Dr Ada Cheung
Associate Professor Ada Cheung is a renowned endocrinologist who is a global leader in transgender health.
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Elizabeth M Conard
Abortion rights advocate who helped start the Charlotte Planned Parenthood chapter
Margaret A Thone
Yellowstone National Park Park Ranger, 1924-1925
Dr Kazue Togasaki
Dr. Kazue Togasaki was one of the first Japanese American women to become a doctor in the United States.
Floy Agnes Lee
Lee’s biology research at the university led her to be recruited to work in the hematology lab for the Manhattan Project in 1945.
Lilli Hornig
As with so many of the scientists who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project, Lilli Schwenk Hornig (1921-2017) had fled her homeland to escape persecution.
Dr Loy McAfee
Dr. Loy McAfee served as a contract surgeon with the surgeon general’s office of the U.S. Army during World War I.
Dr Maude Abbott
In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.
Dr Susan Howard
In 1902, Dr. Susan Howard was the first woman physician practicing in Burlington, Vermont.
Dr Ida Sophia Scudder
In 1902, Dr. Ida Sophia Scudder founded the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore, India.