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White House, INSPIRE Women Act
White House, INSPIRE Women Act, Wikimedia Commons, 2/28/2017
The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative…
Tags: Congress, Education, Legislation, Science, Women
UC Santa Barbara, National Institute of Justice
UC Santa Barbara, National Institute of Justice, UC Santa Barbara, 2019
Mission The National Institute of Justice — the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice — is dedicated to…
Tags: Crime Reduction, Department of Justice, DOJ, National Institute of Justice, NIJ, Research, Science
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Chemistry, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1883
Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the Department of Agricultures Division of Chemistry (third from the right) with his staff, not long after he joined…
Tags: Department of Agriculture, FDA, Food and Drugs Act, Harvey Wiley, Science
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Inspecting a Candy Factory, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 1911
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…
Shealah Craighead, INSPIRE Women Act
Shealah Craighead, INSPIRE Women Act, White House, February 28 2017
The Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers Act (H.R. 321), or INSPIRE Women Act, was introduced by Representative…
Tags: Education, Law, Mentorship, NASA, Science, STEM, US Congress, Women
Samuel D. Ehrhart, Peter Cooper's Generous Example
Samuel D. Ehrhart, Peter Cooper's Generous Example, Library of Congress, 1902
"If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 – April 4, 1883)…
Tags: Education, Locomotive, Peter Cooper, Philanthropy, Science, Steam
Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch
Sam Ogden, Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute, June 2003
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…
Tags: Biology, Cancer, Diseases, Genetic Engineering, Rudolf Jaenisch, Science, Transgenic Science
Pete J. Souza, Obama signs FSMA into Law
Pete J. Souza, Obama signs FSMA into Law, Executive Office of the President of the United States, January 4 2011
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…
Tags: Food Safety, FSMA, Law, Obama, Science
National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation Celebrating 50 Years 1950-2000
National Science Foundation, National Science Foundation Celebrating 50 Years 1950-2000, National Science Foundation, No date
The U.S. national Science Foundation promotes the progress of science to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare and to secure the…
Tags: National Defense, National Science Foundation, Nifty50, Science, US