Innovations

developed multiple programs that reduce the time it takes to perform data analysis; specializes in Python programming, front-end web design, and developer team management; due to her efforts tasks that used to take 4 ISR analysts 3 months to complete, now take the computer program less than 1 minute;

founded the Black Leadership Development Program (BLDP) in Dayton Ohio in 1982 to educate & train African-Americans to be leaders in their communities; created Parity or Parity Inc in 2000 to facilitate BLDP's training program; fought against segregation & opened doors for African-American women in the military; while commanding the 6888th she developed a new system of organizing & tracking mail & tracking individual service members by maintaining over 7 million information cards which included serial numbers to distinguish members with the same or similar names; her battalion processed over 195,000 pieces of mail & packages daily to clear the backlog in 3 months; 1945 she & her unit transferred to France to clear another backlog of military mail; she & her unit eventually cleared over 17 million pieces of mail during the war

1st woman to receive a military pension due to an injury sustained at the Battle of Ft Washington on November 16, 1776

founder & executive director of ScholarChips; plus-size model, motivational speaker; has a podcast& radio show

patent for weaving straw with silk & threMary Dixon Kies (March 21, 1752 – 1837) was an American inventor. On May 5, 1809, her patent for a new technique of weaving straw with silk and thread to make hats was signed by President James Madison. Because of the Napoleonic Wars, the United States had embargoed all trade with France and Great Britain, creating a need for American-made hats to replace European millinery. The straw-weaving industry filled the gap, with over $500,000 ($9 million in today's money) worth of straw bonnets produced in Massachusetts alone in 1810.[9] The hats produced with this technique were sturdier than others, because Kies’ method of using silk instead of straws in the seam held the cross-hatching together. Also, the hat-making method she introduced was highly cost-effective; thus, a lot of businesses in the hat-manufacturing market adopted it, after Kies’ patent was burned in the fire of the Patent Office in 1836. ad to make hats; patent was lost in Patent Office fire of 1836; considered by many to be the 1st female recipient of a patent (others consider Hannah Slater who received a patent under name Mrs. Samuel Slater or Hazel Irwin to be 1st recipient

* Blum led the expedition which consisted of thirteen women, and six sherpas * Many of the women were especially determined to forge their own leadership methods and styles independent of the male lead expeditions before them * Holds a Gold Medal from the Society of Woman Geographers, an honor previously given to only eight other women including Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead, and Mary Leakey.

invented the 1st boom mic for the 1929 Paramount film The Wild Party but never applied for a patent; 1950 founded filmmaking classes at The Pasadena Playhouse; late 1950s became the entertainment and publicity consultant at the Pepsi-Cola Company making many commercials for them starring Joan Crawford;

* Baca’s public artworks focus on revealing and reconciling diverse peoples’ struggles and affirm the connections of each community to that place * Studied muralism at La Tallera in Cuernavaca, Mexico * Wanted to make art that was accessible beyond the constraints of the gallery and the museum, on the streets and walls of the community * 1970 used rival gang members in her murals to bring the community together * In her mural Raspados Mojados used a street vendor cart to address immigration issues and the misrepresentations of Mexicans living in the United States * Always sought to include community in her artistic processes.

Under the pseudonym E.B. Miriam composed musical pieces, including songs & marches for piano & band; "Boston Elite Quickstep" was reportedly performed by Sousa's band & another of her compositions was used by Theodore Roosevelt's presidential campaign in 1904.

Known for work in carbon nanotubes graphite graphite intercalation compounds fullerenes & low-dimensional thermoelectrics; holds 17 patents

* Yellow Bird Woman Cobell was lead plaintiff in groundbreaking class-action suit challenging the United States' mismanagement of trust funds belonging to more than 500,000 individual Native Americans. * suit challenged the government to account for fees from resource leases. A $3.4 billion settlement for the trust case to partially compensate individual account holders, buy back fractionated land interests, and restore land to reservations. * provided for a $60 million scholarship fund for Native Americans and Alaskan Natives, named the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund. * largest settlement ever in a class action against the federal government.

reportedly holds a patent for therapeutic wound dressing but no patent was located; founded a clothing company she named "Bear Don't Walk Originals;" fought for Indian Health Services to provide &/or pay for medical services for Native americans living outside of reservations

* In 1883, Winnemucca left her home in the Pacific Northwest and traveled across the United States. * She delivered nearly 300 lectures, addressing injustices against Native Americans. * The press called her the "Paiute Princess." * Winnemucca’s autobiography, “Life Among the Piutes” was published in 1883, the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman."

Documenting Sea Turtles

* Valerino worked as a navigation engineer for the Cassini mission. * Her further research interests include optimal control, trajectory optimization (low thrust) & flight path control. * Valerino has worked on the x-38 vehicle (ISS Lifeboat) team, the proposed Jupiter Icy Moon Orbiter mission, the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft & Artemis mission.

* Cohen’s work on the Abort-Guidance System is credited with helping save Apollo 13. * In other positions she worked as an electrical engineer on the Minuteman missile, the science ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, and the Apollo Space Program.

Co-creator of Barabasi-Albert algorithm with Albert Laszlo Barabasi

globally recognized for her translational research on the underlying neurobiology of substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric disorders; pioneering work on the transgenerational effects of cannabis on the developing brain; conducts human critical trials in developing novel therapies for opiod use disorders-currently investigating the use of CBD to reduce craving for heroin

Investigates the molecular & genetic basis of learning memory & its disorders especially epilepsy & Alzheimers; discovered the role of NF-kB in fear memory formation & in epilepsy leading to memory loss; found a3B1 integrin signalling may be responsible for suppression of cytokine responses in epithelial cells during inflammation & wound healing

Addressed the need to improve science education & research opportunities at minority institutions; helped establish Delta Research & Educational Foundation (DREF); helped launch Head Start Program

* Canady was co-inventor of a programmable antisiphon shunt system designed to treat hydrocephalus, a condition in which excess cerebrospinal fluid accumulates in the brain's ventricles. * The device allowed for pressure adjustments without additional surgical intervention and helped reduce complications associated with overdrainage. * It incorporated antisiphon mechanisms and programmability features that enabled safer, more personalized cerebrospinal fluid management in pediatric patients.

She led her family's newspaper, The Washington Post, from 1963 to 1991. Graham presided over the paper as it reported on the Watergate scandal, which eventually led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon. She was the first 20th century female publisher of a major American newspaper and the first woman elected to the board of the Associated Press. Graham's memoir, Personal History, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998.

Helped rescue 9 people from a shipwreck in 1838

* Wu is known for the Wu Experiment which proved parity was not conserved * Worked on the Manhattan Project, and helped develop the process for separating uranium into uranium-235 & uranium-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion *Was an authority on beta decay * In 1975 Wu met with President Ford & requested he form an advisory scientific body resulting in the formation of the Office of Science & Technology Policy.

* Mahoney was born in 1845 and knew from a young age that she wanted to be a nurse, possibly due to seeing immediate emergence of nurses during the American Civil War. * As an adult she was admitted into a sixteen-month program at the New England Hospital for Women and Children and in 1879 she became the first African-American to graduate from an American school of nursing. * In her professional life, Mahoney became acutely aware of discrimination in the nursing field. To address this, Mahoney met in 1908 with two nursing colleagues to found the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses (NACGN). * This organization worked to improve access to educational and nursing practices and to raise standards of living for African-American registered nurses. * The NACGN continued to play a foundational role in eliminating racial discrimination in the registered nursing profession until it was integrated into the American Nurses Association in 1951.

* Staupers fought for the full inclusion of nurses of all races in the U.S. military; this was granted in January 1945. * At the time the military had a strict 56 black nurse quota to enter the service and it enforced segregated practices for those who were already in the service. * Staupers attacked the hypocrisy of Surgeon General Norman T. Kirk's plan to draft white women as nurses instead of enlisting qualified black nurses to meet the shortage of nurses in the military. * In 1945 the U.S Army opened its Armed Forces Nurses Corps to all applicants regardless of race. * In 1948, the American Nursing Association followed suit and allowed African-American nurses to become members.

co-founder of what would become the National League for Nursing with Isabel Hampton Robb & Mary Adelaide Nutting; with Nutting wrote a 4 volume history of nursing (1907-12); 1890 wrote Matera Medica for Nurses, the standard manual of drugs for many years; 1893 founded Nurses" Associated Alumnae (now American Nurses Association); with Ethel Gordon Fenwick founded the International council of Nurses (1899); helped organize the National association of colored Graduate Nurses in 1908; campaigned for nursing to be declared as a profession & to allow nurses rather than physicians to control their profession

1895 established the Baltimore Visiting Nursing Association; is 1 of the founders of the National Women's Party Minnesota Branch (1915) & was chair 1915-1920; was a Red Cross & Army nurse during WWI & was given the rank of Major; was acting Surgical Chief of Nursing at Fort McHenry during WWI; her autobiography "A Rebel in Thought" was published in 1944; 1 of the leading women's rights activists inMinnesota & advocate for birth control

helped increase the number of women in the nursing reserves & after 1912 traveled to recruit women to train as nurses & volunteer in the Armed Services during times of war; thanks to her by 1917 there were 8,000 nurses ready to serve immediately in WWI & by 1918 at least 18,732 nurses had volunteered to serve in the war; spearheaded efforts to organize emergency response teams for disaster relief; was an advocate for providing health education & social services to rural communities & founded Red Cross Town & Country Nursing Services in 1912 to bring health care to rural areas (now known as American National red Cross Public Health Nursing Service); worked to get nurses recognition as full members of the medical profession; established courses for the training of nurses' aides; 1909 founded Red Cross Nursing Services

1907 helped establish the 1st hospital & nursing school on Maryland's eastern shore, Easton Memorial Hospital; with Elizabeth Wright Dixon began the nursing school run solely by volunteers; 1909 chaired the special sanitary committee run through the Maryland Association for the Prevention & Relief of Tuberculosis; elected chairman of the Women's Suffrage Association of Maryland 1909; was chair of the legislative committee of the Just Government League of Maryland 1910; during WWI fought for nurses to receive officer rank; founded the Talbot County League of Women Voters; helped establish the Talbot County chapter of the Children's Aid Society

1965 co-founded the Nurse Practitioner Model with pediatrician Dr. Henry Silver

* Abdellah’s 21 Nursing Problems Theory prioritizes the holistic needs of individuals over merely addressing their medical conditions. * Categorizes nursing challenges into a systematic structure that aids nurses in comprehensively assessing and addressing patient needs. * The theory identifies four levels of nursing problems, ranging from basic care requirements to restorative care needs. * This categorization supports healthcare professionals in prioritizing interventions based on the severity and complexity of patient issues. * 21 Nursing Problems Theory represented a significant transformation in nursing education and practice. * Abdellah also in 1955 formed the National Institute of Nursing Research.

1985 founded MedAire Inc; 1987, founded MedLink; critical care flight nurse, telemed pioneer; offered the 1st global in-flight assistance program; founded a paramedic training program; author of One Life Lost, Millions Gained - The Story of a Flight Nurse Turned MedAire CEO;

* Petry Leone became the founding director of the Cadet Nurse Corps, created by Congress in 1943 to provide federal funds for housing and training costs of educating nurses. * The cost of a student's tuition, fees, room, and board as well as a monthly stipend would be paid. * From July 1943 to October 1945, about 132,000 women were admitted to colleges across the country under the act. * In exchange for federal funding, participating colleges were required to establish a 24- to 30-month accelerated education program for nurse candidates. The women who enrolled had to pledge to "engage in essential nursing, military or civilian, for the duration of the war.” * On graduation, the cadet nurse had received a complete nursing education, and was eligible to become a registered nurse. * The program was a success, training 124,000 nurse cadets, making it unnecessary to draft nurses for war service. * This program was instrumental in laying the academic foundations for standardized nursing education.

* Following her nursing experience in the Crimean War, Nightingale returned to England to found the first professional nurse training school in London in 1860. It was the first secular nursing school in the world. * As part of the developing nursing curriculum, she stressed the need for improving sanitary conditions, including hand washing, to decrease the death rate of patients. * Her social reforms included improving healthcare for all sections of British society, advocating better hunger relief in India, helping to abolish prostitution laws that were harsh for women, and expanding the acceptable forms of female participation in the workforce.

published over 20 papers on the availability of essential amino acids from foods;

* Menkin was famous for her in vitro fertilization (IVF) research with John Rock. In February 1944, she became the first person to conceive human life outside of the body. * As medicine advanced, IVF was transformed from natural research to a stimulated clinical treatment.

* As the first African-American woman licensed to practice in South Carolina, Evans was able to treat both white and black patients, causing her services to be in great demand. * She built up a large clientele of wealthy white women, who paid her sufficiently to allow her to treat poor black women and children for free. Her large and rare interracial clientele were built up due to her great discretion and professionalism. * She practiced obstetrics, gynecology, and surgery, and cared for patients in her own home until she established the Taylor Lane Hospital and Training School for Nurses, the first Black hospital in the city of Columbia, in 1901.