Diana Garcia-Prichard

Born: 1949

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: Hispanic

college of San Mateo LVN 1969; California State University at Hayward BS Chemistry/Physics 1983; University of Rochester MS 1985 & PhD 1988 both in Physical Chemistry

""Physical science was perfectly suited to my thought processes," she says. "It was the first time in my life that I found something I really wanted to do." (nap.nationalacademies.org); "In grad school I knew I wanted to do research, and I thought I would become a professor and help my community back home in California. But my adviser told me it was too difficult for women to get grants or academic jobs. I didn't have the experience to know there were grants for minorities, and my adviser didn't know it. Fortunately I've had a wonderful research experience here. And Kodak, being a big company, has been able to support some of my other goals." (nap.nationalacademies.org); "

— Diana Garcia-Prichard

Field of Study: Physical Chemistry

Institution/Corporation: Eastman Kodak

Degrees & Memberships: Member: Sigma Xi; Sigma Pi Sigma; Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers; Hispanic Democratic Women's Network of Washington DC; University of Rochester Fellow; Center for the Advancement of Hispanics in Science & Engineering Education; Advisory Board of Great Lakes Industrial Technology Center; Board of Trustees Monroe Community College (1994); American Chemical society; Latinas Unidas

Awards: 1990 President's Volunteer Action Award; 1995 Pride & Reputation Award

Achievements: constructed the first instrument ever to be able to measure van der Waals clusters ( the van der Waals equation accounts for the non-ideal behavior of gases at the molecular level); co-founded, within Eastman Kodak, the Hispanic Organization for Leadership and Advancement (HOLA);founded a program in Rochester called "Partnership in Education" that provides Hispanic role models in the classroom to teach science and math to limited English proficient students; founder of Latinas Unidas;