The First Lady of Engineering: Chapter 1

In this episode of Lost Women of Science Conversations, host Elah Feder explores the remarkable resurgence of I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman’s 1995 novel that went largely unnoticed for decades before becoming an international sensation. Harpman was a psychoanalys ...  Show more

En 1856, décadas antes de que se acuñara el término “gas de efecto invernadero”, Eunice Newton Foote demostró el efecto invernadero en su laboratorio casero. Colocó un cilindro de vidrio lleno de dióxido de carbono al sol y observó que se calentaba mucho más rápido que un cilindr ...  Show more

Chi Onwurah tells Jim Al-Khalili why she wanted to become a telecoms engineer and why engineering is a caring profession.As a black, working class woman from a council estate in Newcastle, she was in a minority of one studying engineering at university in London and encountered t ...  Show more

This week, aerospace engineer and NASA alum Aisha Bowe joins us to discuss finding your purpose, her experiences as a Black woman in aerospace engineering and at NASA, and why representation matters.For more content, subscribe to our Youtube and Patreon!Watch “Views from AmandaLa ...  Show more

Dr Julia Ravey and Dr Ella Hubber both have a love of science, but it turns out there’s a lot they don’t know about some of the leading women at the front of the inventing game. In Unstoppable, Dr Julia and Dr Ella tell each other the hidden, world-shaping stories of the engineer ...  Show more

Usually it is the names of astronauts that people remember about the space race. But less celebrated are the teams of people working on how to put a rocket into orbit. Only in recent years have stories come to light of the contributions of the black women involved. Many were recr ...  Show more