Dow AgroSciences and IUPUI Celebrate Women’s History Month with Free Exhibit
As long as there has been chemistry, women have made contributions that affect everyday life—from providing farmers with products designed to help them protect crops to inventing a fabric that can stop a bullet. The history of women chemists is a story of great discoverers. Meet the women who dared in a new exhibit at IUPUI.
"Her Lab in Your Life: Women in Chemistry" explores the accomplishments of women chemists throughout history, including many who are breaking new scientific ground today. Many of these women had to overcome great discrimination to pursue their science, creating paths for future chemists to follow.
"Women in Chemistry" presents the stories of 68 women, including Shannon Lucid, the NASA biochemist who set the American record for most days in space; Susan Solomon, who determined the chemistry behind the ozone hole; and Ruth Benerito, who helped win the war on wrinkles with the invention of "wash and wear" cotton fabrics in the 1950s.
"We're confident that an exhibit showcasing the rich history of women chemists will grab the attention of girls and young women and reveal to them the possibility of chemistry as a career," said Kay Kuenker, Vice President, New Business Platforms at Dow AgroSciences, the global agricultural research-based company headquartered in Indianapolis, who is sponsoring the exhibit in partnership with the School of Science at IUPUI.
"As Indiana advances its life sciences sector, there has never been more opportunity for women to explore careers in science, technology and mathematics."
The exhibit is free and open to the public. It is on view at the IUPUI Campus Center Cultural Arts Gallery (located at 420 University Boulevard) through April 30, 2008.
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