In celebration of this year’s UC Common Read, the Clermont College Library and the Academic Support Committee presented a panel discussion entitled Women in Science: Conversations to Spark Success. Moderated by Dr. Margaret Hanson, Associate Dean for Natural Sciences at UC’s College of Arts and Sciences, the panel engaged science and math faculty in conversation about their professional pathways.
Our Clermont College faculty panelists included Dr. Krista Clark, Professor of Biology; Carolyn Goodman, Assistant Professor Educator of Mathematics; and Dr. Jill Shirokawa, Annual Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemistry.
For more information about the UC Common Read, Radioactive: Marie and Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss, please view this UC Libraries guide: https://guides.libraries.uc.edu/commonread/2019/radioactive
Want to learn more about women in science, check out these books:
Visionary women : how Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters changed our world by Andrea Barnet
Wonder women : 25 innovators, inventors, and trailblazers who changed history by written by Sam Maggs ; illustrated by Sophia Foster-Dimino
Maria Sibylla Merian & daughters : women of art and science by Ella Reitsma ; assisted by Sandrine Ulenberg ; [translation, Lynne Richards]
She’s such a geek! : women write about science, technology & other nerdy stuff by edited by Annalee Newitz & Charlie Anders
The science on women and science by Christina Hoff Sommers, editor
Headstrong : 52 women who changed science–and the world by Rachel Swaby
Scientific pioneers : women succeeding in science by Joyce Tang
Sisters in science : conversations with black women scientists about race, gender, and their passion for science by [interviews by] Diann Jordan
So you want to be a scientist? by Philip A. Schwartzkroin
Hidden figures : the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race by Margot Lee Shetterly
Beyond Curie : four women in physics and their remarkable discoveries, 1903 to 1963 by Scott Calvin
The Curies : a biography of the most controversial family in science by Denis Brian
Marie Curie and her daughters : the private lives of science’s first family by Shelley Emling
Obsessive genius : the inner world of Marie Curie by Barbara Goldsmith
The gentle subversive : Rachel Carson, Silent spring, and the rise of the environmental movement by Mark Hamilton Lytle
On a farther shore : the life and legacy of Rachel Carson by William Souder
Lab girl by Hope Jahren
Chrysalis : Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis by Kim Todd
Seeds of hope : wisdom and wonder from the world of plants by Jane Goodall with Gail Hudson ; [foreword by Michael Pollan]
The Mercury 13 : the untold story of thirteen American women and the dream of space flight by Martha Ackmann
The woman who smashed codes : a true story of love, spies, and the unlikely heroine who outwitted America’s enemies by Jason Fagone
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