1,000 hours in orbit. As a research engineer, she focused on optical systems. She went on to serve as Director of NASA's Johnson Space Center.

- Salome Chica]]> 2021-03-22 17:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339200509 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339206663 Marie Curie is remembered for her discovery of radium and polonium, and her huge contribution to finding treatments for cancer.

- Erin Williams]]> 2021-03-22 17:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339206663 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339207207 Patricia E. Bath, an ophthalmologist and laser scientist, was an innovative research scientist and advocate for blindness prevention, treatment, and cure. Her accomplishments include the invention of a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco, the creation of a new discipline known as "community ophthalmology," and appointment as the first woman chair of ophthalmology in the United States, at Drew-UCLA in 1983.
-Katherine Mejia ]]> 2021-03-22 17:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339207207 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339208392 Mary Elizabeth Anderson was an American real estate developer, rancher, viticulturist and inventor of the windshield wiper blade. On November 10, 1903 Anderson was granted her first patent for an automatic car window cleaning device controlled from inside the car, called the windshield wiper.

-Carlos Alba]]> 2021-03-22 17:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339208392 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339209560 Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-born American actress, inventor, and film producer. She appeared in 30 films over a 28-year career in Europe and the United States, and co-invented an early version of frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication, originally intended for torpedo guidance. - yasmine]]> 2021-03-22 17:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339209560 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339214216 Barbara McClintock June 16, 1902 – September 2, 1992 was an American scientist and cytogeneticist who was awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. McClintock received her PhD in botany from Cornell University in 1927. There she started her career as the leader in the development of maize cytogenetics, the focus of her research for the rest of her life. From the late 1920s McClintock  studied chromosomes and how they change during reproduction in maize. ]]> 2021-03-22 17:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339214216 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339216525 Virginia Apgar, M.D., the first woman to become a full professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, designed the first standardized method for evaluating the newborn's transition to life outside the womb—the Apgar Score. Newborn babies still benefit from Dr. Virginia Apgar's groundbreaking research into the effects of anesthesia during childbirth and advocacy on the prevention of birth defects.

-Jonathan Rosales]]> 2021-03-22 17:24:15 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339216525 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339221106 Gleason began helping out in her father’s toolmaking business when she was 11 years old. She briefly attended Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, in 1884 and 1888. Returning to her father’s business, she became secretary and treasurer of the firm in 1890. Her position made her the firm’s chief sales representative as well, and she was evidently the first woman to travel in such a line of goods. Her representation of the firm in the United States and Europe helped bolster its profits and made possible an expansion of the factory.



-Alexa Castaneda


]]> 2021-03-22 17:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339221106 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339223410 Linda Brown Buck is an American biologist best known for her work on the olfactory system. She was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, along with Richard Axel, for their work on olfactory receptors. She is currently on the faculty of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle -David Vargas

]]> 2021-03-22 17:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339223410 samkha343 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339231056 Amalie Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra. She discovered Noether's theorem, which is fundamental in mathematical physics. She invariably used the name "Emmy Noether" in her life and publications.]]> 2021-03-22 17:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339231056 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251370 2021-03-22 17:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251370 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251371 2021-03-22 17:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251371 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251392 2021-03-22 17:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339251392 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339255665 Ruth Rogan Benerito was an American chemist and pioneer in bioproducts. Benerito is credited with saving the cotton industry in post-WWII America through her discovery of a process to produce wrinkle-free, stain-free, and flame-resistant cotton fabrics. In addition to this work, Benerito also developed a method to harvest fats from seeds for use in intravenous feeding of medical patients. 
-Valerie]]> 2021-03-22 17:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339255665 wc109440 https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339257977 When Hillary Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2001, she became the first American first lady to win a public office seat. In 2016, she became the first woman in U.S. history to become the presidential nominee of a major political party.

]]> 2021-03-22 17:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1339257977 martelscience https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1340201039 The discovery of DNA's structure relied on the work of Rosalind Franklin.  She had nearly figured out the molecule’s structure when Maurice Wilkins, a researcher she worked with, showed one of Franklin’s X-ray images to James Watson and Francis Click. 

Watson, Crick and Wilkins won a Nobel Prize in 1962 for their discovery. Franklin was excluded.]]> 2021-03-22 21:08:22 UTC https://padlet.com/martelscience/oytrwu8wh1rpz0lh/wish/1340201039