2 min readWoman of the Week: Chien Shiung Wu- First woman to serve as the president of the American Physical Society - Was awarded the National Medal of Science Born in 1912 in...
1 min readWoman of the Week: Anna Decosta Banks- superintendent of Nurses for the Hospital and Training School of Nurses for 32 years - gave African Americans access to health care...
1 min readWoman of the Week: Kalpana Chawla- first Indian born woman to go to space - awarded the “Congressional Space Medal of Honor” Born in 1972, Kalpana Chawla was an engineer...
2 min readWoman of the Week: Susan La Flesche - first Native American woman to earn a medical degree - worked to educate people on public health issues