WOMEN AND ADVERSITY
ELINOR “LIN” AWAN OSTROM
2009
FIRST WOMAN TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Elinor “Lin” Awan Ostrom was of the era when women were discouraged from pursuing an education or a career other than teaching, nursing or secretarial. Ostrom was also discouraged from taking trigonometry in high school because her algebra and geometry grades weren’t stellar. As a result, she was rejected as a Ph.D. student in economics becaus ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY
ADA MONZÓN
METEOROLOGIST, PUERTO RICO
NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Until the 1970s, men dominated news broadcasting, including weather, but when the Equal Rights Amend ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY: CAROLINA CRUZ-NEIRA
PIONEER IN VIRTUAL REALITY
NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
I remember seven years ago going to a virtual reality arcade to cover a story I was assigned ...
