Please join us for “Women Scientists Saving the Earth,” an informative and engaging discussion of women in the history of the natural sciences in celebration of Earth Day 2025 on Tuesday, Apr. 22 in Building 2N, Room104 at 2:30pm.
Women scientists have long played a vital role in studying, documenting, and advocating for the natural world, and the study of nature has long been an entry point for women even in historical eras when science was a more male-dominated field than it is today. Historians Dr. John Dixon and Dr. Catherine Lavender will discuss the work of Jane Colden, a field researcher in the Enlightenment often recognized as this country’s first woman botanist, and Rachel Carson, a marine biologist and ecologist whose 1960s books The Sea around Us and Silent Spring raised alarms about the threats to the natural world that prompted legislation to protect it. This CC CLUE event is co-sponsored by the Bertha Harris Women’s Center; the Program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and the Department of History.
By the Division of Academic Affairs
