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500 Queer Scientists
500 Queer Scientists is a visibility campaign for LGBTQ+ people working in the sciences. Queer scientists submit short descriptions of their lives to the organization; these are manually checked and proof-read before being posted to the group's website. In collating submissions, the organization intends to show queer people currently working in science that there are others like them, to provide role models for future generations of researchers, and to create a database that can be used when planning events to ensure representation. History The group was founded in San Francisco on 4 June 2018, by Lauren Esposito, an arachnology professor at the California Academy of Sciences and Sean Vidal Edgerton, a science illustrator and evolutionary virologist at the academy. In the press release announcing its foundation, the organization referenced, as part of its motivation, a 2016 paper in the ''Journal of Homosexuality'' that found that, in 2013, more than 40% of respondents to a su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Esposito
Lauren Esposito is the assistant curator and Schlinger chair of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences. She is the co-founder of the network 500 Queer Scientists. Early life and education Esposito was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. She kept a collection of insects in egg cartons, and her first grade science project looked at the Mendelian genetics of pigeon colours. Esposito earned her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Texas at El Paso in 2003. She became interested in scorpions during a National Science Foundation placement at the American Museum of Natural History. She moved to New York for her graduate studies. She completed her PhD at the CUNY Graduate Center and the American Museum of Natural History (Scorpion Systematics Research Lab) in 2011. Her dissertation, "Systematics and Biogeography of the New World Scorpion Genus Centruroides Marx, 1890", considered Buthidae scorpions. Research and career In 2011 she joined University of California, B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eos (newspaper)
''Eos, Transactions, American Geophysical Union'', is a weekly magazine of Earth science published by John Wiley & Sons for the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The magazine, based in Washington, DC, publishes news, book reviews, AGU journal and meeting abstracts, meeting programs and reports, a comprehensive meetings calendar, and announcements of grants, fellowships, and employment opportunities, as well as peer-reviewed articles on current research and on the relationship of geoscience to social and political questions. Since 2015 it is published in magazine form and is available electronically. A hardcover edition of ''Eos'' is published once each year and contains the articles, news, and editorials from the tabloid issues. ''Eos'' accepts both display and classified advertising. History ''Transactions of the American Geophysical Union'' began publication as proceedings of the organization's meetings. In 1920, the first volume was reprinted from volume 6, number 10 of the ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rochelle Diamond
Rochelle Anne "Shelley" Diamond is a research biologist, queer activist, and chair emeritus of Out to Innovate, formerly known as National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals. She is the Director of California Institute of Technology's Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Shared Resource Laboratory and the Lab Manager for Ellen Rothenberg's research lab. Early life and education Diamond grew up in Phoenix, Arizona and was a tomboy as a child. After college, Diamond married a man who was a friend. Her husband was aware that she was lesbian, but was somewhat accepting. They divorced after 10 years of marriage. Diamond came out to her family as lesbian in her 20s. Diamond earned a dual bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1974. Career Diamond is the applications specialist and Director of the flow cytometry and cell sorting shared resource laboratory at the California Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Conway
Lynn Ann Conway (born January 2, 1938) is an American computer scientist, electrical engineer and transgender activist. She worked at IBM in the 1960s and invented generalized dynamic instruction handling, a key advance used in out-of-order execution, used by most modern computer processors to improve performance. She initiated the Mead-Conway VLSI chip design revolution in very large scale integrated (VLSI) microchip design. That revolution spread rapidly through the research universities and computing industries during the 1980s, incubating an emerging electronic design automation industry, spawning the modern 'foundry' infrastructure for chip design and production, and triggering a rush of impactful high-tech startups in the 1980s and 1990s."Lynn Conway: 2009 Computer Pioneer Award Recipie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Coles
Peter Coles (born 1963) is a theoretical cosmologist at Maynooth University. He studies the large scale structure of our Universe. He studied for his PhD in 1985-1988, subsequently becoming a postdoctoral researcher at Sussex and Queen Mary, subsequently becoming a lecturer there. He was a professor at Cardiff University starting in 2007, and from 2013 he was the head of the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Sussex. In 2017 he started working at Maynooth University, becoming head of the Department of Theoretical Physics in 2019. Early life and education He was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and educated at the Royal Grammar School, Newcastle. He did his first degree at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in Natural Sciences, specialising in Theoretical Physics. In 1985 he started studying for his doctorate at the University of Sussex, supervised by John D. Barrow, and completed his DPhil thesis in 1988. Coles advises LGBT scientists not to worry excess ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Britton
Thomas Benjamin Britton (born 18 April 1985) is a materials scientist and engineer based at The University of British Columbia. He is a specialist in micromechanics, electron microscopy and crystal plasticity. In 2014 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), a society of which he then became a Fellow in 2016. @BMatB Early life and education Britton grew up in Oxford and attended Magdalen College School, Oxford. He graduated with a Master of Engineering (MEng) in materials science from the Department of Materials, University of Oxford in 2007 where he was a student of St Catherine's College, Oxford. In 2010, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy degree in materials science, specifically for an electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) study of titanium and its alloys supervised by Angus Wilkinson. Research and career After completing his PhD, Britton spent two years in Oxford as a postdoctoral research associate studying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Bond
Alexander L. Bond is a Canadian conservation biologist, ecologist, and curator. He is a senior curator at the Natural History Museum at Tring. Education Bond completed a B.Sc. with honors in biology from Mount Allison University in 2005 and published a thesis titled Daytime spring migrations of scoters ('' Melanitta'' spp.) in the Bay of Fundy. He earned an M.Sc. from University of New Brunswick in 2007. His thesis was entitled ''Patterns of mercury burden in the seabird community of Machias Seal Island, New Brunswick''. Bond completed a Ph.D. in 2011 at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His thesis there was called ''Relationships between oceanography and the demography & foraging of auklets (Charadriiformes, Alcidae: ''Aethia''; Merrem 1788) in the Aleutian Islands''. He was a NSERC Visiting Fellow in Government Laboratories, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada from 2013 – 2014 and a NSERC post-doctoral fellow at the University of Saskatchewan from 2011 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cynthia Bauerle
Cynthia M. Bauerle is an American molecular biologist and college administrator. They are currently the interim vice provost for Faculty and Curriculum at James Madison University. Early life and education Bauerle is from Charlottesville, Virginia. They completed a B.A. in biology at University of Virginia in 1984 and a Ph.D. in molecular biology at University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1990. Bauerle was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Oregon where they researched molecular biology. They were a Fulbright scholar at University of Dar es Salaam from 1999 to 2000. Career Bauerle, a molecular biologist, was a professor of biology and women's studies at Hamline University for 12 years before joining Spelman College where they were a professor and department chair of biology. Bauerle moved to Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) for seven years as a senior program officer and later, the assistant director of Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education. They were also the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clara Barker
Clara Michelle Barker is a British engineer and material scientist. In 2017 she received the Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister's Office for her volunteer work raising awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues. The outcome of this was her rise as a significant role model to the LGBT+ community. Career and research Barker completed her thesis on thin film coating at Manchester Metropolitan University. She then held a post-doctoral position at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA) in Switzerland for four years, before she moved to the University of Oxford, where she manages the Centre for Applied Superconductivity within the Materials Department. She is currently a Daphne Jackson Trust research fellow and Dean for equality and diversity at Linacre College. She is a member of the Royal Society Diversity and Inclusion Committee. She was the vice-chair of the university's LGBT+ Advisory Group. In 2023, she was fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Adger
David Adger, (born 23 September 1967) is a Professor of Linguistics at Queen Mary University of London. Adger is interested in the human capacity for syntax. Adger served as president of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain from 2015 to 2020. Early life and education Adger was born on 23 September 1967 in Kirkcaldy, Fife, Scotland. At the age of eleven Adger became fascinated by language, reading Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea. At the age of sixteen, Adger won a school competition coordinated by the University of St Andrews and spent the money on copies of Noam Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax. He studied linguistics and artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh. Adger has described his undergraduate teaching as one of the "exhilarating experiences of my life". He remained in Edinburgh for his graduate studies, working toward a master's in cognitive science. He completed a doctorate under the supervision of Elisabet Engdahl in 1994. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walt Westman
Walter Emil Westman (5 November 1945 - 3 January 1991) was an American ecologist, researcher, and activist. He founded the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) in 1980. Early life and education Walter Emil was born to the Wieselmann family in 1945. The family changed their name to Westman in late 1949 when they moved to Puerto Rico, hoping to avoid antisemitism. He attended the Commonwealth School and excelled there. The family were forced to return to the US in 1955 when their glove factory failed. Westman attended Swarthmore College, obtaining a bachelor's degree in botany in 1966. He moved to Australia shortly after completing his first degree as the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship. He later received a master's degree from Macquarie University. He then returned to the US in order to complete his PhD at Cornell University under the supervision of Robert Whittaker, on the subject of pygmy forest ecosystems along the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Organization Of Gay And Lesbian Scientists And Technical Professionals
Out to Innovate, previously the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP), is a professional society for professionals in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Each year, Out to Innovate gives the Walt Westmann Award to members who made significant addition to the association. History The organization was organized along the lines of earlier organizations of gay scientists in Los Angeles and the Research Triangle area of North Carolina, and arose out of a session at the 1980 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting. It was formally organized in 1983 and incorporated in California in 1991. The foundation of the organization was in response to issues such as gay scientists not being able to get visas to immigrate to the United States or security clearances to work in government laboratories, the lack of research on LGBT health issues, and loss of productivity due to the stress of stigmatization. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
