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Engineering Education Blog: Women Engineers, Computer Scientists and Inventors

 

March is Women’s History Month. Below I highlight some of the Engineering Pathway’s blogs on women’s contributions to engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship.
Patricia Galloway, first female president of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), blogs on Elsie Eaves - first female engineer in ASCE to be elected as a full member on March […]

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Engineering Education "Today in History" Blog: Rachael Carson publishes the Silent Spring

Today in History – February 3, 1958 – Rachael Carson publishes the Silent Spring. Rachel Carson, a writer, scientist and ecologist, worked seventeen years for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, where she learned about the problems of pesticides on the environment. She is best known for her book called Silent Spring, […]

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BEN Scholar: Terry McGuire

NSDL and its Biological Sciences Pathway BiosciEdNet (BEN). share a problem. “I am always meeting people who say, ‘It’s too bad there isn’t a website that offers peer reviewed biological material for teaching,’” says Terry McGuire, associate professor of genetics at Rutgers University. In fact, BEN and NSDL offer thousands of these sources.
Terry McGuire […]

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