INSPIRE Women Act
<a href="https://vmps.omeka.net/exhibits/show/motivating-public-service/motivating-public-service">Motivation for the Public Service </a>
The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative Barbara Comstock of Virginia before passing through Congress and being signed into law in February of 2017. The law is focused on increasing the representation of women in STEM careers. The act compels the NASA director to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM fields in many ways. It created both NASA Girls and NASA Boys, virtual mentorship programs where prospective students are paired with a NASA employee to help guide them through their education. Another new program introduced is Aspire to Inspire which is focused on highlighting the early and recent careers of women in NASA and sharing that information with young girls. Through these programs, and the overall directive, H.R. 321 is designed to bring more women into service in fields that they are drastically underrepresented in.
White House
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Wikimedia Commons
2/28/2017
White House
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE_Women_Act">Wikipedia</a><br /><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/321">US Congress</a>
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Legislation
Legislation, Women, Education, Science, Congress
United States
INSPIRE Women Act
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The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative Barbara Comstock of Virginia before passing through Congress and being signed into law in February of 2017. The law is focused on increasing the representation of women in STEM careers.
The act compels the NASA director to encourage women and girls to pursue STEM fields in many ways. It created both NASA Girls and NASA Boys, virtual mentorship programs where prospective students are paired with a NASA employee to help guide them through their education. Another new program introduced is Aspire to Inspire which is focused on highlighting the early and recent careers of women in NASA and sharing that information with young girls. Through these programs, and the overall directive, H.R. 321 is designed to bring more women into service in fields that they are drastically underrepresented in.
Shealah Craighead
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White House
February 28 2017
Shealah Craighead
White House
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INSPIRE_Women_Act">Wikipedia</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/321">U.S. Congress</a>
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English
Law
Law, STEM, Women, US Congress, NASA, Mentorship, Education, Science
United States
Rudolf Jaenisch
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Rudolf Jaenisch (born 22 April 1942) is a Professor of Biology at MIT and a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is a pioneer of transgenic science, in which an animals genetic makeup is altered. Jaenisch has focused on creating genetically modified mice to study cancer and neurological diseases.
Sam Ogden
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Whitehead Institute
June 2003
Sam Ogden
Whitehead Institute
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Jaenisch">Wikipedia</a>
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Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Biology, Transgenic Science, Genetic Engineering, Cancer, Diseases
Germany
Herbert Boyer
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Herbert Wayne "Herb" Boyer (born July 10, 1936) is a researcher and entrepreneur in biotechnology. Along with Stanley N. Cohen and Paul Berg he discovered a method to coax bacteria into producing foreign proteins, thereby jump starting the field of genetic engineering. By 1969, he performed studies on a couple of restriction enzymes of the E.coli bacterium with especially useful properties. He is recipient of the 1990 National Medal of Science, co-recipient of the 1996 LemelsonMIT Prize, and a co-founder of Genentech. He was professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and later served as Vice President of Genentech from 1976 until his retirement in 1991
Douglas A. Lockard
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Science History Institute
June 9 2005
Douglas A. Lockard
Science History Institute
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Boyer">Wikipedia</a>
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Herbert Boyer, Biotech, Bacteria, Genetic Engineering, Science
United States
Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry
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Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agricultures Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff, not long after he joined the division in 1883. Wileys scientific expertise and political skills were a key to passage of the 1906 Food and Drugs Act and the creation of FDA.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1883
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Public Domain
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Agriculture">Wikipedia</a>
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Harvey Wiley, Department of Agriculture, Science, Food and Drugs Act, FDA
United States
Obama signs FSMA into Law
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Obama signs FSMA into Law. The law grants the FDA a number of new powers, including mandatory recall authority, which the agency has sought for many years. The FSMA requires the FDA to undertake more than a dozen rulemakings and issue at least 10 guidance documents, as well as a host of reports, plans, strategies, standards, notices, and other tasks. The new law allows for administrative detention based on reason to believe that the food item has been misbranded or adulterated and thus violates a legal standard for the product.
Pete J. Souza
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Executive Office of the President of the United States
January 4 2011
Pete J. Souza
Executive Office of the President of the United States
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FDA_Food_Safety_Modernization_Act">Wikipedia</a>
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English
Law
FSMA, Law, Science, Obama, Food Safety
United States
FDA Lab 3000
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Feb. 5, 2009; Irvine, CA An FDA microbiologist tests seafood samples for the presence of Salmonella.
Michael J. Ermarth
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
February 5 2009
Michael J. Ermarth
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety">Wikipedia</a> <br /><br />See also: <br /><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm257816.htm">Fish Hazards and Controls: More Than a Fish Story</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm094558.htm">How FDA Regulates Seafood: FDA Detains Imports of Farm-Raised Chinese Seafood</a>
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Test
FDA, Science, Testing, Seafood, Salmonella, Food Safety
United States
Inspecting a Candy Factory
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John Earnshaw, an early food and drug inspector working in and around Baltimore, inspects a clean and sanitary candy factory around 1911/12. Candy in the U.S. was made almost exclusively by women whose working conditions varied from good to abysmal. FDA inspectors and regular inspections played a role in improving working conditions for women. On top: women packing candy eggs at Easter. Bottom: women hand rolling chocolates.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
1911
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Public Domain
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety">Wikipedia</a>
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English
Regulation
FDA, Science, Inspection, Candy, Workers, Women
United States
It fits!
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As Chubarov (2001) put it, in a rapidly changing world, it was the “revolution of the microchip and the computer” taking place in the West that jeopardized the Soviet Union’s status as a great power under Leonid Brezhnev. The inability to incorporate the latest scientific and technological innovations into the production processes became the lid that sealed the coffin of the Soviet economy.
Oboznenko, D.
Rutgers, Continuum
Rutgers, Continuum
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Rutgers, Continuum
"Source: Holzer, M., Illiash, I., Gabrielian, V., & Kuznestsova, L. (2010). Red Tape from Red Square:Bureaucratic Commentary in Soviet Graphic Satirical Art. Poughkeepsie, NY: NetPublicaions Chubarov, A. (2001). <br /><br />Russia’s Bitter Path to Modernity: A History of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Eras. New York, London: Continuum."
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Red-Tape-Square-Bureaucratic-Commentary/dp/0942942116">Red Tape</a><br /><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Russias-Bitter-Path-Modernity-Post-Soviet/dp/0826413501">Modernity</a>
Medium: Poster
Russian
Artwork
Art, Satire, Cartoons, Microchip, Computers, Soviet Union, Science
Russia
Ruth E. Stark, Ph.D. - 2012 Sloan Public Service Award Winner
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Dr. Ruth Stark, distinguished professor of chemistry and acting dean of science at The City College of New York, is one of six extraordinary city employees to receive the 2012 Sloan Public Service Award. She was recognized Wednesday, March 14, at two ceremonies- on the CCNY campus and at Cooper Union- and was presented with the $10,000 prize that accompanies the award.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Dean Stark was honored for her contributions in bringing together talented scientists from complementary fields, for her excellence in mentoring and for being a role model to a generation of young women and men from diverse backgrounds.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">In a video interview, Dean Stark credited CCNY’s and CUNY’s unique climate as a motivating factor: “The extra satisfaction of being at a public institution is that you can feel that you have unlocked something in students that was always there, but might not have come out to flower.”</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Having defied convention to become a chemist at a time when few women entered the field, Dean Stark is an eminent scientist and an inspiring role model for hundreds of young men and women from diverse backgrounds. She earned her PhD in physical chemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and completed her postdoctoral training at MIT.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">After teaching at Amherst College, in 1985 Dr. Stark became an associate professor of chemistry at the City University of New York’s (CUNY) College of Staten Island and the institution’s first woman to build her own scientific research program. She became the founding director of the CUNY Macromolecular Assemblies Institute in 2003 and was promoted to Distinguished Professor in 2005.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">She and her team moved to CCNY in 2007. In June 2010, Professor Stark was appointed acting dean of science, a position from which she will soon step down to focus on teaching and research.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The author of 95 highly cited scientific papers, the selection committee recognized Dean Stark for her unique ability to assemble talent across disciplines. She initiated a research coordination network for emerging biomolecular technologies that has evolved into a worldwide support group funded by the National Science Foundation.</span></p>
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City College of New York
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City College of New York
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City College of New York
Source: <a href="http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/news/Chemist-Ruth-Stark-Receives-Sloan-Public-Service-Award.cfm">Chemist Ruth Stark Receives Sloan Public Service Award</a> (March 15, 2012). City College of New York. Retrieved May 15, 2015
Link: <a href="http://www.fcny.org/fcny/core/sloan/2012/#Stark_Ruth">Fund for the City of New York</a>
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Ruth E. Stark, Sloan Public Service, Chemistry, Science, Women, Awards
New York