Anna Modayil Mani was born in Kerala in 1918, the seventh of eight children. In Anna's household, her brothers were being groomed for...

Chien-Shiung Wu is known as both the "First Lady of Physics" and the "Queen of Nuclear Research." Born in a small town near Shanghai,...

Yoky Matsuoka was born in Japan and moved to California when she was just 16 years old. A professional tennis player in her youth, Yoky’s...

The daughter of two scientists, Cynthia Breazeal became enamored with robots when she watched Star Wars when she was 10 years old. With...

Tarah Wheeler has a lot of serious cred in the world of tech. CEO, Cybersecurity expert, poker enthusiast, and accomplished author, Tarah...

Today is Assistive Technology Awareness Day, and we’d like to introduce you to an Assistive Tech pioneer!

Barbara McClintock had some radical ideas in the 1930s and 40s that are now commonplace in our understanding of DNA and genetic structure.

The next time you see a 3D image, give a little thanks to American Scientist, Valerie Thomas. Dr. Valerie L. Thomas was born in...

Hedy Lamarr was more than just a pretty face. She also invented the technology that brought us Bluetooth, GPS, and WiFi.

Camille Hearst grew up in San Francisco during the 1980s and 90s, and saw the effects of the first dot-com bust, first hand. She then...

We kick off National Engineers Week highlighting Ayanna MacCalla Howard. She is a roboticist, entrepreneur, and educator that is also a...

Oprah Winfrey got her start in radio telecommunications, which is the science and technology of communication at a distance through the...

Known as the “Poet of Code,” Joy Adowaa Buolamwini is the driving force behind any discussions happening around bias in Artificial...

Elizebeth Smith Friedman became known as “America’s First Cryptanalyst.” One of nine children, and only one of 2 to attend college,...

In eighth grade, Mary Allen Wilkes had a geography teacher tell her that she ought to be a computer programmer when she grew up. Little...

This week's Women in STEM Sunday is dedicated to Katherine Johnson - real-life hero of the "Hidden Figures" movie.

In honor of National Science Fiction Day, we turn our Women in STEM Sunday focus on Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein. The Story of...

Evelyn Boyd Granville loved mathematics from a very early age. She said being a “geek” never bothered her, and she believed that her...

Photo of Astronaut Dr. Ellen Ochoa

In this week's Women in STEM post, we celebrate the birth and contributions of Ms. Ada Lovelace. Born Augusta Ada King, child of the poet...