Stem Fatale Podcast

No new episode of STEM Fatale this month! Instead we encourage you to check out Season 2 of a different women in science history podcast, the Lost Women of Science. Listen to this bonus ep to hear the trailer! More about the Lost Women of Science Podcast: https://lostwomenofscience.org/ Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/ 

Emma tells Emlyn about the American Biochemist, Dr. Marie Maynard Daly.    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Marie Maynard Daly Debakcsy, Dale. Marie Maynard Daly (1921-2003), America's First Black Woman Chemist. Women You Should Know. 2018. Kessler, James H., et al. Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century. United States, Oryx Press, 1996. https://books.google.com/books?id=-ydHVdMUqdEC&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false Marie Maynard Daly | Science History Institute. 2018. DALY, M M et al. “CHOLESTEROL CONCENTRATION AND CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN AORTAS OF RATS WITH RENAL HYPERTENSION.” The Journal of clinical investigation vol. 42,10 (1963): 1606-12. doi:10.1172/JCI104845  Marie M. Daly PhD Memorial Celebration | Graduate Programs in the Biomedical Sciences | Albert Einstein College of Medicine  Women who Work  Paper: During, M.A.D., Smit, J., Voeten, D.F.A.E. et al. The Mesozoic terminated in

Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001.    Women who Work  Here's why whales don't drown when they gulp down food underwater Anatomical mechanism for protecting the airway in the largest animals on earth: Current Biology     Music  “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna   Cover Image http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/indianed/teacher/lessons/Leaders/AnnieDodge.htm

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??  Cheat sheet --> https://twitter.com/STEMFatalePod/status/1474052626589585409?s=20   Sources Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U

Episode Summary Emlyn tells Emma about public health advocate Annie Dodge Wauneka.   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Annie Dodge Wauneka Niethammer, Carolyn. I’ll Go and Do More: Annie Dodge Wauneka, Navajo Leader and Activist. Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2001.    Women who Work  https://lostwomenofscience.org/    Music  “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna   Cover Image http://www.schools.utah.gov/curr/indianed/teacher/lessons/Leaders/AnnieDodge.htm 

Emma tells Emlyn about Deborah S. Jin, an atomic physicist that engineered TWO new forms of ultracold matter.    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Dr. Deborah S. Jin Weil, Martin Deborah Jin, government physicist who won MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, dies at 47. Washington Post. 2016. Deborah Jin Fellowship | Department of Physics | The University of Chicago Bolometer - Wikipedia Padavic-Callaghan, Karmela. Deborah Jin engineered new quantum states of matter — twice. Massive Science. 2020. Siegel, Ethan. Ask Ethan: What's The Difference Between A Fermion And A Boson? Forbes. 2017. Bose–Einstein condensate - Wikipedia DeMarco B, Jin DS. Onset of fermi degeneracy in a trapped atomic Gas. Science. 1999 Sep 10;285(5434):1703-6. doi: 10.1126/science.285.5434.1703. PMID: 10481000.  Ultracold Polar Molecules | Joint Quantum Institute   Women who Work - Dr. Adi Utarini Website: http://www.adiutarini.id/ https://www.nature.com/

Emlyn tells Emma about Bessie Blount Griffin, an inventor, physical therapist, and forensic scientist.    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Bessie Blount Griffin Amisha Padnani. Overlooked No More: Bessie Blount, Nurse, Wartime Inventor and Handwriting Expert. New York Times. March 27, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/obituaries/bessie-blount-overlooked.html Elena Ferrarin. Bessie Blount Griffin: A Black Woman's Journey to Pioneering Forensic Scientist. True Crime Blog: Stories & News, A & E. March 9, 2021. https://www.aetv.com/real-crime/bessie-blount-griffin "Bessie Blount Griffin." Contemporary Black Biography, vol. 135, Gale, 2017. Gale In Context: Biography, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1606007708/BIC?u=uga&sid=bookmark-BIC&xid=86f6c869. Accessed 15 Aug. 2021. Portable Receptacle Support Patent: https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=2550554  Women who Work  Shape-shifting: changing ani

We'll be taking a summer break but will be back in September to talk about more awesome STEMinists!

Emma tells Emlyn all about Edna Paisano, the woman who combined her skills in mathematics and sociology to make the US Census more inclusive! Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Edna Lee Paisano Edna L. Paisano | Obituaries | lmtribune.com Sterrett, Andrew. 101 Careers in Mathematics. 1996. https://archive.org/details/101careersinmath0000unse/page/136/mode/2up?q=paisano  U.S. Census Bureau. We, the First Americans. 1993. https://www.census.gov/prod/cen1990/wepeople/we-5.pdf  U.S. Census Bureau. “Ch. 5: American Indian and Alaska Native Areas” Geographic Areas Reference Manual. https://www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/reference/GARM/Ch5GARM.pdf  Why We Conduct the Decennial Census. U.S. Census Bureau. Roos, David. How the Census Works | HowStuffWorks. 2020 U.S. Census Bureau. Results of the 1996 Race and Ethnic Targeted Test. 1997. Lujan, Carol. As Simple as One, Two, Three: Census Underenumeration Among the American Indians and A

Episode Summary Emlyn tells Emma all about herpetologist and anatomist Inez Whipple Wilder!    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Inez Whipple Wilder  Houck, Max M. (2016). Forensic Fingerprints. Elsevier Science. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-12-800672-6. The Morphology of Amphibian Metamorphosis, Smith College, 1925 Wilder, Inez W. 1913 The life history of Desmognathus fusca. The Biological Bulletin. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/BBLv24n4p251   “Inez Whipple Wilder,” Wikipedia.   Kirakosian, K.V., Swedlund, A.C. Glass Cabinets and Little Black Boxes: The Collections of H. H. Wilder and the Curious Case of His Human-Hair Samples. Hist Arch 53, 280–294 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41636-019-00180-0   Women who Work  Göttingen University. “Press release: Branching worm with dividing internal organs growing in sea sponge.” 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmor.21356  Published article: P

Alternate Title: Overcome with Emulsion Emma tells Emlyn all about Marietta Blau, the physicist that developed photographic emulsion technology in order to discover and describe subatomic particles and their behavior!  Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Marietta Blau Perlmutter, A.. “Marietta Blau's Work After World War II.” arXiv: History and Philosophy of Physics (2001). https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0110028  Sime, Ruth L. “Marietta Blau: Pioneer of Photographic Nuclear Emulsions and Particle Physics.” Physics in Perspective (2013).  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-012-0097-6 McArdle, James.  January 27: Exposed. On This Day in Photography. 2018. Interview of Leopold Halpern by Maria Rentetzi on 1999 March 5, Niels Bohr Library & Archives, American Institute of Physics, College Park, MD USA, www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/oral-histories/32406     Women who Work  G. Casetta, A.P.

Alternate Title: The Sweet Smell of Success Emlyn tells Emma about the Indian cytologist and plant breeder, Dr. Janaki Ammal!   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Dr. Janaki Ammal “Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley” by Leila McNeill, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pioneering-female-botanist-who-sweetened-nation-and-saved-valley-180972765/  Follow Leila McNeil @LEILASEDAI on twitter, check out her website (http://www.leilamcneill.com/) and the Lady Science Magazine (https://www.ladyscience.com/). “Celebrating Women’s History Month: Janaki Ammal, India’s First Woman Ph.D in Botany, and a Michigan Connection,” University of Michigan.  https://mbgna.umich.edu/celebrating-womens-history-month-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-ph-d-in-botany-and-a-michigan-connection/ “Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian” b

Alternate Title: The Oceanographer Emma tells a short story about Spain's first oceanographer, Jimena Quirós.   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Lozano, Pablo. "Jimena Quirós: the Civil War cut short the career of the first oceanographer in the history of Spain." Oceánicas. 2018. Translated by Google Translate. https://oceanicas.ieo.es/jimena-quiros-la-primera-oceanografa-en-la-historia-de-espana-cuya-carrera-trunco-la-guerra/    Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke   Cover Image https://mujeresconciencia.com/2019/12/05/jimena-quiros-oceanografa/

Alternate Title: The Facilitator Emma tells a short story about Dr. Geraldine Pittman Woods, the neuroembryologist turned science administrator and advocate for minorities in STEM.    Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources 1. Warren, Wini. Black women scientists in the United States. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1999. https://archive.org/details/blackwomenscient00warr/page/269/mode/1up  2. Woo, Elaine. "Geraldine Woods; Scientist Helped Launch Head Start." Los Angeles Times. 2000. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-05-mn-50930-story.html    Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke   Cover Image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Geraldine_Pittman_Woods.gif

Alternate Title: The Duchess of Duck Disease Emlyn tells Emma about the bacteriologist and duck disease expert, Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price!   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Jessie Price  Wikipedia, “Jessie Isabelle Price”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Isabelle_Price  "Doctor to Long Island Ducks". Ebony. September 1964.  Find a Grave, “Dr. Dorsey William Bruner.” Dr Dorsey William Bruner (1906-1996)    Gillmer, S. (2018, August 04) Jessie Isabelle Price (1930-2015). https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/price-jessie-isabelle-1930-2015/  “Dr. Jessie Isabelle Price - Veterinary Microbiologist” by Karel Green, POC2 . https://poc2.co.uk/2019/03/14/dr-jessie-isabelle-price-veterinary-microbiologist/  Women who Work  Discoveries at the Edge of the Periodic Table: First Ever Measurements of Einsteinium    Music  “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “Work” by Rihanna   Cover Image "Doctor to Long Islan

Alternate Title: Bravo, Helia! Emma tells Emlyn about the famous botanist and Queen of Cacti, Helia Bravo Hollis!   Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/    Sources Main Story - Helia Bravo Hollis Aguilar-Rocha, M. A lifetime among Cacti: Helia Bravo-Hollis – Biodiversity Heritage Library. Natural History Museum. Bravo Hollis, Helia (1901-2001) on JSTOR.  Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mexican Revolution". Encyclopedia Britannica, 13 May. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Mexican-Revolution.    Lopez, Alberto. Helia Bravo Hollis, la reina de los cactus. El País. 2018. Salcedo Meza, Concepción. Helia Bravo Hollis. ¿Cómoves? 2001. Morales-Sandoval, Jesús & Scheinvar, Leia. (2019). The Cactus Explorer Cactus People Histories. Who is Helia Bravo-Hollis?. 2019. 16-22. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334316889_The_Cactus_Explorer_Cactus_People_Histories_Who_is_Helia_Bravo-Hollis Bravo-Hollis, Helia. Memorias de una vida y

Alternate Title: Fans of Ayrton Emlyn tells Emma about the genius engineer, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and suffragette, Hertha Aryton.    Check out our merch! www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch   Sources Main Story - Hertha Ayrton “The Life and material culture of Hertha Marks Ayrton (1854-1923): suffragette, physicist, mathematician, and inventor” by Elizabeth Bruton. Science Museum Group Journal. Autumn 2018, Issue 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/181002  “Meet Hertha Ayrton, the mathematician who cleared WWI trenches of poisonous gas” by Joan Meiners. June 5th, 2020. Massive Science. https://massivesci.com/articles/hertha-ayrton-mathematics-bodichon-electric-arc/     Wikipedia, “Hertha Ayrton”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertha_Ayrton    Women who Work This week, we wanted to give credit to the many wonderful women who made the new COVID-19 vaccines possible! Read more about them in the following articles: Kizzmekia Corbett, an African American woman, is praised as key scientist behind

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??    Sources Music “Mary Anning” by Artichoke “No Copyright Music: Christmas Instrumentals” by Heroboard: Music for Creators https://youtu.be/dYyPTy6425U

Alternate Title: Sex Cells Emma tells Emlyn about the geneticist Dr. Nettie Maria Stevens, who was one of the first scientists to discover sex determination by chromosomes.   Check out our holiday merch! www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch Sources Main Story - Nettie Maria Stevens  Brush, S. (1978). Nettie M. Stevens and the Discovery of Sex Determination by Chromosomes. Isis, 69(2), 163-172. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/230427 Ogilvie, M., & Choquette, C. (1981). Nettie Maria Stevens (1861-1912): Her Life and Contributions to Cytogenetics. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 125(4), 292-311. Retrieved November 23, 2020, from http://www.jstor.org/stable/986332 Stevens, Nettie Maria. (1901). Studies on Ciliate Infusoria. United States, Hopkins Seaside Laboratory. https://www.google.com/books/edition/Studies_on_Ciliate_Infusoria/8Ic_AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22studies+on+ciliate+infusoria%22&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover O'Connor, C. &

Alternate Title: La Flesche and Blood Emlyn tells Emma about Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American physician, who used her training and expertise to campaign for social reform and health care in her Omaha community.   Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com  And order some holiday merch here! https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/merch    Sources Main Story - Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte “The Incredible Legacy of Susan La Flesche, The First Native America to Earn a Medical Degree” by Carson Vaughan, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/incredible-legacy-susan-la-flesche-first-native-american-earn-medical-degree-180962332/ “The First Native American to Receive a Medical Degree” by Allison C. Meier, JStor Daily. https://daily.jstor.org/the-first-native-american-to-receive-a-medical-degree/ “Native American Disease and Epidemics,” Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_disease_and_epidemics Susan