Episodes
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Episode 074 - Janaki Ammal | Cytologist & Botanist
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Monday Mar 29, 2021
Alternate Title: The Sweet Smell of Success
Emlyn tells Emma about the Indian cytologist and plant breeder, Dr. Janaki Ammal!
Learn about us and other women in STEM on our website https://www.stemfatalepodcast.com/
Sources
Main Story - Dr. Janaki Ammal
- “Pioneering Female Botanist Who Sweetened a Nation and Saved a Valley” by Leila McNeill, Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/pioneering-female-botanist-who-sweetened-nation-and-saved-valley-180972765/
- Follow Leila McNeil @LEILASEDAI on twitter, check out her website (http://www.leilamcneill.com/) and the Lady Science Magazine (https://www.ladyscience.com/).
- “Celebrating Women’s History Month: Janaki Ammal, India’s First Woman Ph.D in Botany, and a Michigan Connection,” University of Michigan. https://mbgna.umich.edu/celebrating-womens-history-month-janaki-ammal-indias-first-woman-ph-d-in-botany-and-a-michigan-connection/
- “Remembering Dr Janaki Ammal, pioneering botanist, cytogeneticist and passionate Gandhian” by Geeta Doctor, scroll.in. https://scroll.in/article/730186/remembering-dr-janaki-ammal-pioneering-botanist-cytogeneticist-and-passionate-gandhian
- “Janaki Ammal”, Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janaki_Ammal
Women who Work
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Episode 063 - Wangari Muta Maathai | Environmentalist
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Monday Aug 24, 2020
Alternate Title: A TREE-mendous Life
Emma tells Emlyn about Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the environmentalist, activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner who founded the grassroots tree-planting campaign, the Greenbelt Movement.
Learn more about us and other women in science at our website www.stemfatalepodcast.com
Sources
Main Story - Wangari Maathai
- The Green Belt Movement
- Maathai, Wangari, Unbowed: a Memoir. William Heinemann, London, 2007.
- Wangari Maathai – Biographical. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2020. Mon. 24 Aug 2020. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2004/maathai/biographical/>
- Perlez, Jane. “Nairobi Journal; Skyscraper's Enemy Draws a Daily Dose of Scorn.” The New York Times. 1989. https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/06/world/nairobi-journal-skyscraper-s-enemy-draws-a-daily-dose-of-scorn.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
- Gettleman, Jeffrey. “Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71.” The New York Times. 2011. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/27/world/africa/wangari-maathai-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-dies-at-71.html
Women who Work
- Press release by The Royal Society: https://royalsociety.org/grants-schemes-awards/awards/attenborough-prize/
- Wikipedia on Alice Roberts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Roberts
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
Kingkongphoto & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA - Wangari Maathai 2004 Nobel Peace prize winner
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Episode 047 - Marjory Stoneman Douglas | Conservationist
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Monday Nov 18, 2019
Alternate Title: Forever Glades
Emlyn tells Emma about the "grande dame of the everglades", conservationist and writer, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and Emma tells Emlyn about the Broadcom MASTERS middle-school competition winners!
Main Story - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- https://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/marjory-stoneman-douglas/
- https://www.nwf.org/en/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2000/Conservation-Hall-of-Fame-Marjory-Stoneman-Douglas
- http://scholar.library.miami.edu/msdouglas/river_of_grass.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjory_Stoneman_Douglas
Women who Werk
- Perkins, Sid. “Teen auto-safety researcher nabs $25,000 science fair prize.” Science News for Students. 2019. https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/eureka-lab/MASTERS-2019-teen-auto-safety-researcher-nabs-25000-broadcom-masters-prize
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
“Work” by Rihanna
Cover Image
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