A Student-Run Magazine
Jane Goodall changed the way humans understand other animals. Though she is famous for her work with chimpanzees, many don’t know that it all started with a stuffed chimp named Jubilee that she received as a gift from her father when she was a child. Jane was born, Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on April 3, 1934 in London, England. Her interest … Read the rest “Jane Goodall”
Elizabeth Blackburn is a Nobel laureate Australian American. She was born on November 26, 1948. Elizabeth Blackburn was a biological researcher at the University of California, San Francisco. She studied a structure called telomere, which is a region at the end of chromosomes. She also worked in medical ethics at the Bush Administration’s President’s Council on Bioethics. In 1984 she … Read the rest “Elizabeth Blackburn Biography”
All 6th grade ESM students will soon begin their first semester interdisciplinary learning service project titled “Improving the Silverlake Reservoir Complex: An Interdisciplinary, Service-Learning Project”. This project engages students with the overall theme of sustainability in the community while making connections among disciplines, applying academic knowledge and skills to solve real-life problems, and gaining other valuable hands-on learning … Read the rest “Improving the Silverlake Reservoir Complex: An Interdisciplinary, Service-Learning Project”
On November 9, 1914, in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, Hedy Lamarr was born. Only daughter of Gertrud Kiesler and Emil Kiesler. After her role in the controversial movie, ‘Extase’ (1932), she ran away from her husband to Paris. Traveling through London, she found the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studio in other words, MGM Studio. Louis B. Mayer offered her a movie contract in Hollywood. … Read the rest “Hedy Lamarr”
Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907. She was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Her parents are Maria Frazier McLean and Robert Warden Carson. Later when she was 11 years old, she won a prize because she wrote a story that got published and it was in St. Nicholas Magazine. Very later when she was in Parnassus, Pennsylvania High School, … Read the rest “Rachel Carson”
Alice Ball was an African American chemist that made an injectable herbal extract. The treatment was most effective for a disease that is called leprosy and it was only for the disease leprosy. Leprosy is a disease that causes that you to have bumps on your skin. Alice Ball was the first African American that obtained her Master’s degree in … Read the rest “Alice Ball”
Do you know who Marie Curie is? Marie Curie is a female scientist. She was born in November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. She was the youngest in her family and had 3 older sister and a brother. Marie Curie’s parents made sure that her and her sisters were as educated as there brother.Her parents were both teachers. That’s how … Read the rest “Marie Curie”
Marie Curie was born in Poland. The whole family had 5 children and their parents would teach in schools.They really liked poetry, books and also liked to learn a lot. Marie’s parents would tell them to study very well to receive good grades to go to College. Marie’s family was lovely but sometimes were not happy. Anyways Marie was ready … Read the rest “Marie Curie”
Famous female scientist Joy Crisp was born April 10, 1958 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She was a Geologist at NASA. She studied Mars, it’s volcanic eruptions, Mineralogy and much more. Joy has been a geologist since 2004. She currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in NASA. She was part of the Fields of Planetary Science.
When Joy was younger, … Read the rest “Joy Crisp”
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was a British chemist who developed protein crystallography, for which she received a Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1964. Dorothy discovered a lot of things during her time of being a scientist. She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of molecules. Dorothy was born on May 12, … Read the rest “Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin”
