Early Life
Where did she get her bachelors degree?
Howard University
She was the first black woman to get her degree in?
Zoology
After her exam her partner/mentor did what?
Resented her for failing.
What minority was she apart of?
She was African American, and a woman
How did her studies help?
They figured out how cancer radiation effects cells
Why did Just promote Young super quickly after she received her masters?
He needed help balancing his work.
She became the first black woman to conduct what?
Research at a world renowned Marine Biology Laboratory.
When did she get her doctorate?
1940
A week before she left for Europe she had to take her doctoring exam, did she pass or fail?
She failed.
How many experiments did she preform on sea urchin eggs?
12
What did Just call Young in a letter he wrote about her?
Incompetent and no help
How many scientific articles did she publish from 1935-1938?
4
What two things did she have to do at the same time?
Run the zoology department, and have an assistant professorship position.
When Young took her exam what challenge did she face?
Her professor believed black people were genetically inferior to white people.
Her experiments at Woods Hole tested what?
Ultraviolet radiation on Marine eggs.
How did she initially become interested in zoology?
She took a general zoology course in college.
She became what while teaching at Howards University?
Head of the zoology department.
Who did she first study under at Howard University?
Dr. Ernest Everest
What personal struggle did she go through in 1953?
Her mother's death
What did she discover?
A water-dwelling single celled organism.
What did she originally go to college for?
Music
She received her doctorate from where?
The University of Pennsylvania.
Where did she lecture at in the 1960's before she died?
Southern University
What did she do in the late 1950's?
She committed herself to the Mississippi State Mental Asylum
What exactly did she discover through her experiments on sea urchin eggs?
When sea urchin eggs are exposed to roentgen rays in the presence of ovarian tissue, the effect of the radiation is more pronounced than when the eggs alone are irradiated.