Introductions Necessary
- Autor: Vários
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- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 10:15:00
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Now airing season two celebrating women working "above the line" in film and television.
Episódios
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Ashanti Johnson
02/09/2024 Duração: 02minThe first African American to earn a degree in marine science from Texas A&M, Dr. Ashanti Johnson has loved the ocean since and early age. Continuing her studies at Texas A&M University she became the first and only to date African American to earn a doctorate in chemical oceanography. Image: Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Molly Stevens
01/09/2024 Duração: 02minAs a professor of Biomedical Materials and Regenerative Medicine, Dr. Molly Stevens is also the Research Director for Biomedical Material Sciences in the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College. Image: James Duncan Davidson (CC BY-NC 2.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Mary Putnam Jacobi
31/08/2024 Duração: 02minThe first woman to earn a degree from the New York College of Pharmacy, Dr. Mary Putnam Jacobi would go on to change the lives of women both as a doctor and educator. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Sylvia Earle
30/08/2024 Duração: 02minSylvia Earle, dubbed, “Her Deepness” by The New Yorker, has experience as a field research scientist, government official, and director for corporate and nonprofit organizations. But all her work has led her to focus on preserving the world’s oceans. Image: NOAA. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Rita Colwell
29/08/2024 Duração: 02minTo continue her efforts in making the world a safer place Dr. Rita Colwell founded CosmosID, a genomic big data company that is focused on the rapid identification of microorganisms for infectious disease diagnostics, food safety inspections, pharmaceutical discovery, public health surveillance, and microbiome analysis for health and wellness. Image: The National Science Foundation. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Alyson McGregor
28/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Alyson McGregor examines how sex and gender differences impact emergency medical care and the overall health of women and she works on communicating these differences to medical professionals and the public. Image Via LinkedIn. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Flossie Wong-Staal
27/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Flossie Wong-Staal was the first scientist to clone HIV, helping lead to blood tests and better treatments for the virus. She says that her main motivation “is simply the satisfaction of making discoveries, finding things out that no one knew before.” Image: National Cancer Institute. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Mona Hanna-Attisha
26/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Mona Hanna-Attisha was one of the key individuals to expose lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan and bring attention to the contamination in the water supply. Image: Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Anna Atkins
25/08/2024 Duração: 02minIn 1843, photographer and botanist Anna Atkins became the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographs. Image: Wikipedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Chung-Pei Ma
24/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Chung-Pei Ma has helped discover two of the largest black holes found to date and is also a classical violinist that played with the Youth Symphony in Taiwan at age 8 and still enjoys playing as a hobby. Image Courtesy of UC Berkeley. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Antonia Novello
23/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Antonia Novello was appointed Surgeon General of the United States in 1990, becoming the first woman and first Hispanic to serve in that role. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Virginia Holsinger
22/08/2024 Duração: 02minA food scientist with a positive worldwide public health impact, Dr. Virginia Holsinger‘s work on food security issues and dairy product research impacted many lives throughout her 41 year career at the United States Department of Agriculture. Image: USDA. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Barbara Liskov
21/08/2024 Duração: 02minThe recipient of the 2008 Turing Award, Dr. Barbara Liskov is an Institute Professor and member of the Programming Methodology group at MIT. Image: Kenneth C. Zirkel (CC BY-SA 3.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Isabel Morgan
20/08/2024 Duração: 02minIsabel Morgan's work was a critical step in the journey toward a killed-virus polio vaccine. Image: Wikimedia. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Ila Fox Loetscher
19/08/2024 Duração: 02minToday we want to tell you about aviator turned conservationist Ila Fox Loetscher. Image Courtesy of Sea Turtle Inc. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Margaret Reed Lewis
19/08/2024 Duração: 02minMargaret Reed Lewis earned her bachelor’s degree in biology from Goucher College in 1901 and spent the next few years studying for a graduate degree. She never quite achieved that goal but made great strides in our understanding of cells and tissues during her lifetime. Image: Smithsonian Institution Archives. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Erna Schneider Hoover
18/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Erna Hoover has been quoted as saying that, “when I was hired the glass ceiling was somewhere between the basement and the sub-basement.” But that didn’t stop her from developing a program that would change the way telephone systems operated and being awarded one of the first patents for computer software. Image Courtesy of the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Natalie Panek
16/08/2024 Duração: 02minAn advocate for women in STEM fields, Natalie Panek is a program advisor and mentor for Cybermentor, an online mentoring program for girls in grades 6 to 12 in Alberta, Canada along with being a systems engineer for space robots at MDA Space. Image Courtesy of @nmpanek on Instagram. Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Jill Tarter
15/08/2024 Duração: 02minThe inspiration for the novel Contact and its subsequent film, Dr. Jill Tarter has spent over 35 years searching the vast universe for evidence of extra-terrestrial intelligence. Image: Victor R. Ruiz (CC BY 2.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms
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Fabiola Gianotti
14/08/2024 Duração: 02minDr. Fabiola Gianotti has been a leader at CERN since the 1990's, and is serving as their Director-General until 2025. Image: ATLAS Experiment at CERN (CC BY-SA 4.0). Sources and additional reading are available at https://introductionsnecessary.com Join us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ninehourfilms