Dr Flemmie Pansy Kittrell
Globetrotting African-American nutritionist Flemmie P. Kittrell revolutionized early childhood education and illuminated ‘hidden hunger’
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Dr Rosalie Slaughter Morton
In 1909, Dr. Rosalie Slaughter Morton was the first chair of the Public Health Education Committee of the American Medical Association. She was one of the first women faculty members at the New York Polyclinic Hospital and Post-Graduate Medical School and the first woman faculty member at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Asha Rao
Professor Asha Rao is a mathematician by training and applies algebraic techniques to a wide variety of problems, ranging from designing better codes for communication, to detecting money laundering and describing human interactions in the physical space.
Dr Anne Astin
Australian pioneer for women in biochemistry and advocate for rural women
Dr Beverly Daniel Tatum
In April 2002 Beverly Daniel Tatum, dean of the college and acting president of Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, was named Spelman College’s ninth president.
Lt. Col. Juanita Redmond Hipps
Juanita Redmond Hipps trained as a nurse at South Caroline State Hospital and joined the Army Nurse Corps in 1936. She was sent to Manila, in the Philippines soon after joining.
Celeste Bowe
Irish Daughter of Charity and nurse
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Multidisciplinary artist, educator, and member of the US President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Dr Fannie Almara Quain
Dr. Fannie Quain earned a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Michigan Medical School in 1898 and was a co-founder of the North Dakota Tuberculosis Association (now the American Lung Association of North Dakota).
Dr Hannah Mary Helen Sexton
Hannah Sexton, in 1892, became the third women to graduate MB BS from the University of Melbourne. In 1896 she helped found the Queen Victoria Hospital for Women and Children and was the leader of surgical work until 1908.