On September 3rd at 5pm, the Black Student Union of Seattle is hosting this panel “Through our Eyes: The Black Student Experience on Campus.” Please join us for this campus-wide discussion about racial-equity and social justice. Register at pr2ism.org/ Since…
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We here at WCS loooove Ada Lovelace. We also looove Anita Sarkeesian (and hosted her at UW this past January)! What better than a youtube video about Duchess Lovelace presented BY Anita Sarkeesian? Enjoy!
Leave a CommentAs you may have seen on Google’s page, this March 23rd marks what would have been Emmy Noether’s 133rd birthday. If you hadn’t heard of Emmy Noether before, you’re not alone (I hadn’t either); it just goes to show how…
Leave a CommentHappy birthday on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of December to Grace Hopper, Ada Lovelace, and Annie Jump Cannon, respectively! Grace Hopper: Born December 9, 1906 in New York City, Grace Hopper was said to always be curious. At the…
Leave a CommentNovember 9th would have been Hedy Lamarr’s 100th birthday. If you weren’t aware, in addition to her acting career, Lamarr also helped invent frequency-hopping spread-spectrum signalling to prevent frequency jams of communications between submarines and torpedoes. Lamarr was born in…
Leave a CommentHappy birthday to Lise Meitner (136) and Marie Curie (147)! Lise Meitner was born in Vienna in 1878. She obtained her doctoral degree in physics from the University of Vienna in 1905 (she had to attend a private institution, since…
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