March 2013 National Women's History Month

For March 2013, the National Women’s History Project selected the theme,

"Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination:

Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."

It is with great pleasure that the National Women's History Project announces the Honorees for National Women’s History Month 2013. The 18 women chosen are all extraordinary visionaries and role models in the STEM fields, where women are still noticeably underrepresented.

The 2013 Honorees represent a remarkable range of accomplishments and a wide diversity of specialties including medicine, robotics, computer programming, atmospheric chemistry, architecture and primatology. These women’s lives and work span the centuries of American history and come from different cultural and ethnic backgrounds. We are proud to honor them and all women seeking to advance these important fields.

The Honorees are

Hattie Elizabeth Alexander (1901–1968) Pediatrician and Microbiologist

Marlyn Barrett (1954)  K-12 STEM Educator

Patricia Era Bath (1942) Ophthalmologist and Inventor

Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910) Physician

Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979) Physicist and Inventor

Edith Clarke (1883–1959) Electrical Engineer

Rita R. Colwell (1934) Molecular Microbial Ecologist and Scientific Administrator

Dian Fossey (1932–1985) Primatologist and Naturalist

Susan A. Gerbi (1944) Molecular Cell Biologist

Helen Greiner (1967) Mechanical Engineer and Roboticist

Grace Murray Hopper (1906–1992)Computer Scientist

Olga Frances Linares (1936) Anthropologist and Archaeologist

Julia Morgan (1872–1957) Architect

Louise Pearce (1885–1959) Physician and Pathologist

Jill Pipher (1955) Mathematician

Mary G. Ross  (1908–2008) Mechanical Engineer

Susan Solomon (1956) Atmospheric Chemist

Flossie Wong-Staal (1946) Virologist and Molecular Biologist