Alternate Title: Lady with the Lamp (and Owlet) Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, and Emma tells Emlyn about schoolgirl climate change warrior, Greta Thunberg. WARNING: This episode gets nasty (i.e. war hospitals in the 1800s). PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Florence Nightingale “Florence Nightingale” by History Channel: https...
Mar 18, 2019•55 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Alternate Title: Terracotta Heads and the Island of Sacrifices Emma tells Emlyn about the American anthropologist and archeologist, Zelia Nuttall, who spent her life studying remnants of ancient Mexican civilizations, and Emlyn tells Emma about #MeTooSTEM founder, Dr. McLaughlin, and Project PHaEDRA! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Zelia Nuttall The Archaeologist Who H...
Mar 04, 2019•57 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Alternate Title: The Fairy Godmother of Chemotherapy Emlyn tells Emma about the revolutionary oncologist and surgeon who contributed immensely to chemotherapy, Dr. Jane Cooke Wright, and Emma tells Emlyn about the hidden female figures behind population genetics! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Jane Cooke Wright “WOMEN IN SCIENCE: JANE C. WRIGHT REVOLUTIONIZED CANCER R...
Feb 18, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Alternate Title: The United States of Bascom Emma tells Emlyn about the American geology pioneer and first woman hired to the USGS, Dr. Florence Bascom, and Emlyn tells Emma about gene drives in mammals! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Dr. Florence Bascom Arnold, Lois B. “BECOMING A GEOLOGIST: FLORENCE BASCOM IN WISCONSIN, 1874-1887.” Earth Sciences History, vol. 18, n...
Feb 04, 2019•53 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Alternate Title: Our Dark Lady of DNA Emlyn tells Emma about the x-ray crystallographer, Dr. Rosalind Franklin, who was instrumental in discovering the structure of DNA, and Emma tells Emlyn about "messy" companion stars! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Dr. Rosalind Franklin “Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment” by Beryl Lieff Benderly https://www.sci...
Jan 21, 2019•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Alternate Title: Purine Queen Emma tells Emlyn about the chemist, Gertrude Belle Elion, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering new ways to treat diseases like leukemia and HIV, and Emlyn tells Emma about the upcoming film about Mary Anning! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link SOURCES Main Story - Gertrude B. Elion Gertrude B. Elion – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2019. https://ww...
Jan 07, 2019•44 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Come play with us! Emma and Emlyn quiz each other about the 24 women of STEMmas we have covered in our podcast so far! How many questions can you answer?? PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Music “21 questions" by 50 Cent “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U...
Dec 24, 2018•31 min•Ep. 28
Alternate Title: You, Nice Foot! Emlyn tells Emma about Eunice Newton Foote, the climate scientist who discovered that carbon dioxide was the main cause of global warming, and Emma tells Emlyn about geckos and coffee! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources: Main Story - Eunice Newton Foote The Current, UC Santa Barbara, “Righting a Scientific Wrong”: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2018/018985/r...
Dec 10, 2018•41 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Alternate Title: Name Drops and Spinning Tops Emma tells Emlyn about the first woman to get at PhD in Mathematics, Dr. Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Emlyn tells Emma about the burden of antimicrobial resistance in the EU! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Sofia (Sonya) Kovalevskaya Alic, Margaret. (1986) Hypatia's heritage : a history of women in science from antiquity to the ...
Nov 26, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Alternate Title: No Payne, No Gain Emlyn tells Emma about the astrophysicist that discovered the composition of the sun and stars, Dr. Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about midterm election results and the STEMinists headed to Washington! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin American Physics Society NEWS by Richard Willi...
Nov 12, 2018•34 min•Season 1Ep. 23
Alternate Title: Midtermites! This week Emma tells Emlyn about the entomologist and civil rights activist (a.k.a. "the termite lady"), Dr. Margaret S. Collins, and Emlyn tells Emma about four female scientists running for office this November in IN, GA, VA, and NV! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Margaret S. Collins Black Women Scientists in the United States by Wini W...
Oct 29, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 22
Alternate Title: MetamoOoOoOorphosis Emlyn tells Emma about the OG ecologist and professionally-trained artist, Maria Sibylla Merian, who described the life cycle and plant host use of ~200 insect species, and Emma tells Emlyn about the research of Nobel Prize winners Dr. Strickland and Dr. Arnold! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Maria Sibylla Merian Wikipedia Article ...
Oct 15, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 21
Alternate Title: She's Electric! Boogie woogie, woogie! Emma tells Emlyn about the first female electrical engineer and National Inventor's Hall of Famer, Dr. Edith Clarke, and Emlyn tells Emma about the science of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Edith Clarke From Computer to Electrical Engineer: The Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke by James...
Oct 01, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 20
Alternate Title: Let's Get Physical Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Lise Meitner, the nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars! PLEASE FILL OUT THE SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScwuYfCujp_voMx1I37E4MB1Tk_UbncK6z8Khn4DC683fV-3A/viewform?usp=sf_link Sources Main Story - Lise Meitner Fission Girl: Lise Meitner’s Escape from Nazi Germany by Melanie Fine Book Review of Lise Me...
Sep 17, 2018•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 19
Alternate Title: Back to Basics (a.k.a. Alkaloids) Emma tells Emlyn about one of the first Indian women to receive a PhD, Dr. Asima Chatterjee, who studied the organic chemistry of plants, and Emlyn tells Emma about insects that vomit cooperatively! Sources Main Story - Asima Chatterjee Biography of Asima Chatterjee by Julie Banerji for the Indian National Science Academy. http://www.insaindia.res.in/BM/BM32_0709.pdf Biography in Science Reporter by Shri Dhrubajyoti Chattopadhyay http://nopr.nis...
Sep 03, 2018•36 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Alternate Title: Young and Just Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to receive a PhD in zoology and publish an article in Science, and Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Jess Wade, who wrote Wikipedia pages of 270+ female scientists! Main Story - Roger Arliner Young The San Diego Supercomputer Center’s Women in Science: https://www.sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/young.html Zoologist Roger Arliner Young and the Politics of Respectability by Dr. Sara Diaz: https://www.a...
Aug 20, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Alternate Title: PNAS Envy Emma tells Emlyn about the psychoanalyst, Anna Freud, who pioneered the field of child therapy and Emlyn tells Emma about how spiders may alter greenhouse emissions in the arctic! Sources: Main Story - Anna Freud Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth (2008). Anna Freud: A Biography. Anna Freud Biography by the Institute of Psychoanalysis. http://www.psychoanalysis.org.uk/our-authors-and-theorists/anna-freud Anna Freud Biography by the Freud Museum. https://www.freud-museum.at/online...
Aug 06, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Alternate Title: Gangsters of the Deep Emlyn tells Emma about the amazing ichthyologist and renown 'Shark Lady', Dr. Eugenie Clark, and Emma tells Emlyn about Melissa Cristina Márquez being bitten by a crocodile while filming for Shark Week! Sources: Main Story - Dr. Eugenie Clark Biography by NOAA: https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/news/may15/eugenie-clark.html Natural Shark Repellent is Alluring to Scientists (1981): https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/20/science/natural-shark-repellent-is-alluring-to...
Jul 30, 2018•40 min•Season 1Ep. 14
Alternate Title: Crystal Math Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of protein crystallography, Dr. Dorothy Crawfoot Hodgkin, and Emma tells Emlyn about how spiders use electric fields to balloon! Sources: Main Story - Dorothy Hodgkin The Nobel Prize: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1964/hodgkin-bio.html Royal Society of Chemistry: http://www.rsc.org/diversity/175-faces/all-faces/dorothy-hodgkin-om-frs/ Science History Institute: https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical...
Jul 23, 2018•47 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Alternate Title: Rubber Duckies and Sea-O2 Emma tells Emlyn about the geochemist, Dr. Katsuko Saruhashi, who studied how fast nuclear fallout travels through the ocean, and Emlyn tells Emma about one of the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Awardees! Sources: Main Story - Katsuko Saruhashi Biography by Sumiko Hatakeyama: https://japanfeministdebates.wordpress.com/2016/11/30/a-life-story-of-saruhashi-katsuko-1920-2007/ Jacob Darwin Hamblin and Linda M. Richards. 2015. Beyond the Lucky Dragon: Japa...
Jul 16, 2018•38 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Alternate Title: Fire Planes and the Avian Industry Explosion This week, Emlyn tells Emma about the Cherokee rocket scientist (i.e. space engineer!), Mary Golda Ross, and Emma tells Emlyn about Earth's core and about why it matters how you refer to female scientists. Sources: Main Story - Mary Golda Ross Article by Cherokee Pheonix newspaper: http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/Article/Index/2470 Article by Society of Women Engineers: http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/swe/spring14/index.php#/34 William...
Jul 09, 2018•42 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Alternate Title: Ride Sally Ride! Emma tells Emlyn about the first American woman and LGBTQ+ astronaut in space, Dr. Sally Ride, and Emlyn tells Emma about mammals going nocturnal and narwhal sounds! Sources: Main Story - Sally Ride Article by astronaut and engineer Dr. Bonnie J. Dunbar: https://theconversation.com/astronaut-sally-k-rides-legacy-encouraging-young-women-to-embrace-science-and-engineering-97371 Interview by Rebecca Wright for NASA in 2002: https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/oral_his...
Jul 02, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Alternate title: 125 Syphilis Rabbits Emlyn tells Emma about the queer scientist who helped develop treatments for African Sleeping Sickness and Syphilis, Dr. Louise Pearce, and Emma tells Emlyn about the organizations 500 Women Scientists and 500 Queer Scientists! Sources Main Story - Louise Pearce Chung, K., 1943. (2010). Women pioneers of medical research: Biographies of 25 outstanding scientists. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland. https://greenwichvillagehistory.wordpress.com/tag/heterodoxy/ Further...
Jun 25, 2018•46 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Alternate Title: Tumor Has It Emma tells Emlyn about Sarah Elizabeth Stewart, a Mexican-American researcher who convinced the world that cancer-causing viruses were real, and Emlyn tells Emma about how pollution may promote alzheimers and about Bonobo "doulas"! This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about bonobos. You have been warned. Sources: Main Story - Sarah Elizabeth Stewart Obituary by John P. Utz: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/canres/37/12/4674.full.pdf Biography by Car...
Jun 18, 2018•54 min•Season 1Ep. 8
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Jun 14, 2018•1 min
Alternate Title: The Amazing Grace Emlyn tells Emma about the U.S. Rear Admiral and Computer Scientist, Grace Hopper, and Emma tells Emlyn about the dangers of traveling to mars and the importance of seagrass beds! SOURCES: Main Story - Grace Hopper Biography of Grace Hopper: https://www.biography.com/people/grace-hopper-21406809 Navy Biography: https://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg70/Pages/namesake.aspx https://president.yale.edu/biography-grace-murray-hopper Amazing Women in History: http://w...
Jun 11, 2018•48 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Alternate Title: NERVE-ana: In Utero Emma tells Emlyn about the Italian neurobiologist and nobel laureate, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Emlyn tells Emma about the mathematical rules of living cells and about males that choose very, very bad mates. Sources Main Story - Rita Levi Montalcini Biography in Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/rita-levi-montalcini_(Dizionario-Biografico)/ Biography in Neurological Sciences https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10072-013-1303-2 Obituary: http...
Jun 04, 2018•50 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Alternate Title: A Parody of Parity Emlyn tells Emma about the "First Lady of Physics," Chien-Shiung Wu, and Emma tells Emlyn about horses remembering human emotions and about the winner of the AWIS Pinnacle Award! Sources Main Story - Chien-Shiung Wu Atomic Heritage Foundation: https://www.atomicheritage.org/profile/chien-shiung-wu National Women’s Hall of Fame: https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/chienshiung-wu/ American National Biography: https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/10.1093/an...
May 28, 2018•56 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Alternate Title: The A-MAIZE-ing Race Emma tells Emlyn about the "Mother of Chromosomes," Barbara McClintock, and Emlyn tells Emma about the Bajau people and why male fruit flies like to mate. This episode gets a bit raunchy when we talk about fruit flies. You have been warned. Sources: Main Story - Barbara McClintock A Feeling for the Organism by Evelyn Fox Keller The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control by Nathaniel C. Comfort The Barbara McClintock Pa...
May 21, 2018•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Alternate Title: She Dozen Have it All Emlyn tells Emma about the engineer who inspired "Cheaper by the Dozen," Lillian Moller Gilbreth, and Emma tells Emlyn about self-medicating orangutans and the winner of the NSF Waterman Award! Sources Main Story - Lillian Moller Gilbreth The Economist; Gurus; Frank and Lillian Gilbreth https://www.economist.com/node/12060343 The management theory of Frank and Lillian Gilbreth. https://www.business.com/articles/management-theory-of-frank-and-lillian-gilbret...
May 14, 2018•44 min•Season 1Ep. 3
