Dr Bernadette T Freeland-Hyde
Dr. Bernadette Freeland-Hyde has served the Salt River Maricopa Indian Community since 1999.
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Dr Emily Blackwell
With her sister Elizabeth Blackwell and their colleague Marie Zakrzewska, co-founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, the first hospital run by women and the first dedicated to serving women and children in the United States.
Alice Mary Bush
Important figure in the development of paediatrics in New Zealand
Dr Frances Colón
Neuroscientist who served as Deputy Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State during the Obama administration.
Dr Inez Fung
Atmospheric scientist and one of the world’s leading experts on climate and the carbon cycle – how carbon dioxide moves throughout the land, oceans, and the atmosphere – and how its movement both depends on and alters our planet’s climate.
Dr Jennifer Richeson
Social psychologist whose research has illuminated how identities – particularly racial identities – are formed and shaped through interactions with others.
Julie A Meachen
Vertebrate paleontologist and morphologist who studies mammalian carnivores and megafauna from the late Pleistocene period (10,000 years ago) to the present day.
Lenah Higbee
In January 1911, she became the second Superintendent of the Nurse Corps. For her achievements in leading the Corps through the First World War, Chief Nurse Higbee was awarded the Navy Cross, the first woman to receive that medal.
Charlotte Hill
Colorado fossil insects and plants collector in the 1880s
Margaret Cruickshank
On 3 May 1897 she became the first New Zealand woman to register as a doctor and subsequently to engage in general medical practice. For the rest of her life, apart from a year’s study overseas, Cruickshank worked in Waimate, where she was made a partner in the practice.