In 1991, she studied and helped revive the making of Wasco sally bags, twined root-digging bags, through the Oregon Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. This launched her on a new career path dedicated to the preservation of her cultural heritage.
In her 34 years at NASA/NACA, she contributed to numerous programs as a computer scientist, inspire many through her enthusiastic participation in outreach programs, break down barriers for women and people of color in science, technology, engineering, and mathematic (STEM) fields, and win the admiration and respect of her coworkers.
Mathematician whose work contributed to the creation of GPS
Alison Dillon was an excellent mathematician and an outstanding secondary school teacher with a unique teaching style.
Amy Rayson was a graduate of Girton College, University of Cambridge but spent most of her career teaching mathematics in private schools in New York. She was one of the first seven women to join the New York Mathematical Society in 1891.
Graciela Salicrup trained as an architect and then worked as an archaeologist. She became a mathematics undergraduate at the age of 29 and went on to the become a leading topologist.
Vera W de Spinadel was the first woman to be awarded a mathematics Ph.D. by the University of Buenos Aires. She was an Argentine mathematician whose main contributions were to mathematics in architecture, art, and design. She introduced the “metallic means family” which generalises the Golden Ratio.
Zofia Szmydt was a Polish mathematician who became the first woman to win the prestigious Stefan Banach Prize from the Polish Mathematical Society in 1956.
Ene-Margit Tiit is an Estonian mathematician who was the first president of the Estonian Statistical Society.
Award-winning French mathematician who has proved many remarkable results in algebraic geometry, particularly in finding counterexamples to conjectures.