Mother-daughter duo Natalie and Natasha Batalha are collaborating on a mission to discover new worlds. Both astronomers specialize in the study of exoplanets – planets lying outside of our solar system – using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. In February of 2023, they contributed observations of WASP-39b, a hot exoplanet with a Saturn-like mass, as part of the JWST Early Release Science program…
Charity Adams Broke Gender and Race Barriers Serving Her Country and Her Community…
Preeminent and prolific author Joyce Carol Oates is celebrated for her vast literary output, presented in a variety of styles and genres. Since her first book in 1963, she has published 58 novels, multiple plays and novellas, and more than 30 volumes of short stories, poetry, and non-fiction…
New York Times bestselling novelist Tayari Jones is the author of four books and is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Creative Writing at Emory University. Her most known work, Continue Reading
Theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese is a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics. She works Continue Reading
Particle physicist Dr. Sau Lan Wu has participated in three major discoveries, playing a leading role in two. Her contributions towards the discovery of the J/psi particle provided experimental evidence for the existence of the charm quark, the gluon, and the vector boson in the Standard Model of particle physics…
Award-winning Welsh author Sarah Waters knows how to keep her readers turning the pages of her delightfully salacious novels — and she has fun doing it. She has authored six books: “Tipping the Velvet,” “Affinity,” “Fingersmith,” “The Night Watch,” “The Little Stranger,” and “The Paying Guests.” Her first three novels are known for their lesbian protagonists set amidst Victorian Society…
Amy Tan’s novels, short stories, and essays intimately portray growing up as a first-generation American and explore what it is like to be both separate from and a part of Chinese culture. One of the most famous Chinese American writers today, her works showcase storytelling, memory, and the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and sisters.
Once called the “German Marie Curie” by Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish physicist who studied radioactivity and nuclear physics. Her joint research with the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann led to the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission…
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has quickly established herself as a powerful author, storyteller, and advocate in literary and lecture circuits. She weaves themes of politics, culture, race, and gender throughout her novels, short stories, and plays, which have received both public and critical acclaim…
