Bernice Ackerman (1925-1995) was an American meteorologist. In 1965 she got a Doctor of Philosophy in geophysical science from the University of Chicago. She was the first woman weathercaster in the United States. She was the first woman meteorologist at Argonne National Laboratory. She worked at the U.S. Weather Bureau, the University of Chicago, Texas A&M University and Argonne National Laboratory. Before college, Ackerman was a weather observer for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) in World War II.
E. Ruth Anderson
Elsie Ruth Anderson (born: 23 Jun 1907 in Newport, Rhode Island; died: 24 November 1989 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American meteorologist and book writer. Anderson studied at the New England Conservatory of Music from 1924 to 1931, 1934, and 1940 to 1941. She got a diploma from the New England Conservatory in "Orchestral Course in Violin" in June 1931.
In World War II, she joined the WAVES. She studied at the Navy Aerographers School. She then worked for the American Meteorological Society for 20 years.
Jacqueline Wonsetler
F. Jacqueline Wonsetler (Born:13 June 1918; Died:1 December 1974) was an American meteorologist. She got the "Department of Commerce Outstanding Accomplishment Award for work in the development of service and briefing methods for transcontinental air races." She worked for the Weather Service Office for 29 years.
Madge Adam
Madge Gertrude Adam (Born: March 6, 1912; Died: August 25, 2001) was an English solar astronomer. She was "internationally known for her work on the nature of sunspots and on their magnetic fields." She worked at the University of Oxford in the Department of Astrophysics from 1937-1979. She was a member of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Nancy Adams
Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams (Born: 19 May 1926; Died: 27 March 2007) was a New Zealand botanist. She studied zoology and botany at Wellington Girls’ College and Victoria University of Wellington. Her detailed and delicate algae illustrations got international attention. Her awards include the Loder Cup in 1964, the Queen's Service Order and the Commemoration Medal.
Anna Stout
Anna Paterson Stout "née" Logan (29 September 1858 - 10 May 1931) was a social reformer in New Zealand.
The Girls' Provincial School let Anna study at age 12. After completing her schooling she returned home to Dunedin. She married Robert Stout at age 18. In 1885 she helped form the Women's Christian Temperance Union. In 1892 she became President of the Women's Franchise League. In 1896 the National Council of Women of New Zealand chose her as Vice President.
Stout was also active in England for acceptance for women to vote. She worked closely with the Women's Social and Political Union.
Ada Wells
Ada Wells "née" Pike (29 April 1863 – 22 March 1933) was a feminist and social worker in New Zealand.
Wells worked as a student-teacher and attended Canterbury College. In the 1880s she became active in the women's suffrage movement. In 1892 she formed the Canterbury Women's Institute. She also helped form the National Council of Women of New Zealand. In 1917 she was the first woman to work on the Christchurch City Council. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage now offers an Ada Wells Memorial Prize for Undergraduate Students.
Najib Ullah
Najib Ullah (February 14, 1914 to August 2, 1965) was an Afghan writer and ambassador.
Ullah worked for the Foreign Office of Afghanistan for many years. He was also a representative to India, England and the United States. He worked as the Head of the Afghan group at UNESCO General Assembly in Beirut, Lebanon in 1948.
Awista Ayub
Awista Ayub (c. 1979) is an Afghan writer. She formed the Afghan Youth Sports Exchange in the United States.
In her novel "Kabul Girls Soccer Club", first called "However Tall the Mountain", Ayub writes of eight girls brought to the US to learn soccer.
The Afghan Youth Sports Exchange has grown from the first 8 young women to hundreds playing through the Afghanistan Football Federation.
Masood Farivar
Masood Farivar (born 1969) is an Afghan-born writer, journalist and author of "Confessions of a Mullah Warrior" (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009), which describes two teenage years while a member of the anti-Soviet Mujahideen resistance movement. Since early 2017, he has been the Voice of America (VOA) justice correspondent.
Farivar moved with his family to Pakistan in 1983. He obtained a degree from Harvard University in 1994 and subsequently worked as a business reporter for Dow Jones Newswires. According to his LinkedIn resume, as of 2013 he was Chief of the Afghanistan Service at VOA and based in Washington, D.C. Previously he was with Internews Network and spent the 2011-2012 academic year as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University.
Matthew Shepard
Matthew Wayne Shepard (December 1, 1976 – October 12, 1998) was an American college student who was murdered while attending the University of Wyoming. At the trial for the two attackers, the men were accused of targeting Shepard because he was gay.
On October 7, 1998, Shepard met two people named Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney at the Fireside Lounge. McKinney and Henderson decided that they would give Shepard a ride home. They drove the car to a remote, rural area, then robbed and tortured Shepard, beating him with a pistol. They tied him to a fence post and left him there to die. They also found out where Shepard lived and they planned to burglarize his house. Shepard was found by a cyclist named Aaron Kreifels, who thought Shepard was a scarecrow at first. Shepard was in a coma and suffered fractures to the back of his head and the front of his right ear. He had severe damage to his brain stem, a part of the brain which controls the body's heart rate, body temperature, and other important functions. He died at 12:53 a.m. on October 12, 1998.
A hate crimes law named the Matthew Shepard Act was first introduced on March 20, 2007. The bill passed the House of Representatives and the Senate but then-president George W. Bush said that he would veto the legislation if it had reached his desk. As a result, the legislation was dropped. It was again brought up on April 2, 2009. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr Hate Crimes Prevention Act was passed by President Barack Obama on October 28, 2009.
Green River, Wyoming
Green River is an American city in the state of Wyoming. It is in Sweetwater County where it is the county seat. The city has about 11,808 people. The city was started in 1868 in what used to be the Dakota Territory. Every year, a festival is held there called the Flaming Gorge Days where acts will perform music. Acts like Poison and REO Speedwagon have played there.
The Flaming Gorge Days is a festival.
Walter Rudolf Hess
Walter Rudolf Hess (17 March 1881 – 12 August 1973) was a Swiss physiologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1949 for "locating the areas of the brain involved in the control of internal organs". The prize was shared with Egas Moniz. Hess was born on 17 March 1881 in Frauenfeld, Switzerland and died on 12 August 1973 in Locarno, Switzerland.
By stimulating the hypothalamus of cats with tiny electric currents, Hess induced behaviours. The behaviours ranged from excitement to apathy, depending on the position of the stimulation. He could induce different types of responses in the anterior (lateral) hypothalamus compared to stimulating the posterior ventromedial hypothalamus. When stimulating the anterior part, he could induce fall of blood pressure, slowing of breathing and responses such as wanting food, wanting water, needing to pee and needing to poop. On the other hand, stimulation of the posterior part led to extreme excitement and defensive behaviour.
Hess also found that he could induce sleep in cats – a finding that was highly controversial at the time but later confirmed. His work was important step in scientist's understanding of neurosecretion.
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