By Larissa Fong (Photo by Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP)  Astrid Linder is a Swedish engineer and professor of traffic safety at the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute. She is renowned for leading the development of the first crash test dummy modeled on the average female body. Her work aims to ensure that women receive the same level of protection as men in vehicle collisions. In the 1990s, while pursuing her PhD at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden,

By Fangfei Cai Only 2% of Nobel Prizes in the sciences have gone to women since the awards began in 1901. That’s a statistic so small, it could slip past without notice; yet behind this number are generations of women who kept pushing, researching, publishing and proving their ideas against the odds. In 2025, that 2% gained a new name: Mary E. Brunkow, an American molecular biologist and immunologist who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her work and resh

By Angie In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier made history as the first two women to share the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Their discovery of CRISPR-Cas9, a revolutionary gene editing tool, has forever changed the way scientists study and alter DNA. What began as a study of bacterial immunity became one of the most powerful technologies in modern biology. Emmanuelle Charpentier, a French microbiologist, was researching how bacteria defend themselves against vir

By Jahnavi Dalmia, Research Team Member https://www.cureus.com/articles/289162-transforming-global-health-dr-gagandeep-kangs-legacy-in-mi...

By Eshal Rizvi, Research Team Member https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-doudna Jennifer Doudna is one of the most...

By Larissa Fong, Research Team Member The transgender pride flag, designed by Monica Helms in 1999, represents the broad range of...

By Larissa Fong, Research Team Member From Shulin Chen (The Ohio State University)  In recent years, advancements in human-machine...

By Eshal Rizvi, Research Team Member https://www.biography.com/scientists/florence-nightingale Florence Nightingale’s shining moments...

By Jahnavi Dalmia, Research Team Member https://www.wildinteriors.com/blog/women-who-paved-the-way E.K.Janaki Ammal, best known for her...

By Larissa Fong, Research Team Member Source: UofT Undergraduate Research Students’ Association (UofT URSA) On January 16, 2025, I had...

By Eshal Rizvi , Research Team Member Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/kalpana-chawla-india-astronaut-first-woman-sp...

By Jahnavi Dalmia , Research Team Member Source: https://www.oxforddnb.com/abstract/10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-978019861412...

By Larissa Fong , Research Team Member Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03892-3 Kaitlin Kharas, an alumna of the...

By Jahnavi Dalmia , Research Team Member Source: https://hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/mcclintock.jpg?w=800 Barbara McClintock...

By Larissa Fong, Research Team Member Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/nmeth.2569 Dr. Anne Claude Gingras is an expert in mass...

By Jahnavi Dalmia, Research Team Member Source: https://foreignpolicy.com/gt-essay/prevention-is-the-best-medicine-mary-claire-king-cance...

By Jahnavi Dalmia , Research Team Member Source: https://today.ucsd.edu/story/nierenberg-prize-awarded-to-biochemist-katalin-kariko-for-p...

By Eshal Rizvi , Research Team Member Today, it is no secret that women in STEM have had to deal with their work being stolen and...

By Larissa Fong, Research Team Member Dr. Donna Strickland Photo Credit: Discovery West Donna Strickland is the third woman to win The...

By Fabiha Saddat, Research Team Member Dr. Nina Shah, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco...