AFTER THE UNITED STATES ENTERED WORLD WAR II, PROFESSOR Grace Hopper joined the Navy. She was too light to get in, missing the minimum weight for her height by 16 pounds, but she received a dispensation. She could have received another dispensation to relieve her from basic training, because the Navy was interested only in using her mind, not in making her into a sailor.
Women inventors
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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Name: Arlyne Simon, PhD
Birthdate: March 30, 1986
Hometown: Laudat Village, Dominica
Education: Georgia Tech, majored in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering; University of Michigan, PhD in Macromolecular Science and Engineering
What is it that you hold a patent in?
It’s a diagnostic…
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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Mackenzie Andrews, Jennifer Steger, and Allisa Song of the Nanodropper Team. Photo by Matt Hagan/UW Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
What is Nanodropper?
Put simply, we make eyedrops smaller. This reduces medication waste, makes medications more affordable, and increases access to…
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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Name: Brooke Martin
Birthdate: Dec. 2, 1999
Hometown: Spokane, Washington
Education: Stanford University, Class of 2021, Majoring in Management Science and Engineering
Invention: iCPooch
Photo Courtesy of Brooke Martin
What is iCPooch?
iCPooch is a device that allows two-way…
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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Name: Katy Flannery (left)
Born: December 11, 1989
Hometown: North Attleboro, Massachusetts
Education: Villanova University, Class of 2012, Nursing Major
Name: Gwen Burlingame (right)
Born: April 3, 1990
Hometown: Springfield, Virginia
Education: Villanova University, Class of 2012,…
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Winter 2020 | Volume 26, Issue 1
Bette Nesmith Graham didn’t set out to earn millions: she just needed a way to correct her frequent typing mistakes as a secretary at the Texas Bank & Trust in Dallas in the early 1950s. In the process this single mother invented and patented Liquid Paper, a product that transformed the working…
Innovations
