Yesterday President Barak Obama presented the National Medal of Science to nine "eminent researchers" and the National Medal of Te...

On the Nobel Prize front, 2009 is turning into a banner year for both nucleic acid chemistry and women scientists. As I posted earlier this ...

The five postdoctoral researchers who were awarded 2009 L'Oreal USA Fellowships for Women in Science were honored at a special ceremony ...

On January 23rd, Lisa Perez Jackson was confirmed as the Administrator to the of the Environmental Protection Agency. Jackson earned her b...

Some of women in science-related blog posts and articles I've been reading the past few weeks, but never got around to blogging: Life as...

On November 10th, five outstanding women scientists in the physical sciences were named as winners of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Women in Scienc...

Google has just added images from the LIFE photo archive - both published and unpublished - to its image search, and there are some great p...

From October 19-25th the American Chemical Society celebrates National Chemistry Week. This year's theme is "Having a Ball With ...

Last spring, O, The Oprah Magazine honored 80 "trail-blazing" women as winners of their White House Leadership Project Contest ....

This week's episode of the Chemical Heritage Foundation podcast focuses on women in chemistry: Breaking through the glass ceiling can be...

This month's issue of MIT Technology Review presents their annual list of the " top 35 young innovators under 35" . Seven of t...

When I was surfing about for my alchemy post, I stumbled across an interesting paper: " Early Women Chemists of the Northeast " (p...

Science fiction writer and independent scholar or Roman history Mary Jane Engh is collaborating with Washington State University professor ...

A commenter on my Margaret Thatcher post points out that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is also a scientist . Merkel was educated in Templi...

Sometimes when I'm surfing I stumble across a factoid that I think will make an interesting post and I stash it away for later. With the...