US biology textbooks highlighted seven men for every woman scientist. And black women were not represented a single time in any of the works analysed. Based on the current rate, it will be ...

The participants weren’t just volunteers, they’re scientists, members of the Black Women in Ecology, Evolution and Marine Science, a nonprofit called BWEEMS. “I’ve always said that I think ...

Alma Levant Hayden was an American chemist, and one of the first African-American women to gain a scientist position at a science agency in Washington, D.C. She joined the National Institutes of ...

She is the first African-American woman to gain a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first African-American woman to lead a top-ranked research university. On a winter's ...