All posts by Madalyn Weston
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Anna Mani
Anna Mani was born in Travancore, India, on August 23, 1918. She loved to read, reading nearly all the books in Malayalam and English at...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Ayanna Howard
Science fiction has painted robots as the downfall of man, but robots today can do everything from making ice cream to assisting with heart surgeries....
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Mary G. Ross
Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! This week, we pay tribute to the original Americans and the impact they’ve had on our country’s upbringing. One Native American...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Carol Shaw
The video game industry generated more than $100 billion in revenue last year. Though the number of video game developers has risen in recent years,...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Masayo Takahashi
Since the cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, scientists and doctors alike have been fascinated by the innovations and miracle cures that could come...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Idelisa Bonnelly
Madalyn Weston It’s hard not to be fascinated by the ocean and the many strange creatures living in it. Though the closest we get to...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Maryam Mirzakhani
Some people in this world are destined for greatness. From being the first girl on the Iranian Mathematical Olympiad team to the first and only...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Janaki Ammal
Covering topics from structure of plants to genetics, botany – the study of plant life – has applications in medicine, agriculture, climate change and even...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Dr. Karletta Chief
Happy Earth Week 2018, UMKC! This week, we reflect on the miracle of our planet and the work of environmentalists and conservationists to preserve its...
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Celebrating Women in STEM: Megan Smith
Women in technology are scarce, holding only about 25 percent of all computing occupations; a number which has been declining since 1991 (according to the...
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It Will Rock You (Mostly)
Making a movie about Queen is no easy task. How do you condense 30 years of incredible music and the story of Freddie Mercury, who over time has been...
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Kameron Sheffield on making music for film
Imagine getting the chance to make background music for a short film. That’s exactly what UMKC student Kameron Sheffield did, but he wouldn’t quite call his compositions “songs.” Sheffield...
