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JKX Comics honors the amazing work of Dr. Mazlan Othman (@MazlanAstropx), an astrophysicist who served as the director of @UNOOSA. Dr. Othman has a passion for teaching and promoting astronomy where she develops programs to showcase the beauty of space. #AAPIHeritageMonth
It’s our honor today to highlight Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb, a dedicated cancer biologist and advocate who discovered an effective treatment for some skin cancers, lung cancers, and childhood leukemia! #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #BlackAndSTEM
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Happy #LatinXheritagemonth!
Are you familiar with Jacinto Convit, a Venezuelan physician and scientist? Dr. Convit is a decorated scientist who is remembered for his contributions to understanding leprosy, leishmaniasis, parasitology.
To close out AAPI month, we celebrate the remarkable work of Dr. Gloria Lim, a mycologist from Singapore focusing on tropical fungi. She has built a repository of regional fungi and published over 100 scientific articles/chapters on mycology.
#AAPIHM #AAPIHeritageMonth #AAPI
We honor the brilliant work of Anna Katherine “Kay” Behrensmeyer, who revolutionized the field of taphonomy (study of how organisms become fossilized) and paleoecology (study of how organisms interact with each other and the environment across time periods). #WHM2021 #WomenInSTEM
Today for #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth we’re highlighting the work of Dr.Karletta Chief. Chief, (@nativehydro ) is a hydrologist focused on mitigating the impacts of climate change on water resources and restoring balance to native land.
Today, JKX Celebrates the amazing work of Mary Golda Ross an engineer and mathematician at Lockheed Corporation. She is the first Indigenous (Cherokee) woman engineer and her research focuses on aerospace design for space travel. #STEMDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Valerie L. Thomas is a physicist and inventor, best known for her creation of the illusion transmitter, for which she holds the patent, while working for NASA in the 1970s-80s.
#blackhistorymonth #blackandstem #vanguardstem #WomenInSTEM #HiddenFigures
Explorer #MatthewHenson was one the first to arrive at the North Pole alongside an Inuit explorer. That's right, even before jolly old St. Nick. This feat is often wrongfully credited to Robert Peary, who had not arrived until nearly an hour later. #BHM
#BlackAndSTEM #BlackHistoryMonth #VanguardSTEM Meet Dr. Lloyd Augustus Hall, a chemist who revolutionized the food industry. Dr. Hall received his Doctorate in Science from Virginia State College in 1944.