women in STEM – She’s Got a Whole PhD

To Be Excellent, You Must Practice

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle Recently, I have been dealing with a serious case of imposter syndrome. Imposter syndrome is this thing that makes you feel like you’re in the wrong place, like you don’t belong, and all because you’re unqualified. It afflicts PhDContinue reading “To Be Excellent, You Must Practice”

Hidden Figures (Movie) Review

I have previously blogged about the book Hidden Figures (in conjunction with Small Great Things). I hosted a movie night with some friends of mine and I am not sure how I feel about the movie. I tried very hard not to let my feelings about the book influence my feelings about the movie, andContinue reading “Hidden Figures (Movie) Review”

Wise Women at Work

This has been an amazing month full of blog posts for me! I have enjoyed writing every single one of them, and learning more about women whom I look up to in STEM. Now, it’s time to get personal and share some stories from women in my own life about the next generation of femaleContinue reading “Wise Women at Work”

The Nobel Prize is fine but…

…the drugs I’ve developed are rewards in themselves. -Gertrude B. Elon Happy Birthday Gertrude Elion! Gertrude Elion would be celebrating her 99th birthday today, unfortunately she left this world in 1999. Elion was a biochemist and a pharmacologist, and unlike many of the other women I have focused on this month, she never obtained aContinue reading “The Nobel Prize is fine but…”

Shirley Jackson, PhD

I always feel a little weird writing about the living instead of the dead because I feel like I cannot do them justice. It is easy to pick out what a person’s legacy was once they have left this world because it is what we remember of them. But when people continuously reach new achievements,Continue reading “Shirley Jackson, PhD”

Watson, Crick, Franklin, and that other guy

If I asked you to name the first person that comes to mind when I say, “discovered DNA,” you would say either Watson or Crick. And you would be wrong. DNA was actually discovered by Swiss physiological chemist Friedrich Miescher in 1869. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was not awarded to Watson andContinue reading “Watson, Crick, Franklin, and that other guy”