Category Archives: Women in Science

Profile: Dr. Masako Miura

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Profile on Dr. Masako Miura an internee and physician at Manzanar Relocation Camp in 1942. Born and raised in California, Dr. Miura graduated from USC Medical School shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Her entire family was interned at Manzanar, and she was one of the few physicians that could offer medical help to the people held behind barbed wire.


Profile: Gavin Emmons and Alacia Welsh

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Profile on biologists, Gavin Emmons and Alacia Welsh. Emmons and Welsh work for the National Park Service and their office is often the cliffs and rock face at the Pinnacles National Monument. Their duties include feeding, watching and monitoring the California Condors and Prairie and Paragon Falcons along with tracking the birds. The Condor program at the Pinnacles plays a vital role in trying to save these magnificent birds.


Profile: Jill Tarter, Astronomer, SETI

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Dr. Jill Cornell Tarter is an American astronomer and the current director of the Center for SETI Research. The mission of the SETI Institute (Search for Extra-terrestrial Intelligence) is to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature and prevalence of life in the universe.

Tarter's astronomical work is illustrated in Carl Sagan's novel Contact.


Profile: Natalie Batalha, Planet Hunter

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Natalie Batalha is a planet hunter. Batalha is a co-investigator for NASA's Kepler mission, whose objective is to find earth-sized planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy.