Women's History Month

Women in Medicine

Alice Augusta Ball

Alice Augusta Ball was an African American chemist who developed the "Ball Method", the most effective treatment for leprosy.

Use this virtual electron microscope to observe samples of all the world has to offer.

Florence Nightingale

Often called “the Lady with the Lamp,” Florence Nightingale was a caring nurse and a leader. In addition to writing over 150 books, pamphlets and reports on health-related issues, she is also credited with creating one of the first versions of the pie chart. However, she is mostly known for making hospitals a cleaner and safer place to be (NatGeo).

Florence Nightingale Coloring Page

Rosalind Franklin

Rosalind Franklin deduced the basic dimensions of DNA strands and their helical structure (Encyclopedia Britannica).

Try this virtual lab to perform a cheek swab and extract DNA from human cells.

Women Aviators

First Woman
Graphic Novel

Bessie Coleman

The first African
American woman and
first Native American
to hold a pilot license.

Learn about Bessie adventures in the sky!

Flight Simulator

Amelia Earhart

The first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.

NASA Women in Full Effect

Katherine Johnson
Calculated trajectories for NASA's Apollo Mission.

Dorothy Vaughn
NASA's first African American manager.

Mary Jackson
First black female engineer at NASA.

Nancy Roman
NASA's first chief astronomer. She was known as the "Mother of Hubble".

The Women's Suffrage Movement

Celebrate Women's History
We begin Women's History Month by acknowledging those women who came before us to fight for equity throughout the years. Below you will find a number of women who are true heroes.