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Lisa Houston, director of applications engineering at PAC, LP, started her career when she least expected to. She shares her journey to remind youn...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Maria Maccecchini
Maria Maccecchini, president and founder of QR Pharma, shares her thoughts about her mentors and the encouragement that helped her go a long way.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:15
Caption: Zafra Lerman
Zafra Lerman is the president and founder of Methods Integrating Music, Science, Art and Dance. Here she shares some thoughts about her collaborati...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:09
Caption: Sarah Widder
Sarah Widder, a research engineer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), shares her experience as a young...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Marye Anne Fox
Marye Anne Fox, recipient of the 2010 National Medal of Science, had her first child while working toward her Ph.D. Here, she shares thoughts about...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
Caption: Juana Acrivos
Juana Acrivos, professor emeritus of chemistry at San Jose State University, reminds us that sometimes we must leave our expectations at the door—w...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 02:37
Caption: Carolyn Ribes
Carolyn Ribes, a business analytical leader for the Dow Chemical Company, emphasizes knowing what you want and using that knowledge to create a ful...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:26
Caption: Cheryl Baldwin Frech
Cheryl Baldwin Frech, professor of chemistry at the University of Central Oklahoma, talks about her lifelong mentor and the importance of pace when...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:15
Caption: Lesley Yellowlees
Lesley Yellowlees, the first woman president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in the United Kingdom, shares her secret to maintaining ambitious, h...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:51
Caption: Melanie Szulczewski
Melanie Szulczewski, assistant professor of environmental science at the University of Mary Washington, shares her decision to take the scenic rout...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
Caption: Carmen Drahl
Carmen Drahl, senior editor of Chemical and Engineering News, used her Ph.D. in chemistry as a springboard into the career she envisioned for herse...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:39
Caption: June Wispelwey
June Wispelwey, executive director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), shares what she's learned from a challenging career.

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
Caption: Madeleine Jacobs
Madeleine Jacobs, executive director and CEO of the American Chemical Society, tells the story of how she got her first job at Chemical & Engineeri...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2013
  • Length: 04:18
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About 12 percent of women develop breast cancer. But years of studies have shown that for female flight attendants, nurses, factory workers, and ot...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Groks Science Radio Show
Dr. Melissa Gilliam joined us to discuss sexual health in young people

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WRNC-LP, and KMXT


  • Added: May 25, 2011
  • Length: 32:13
  • Purchases: 3
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The story of Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize winning work

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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The introducation of technology has not reduced the amount of time spent on housework.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:18
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Men and women are built differently and thus their bicycles should reflect these differences.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:30
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Ten year old Becky Schroeder, one of the world's youngest inventors, create "glo-sheets" - glowing paper.

  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:24
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Hazel Bishop, a chemist, build a multi-million dollar cosmetics company based on smear-proof lipstick.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Nov 02, 2009
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
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Women in the ultimate Man’s World – the labs and Shuttle crew cabins of NASA in the 60s and 70s.

Bought by KUHF, Morehead State Public Radio, KRBD, WVTF, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Oct 22, 2009
  • Length: 59:07
  • Purchases: 82
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Dr Liisa Kauppi explains how she came to New York to study sex cells

  • Added: Jun 10, 2008
  • Length: 02:22