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Today's Women’s History Month post celebrates UChicago alumna and zoologist Libbie Hyman (B.S. 1910, PhD 1915). Hyman penned two laboratory manuals for the University of Chicago Press which quickly became widely-used around the world. The Linnean Society awarded her a Gold Medal in Zoology in 1960. Here she is pictured with the UChicago zoology department in 1926.

Learn more about Libbie Hyman.

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Lunar Eclipse from Italy

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Lab days are far from over 🧫🧪👽🤙🏻

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FemaleLegends Vol.I - Anita Borg

Hello again and welcome to our new activity, the female legends trend! This trend is about getting to know those women that successfully distinguished themselves in STEM fields. Expect this to be a monthly trend, if not more often. It’s about time for women to familiarize with some female role models in a male-dominated field.

Our first legend will (obviously) be Anita Borg, an excellent technologist as well as a fearless visionary that inspired and motivated many women to involve with technology.

Anita Borg (1949-2003) was the founder of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology as well as a member of the research staff at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center. Born in Chicago, she received her Computer Science PhD from New York University at 1981 and worked as a programmer before, during and after her studies. Her dissertation was on operating system synchronization efficiency and she developed a fault tolerant Unix-based operating system, first for Auragen Systems Corp. of New Jersey and then with Nixdorf Computer in Germany [1]. Before her research career at Xerox she worked for many years at Digital Equipment Corporation, also as a programmer, where she developed and patented a method for generating complete address traces for analyzing and designing high-speed memory systems [1]. While working as a programmer, Borg was passionate about an important issue she started to notice: the lack of females involved with technology. Firstly she founded Systers, an email network for women in tech; during their meetings she actually observed this absence. Eight years later, she and Telle Whitney founded the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, a conference from women scientists to women scientists. Finally in 1997, Borg founded the Institute for Women and Technology, an organization focused on women’s involvement on science and tech, which on 2003 was renamed to Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology in order to honor her legacy. Image Source: http://ignite.globalfundforwomen.org/ [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Borg