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References
The Exultation to Inanna Tablet, Nippur C. 1750 B. C. E."
from the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia (Neg. #S8-80401)

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  • By David Malakoff - ScienceNOW Daily News - 24 July 2008 Zip. Zilch. Nada. There's no real difference between the scores of U.S. boys and girls on common math tests, according to a massive new study. Educators hope the finding will finally dispel lingering perceptions that girls don't measure up to boys when it comes to crunching numbers.
  • Five women from around the world were presented with L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards at the Paris headquarters of UNESCO. The awards alternate between the life sciences and material sciences, with this year's awards going to leading life scientists. Professor Lihadh Al-Gazali, Professor V. Narry Kim, Professor Ada Yonath, Professor Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Professor Elizabeth Blackburn.
  • Public radio network WAMC has a program devoted to women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics aptly called Women in Science ON THE AIR! They've put the show online, so you don't even need to be in the network's listener area to hear the program.
  • In April the U.S. Postal Service will release a new series of stamps honoring 20th Century American scientists. One of the first four stamps to be released depicts Gerty Cori. In 1947 she became the first woman in America to receive the Nobel Prize (along with her husband Carl Ferdinand Cori and Argentine physiologist Bernardo Houssay) for discovering how glycogen (a form of stored energy in animals) is broken down into sugar, then turned back into glycogen.
  • Dec 2007 - Girls won top honors for the first time in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology, one of the nation’s most coveted student science awards,
  • Don't see someone you think should be here? Try "A 20th Century Woman" or "Did you Know"

    • 4,000 years of women in science, in technology and other altogether creative stuff! Did you know that? Science is a traditional role for women. Dr. Deborah Crocker at the University of Alabama and Dr. Sethanne Howard retired from the US Naval Observatory maintain this site. They are both astronomers. They dedicate this site to all those wonderful women of our past.

    "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit." Helen Keller

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    4000 Years of Women in Science presents the Living Witch of Agnesi. This animated GIF illustrates the curve known as the Witch of Agnesi that was studied by Maria Agnesi.

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