Basic STEM
The SI unit of energy.
What is the joule?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and discovered radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This African American astronaut was the first Black woman in space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
This lesbian astronaut flew on multiple NASA missions and advocated for LGBTQ+ inclusion.
Who is Sally Ride?
This term refers to giving people the specific support they need to succeed (not just equal treatment).
What is equity?
The main gas responsible for greenhouse effect.
What is carbon dioxide?
This scientist X-ray crystallography work was key to discovering DNA's structure.
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
Black NASA mathematicians featured in Hidden Figures.
Who is Dorothy Vaughan or Mary Jackson?
This computer scientist and WWII codebreaker is considered a father of modern computing.
Who is Alan Turing?
This describes when a workplace includes people from many backgrounds and perspectives.
What is diversity?
This law states that the current through a conductor is proportional to voltage and inversely proportional to resistance.
What is Ohm's law?
Primatologist know for studying chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
This Indian-American leader is the CEO of Google.
Who is Sundar Pichai?
This transgender physicist and advocate helped push for diversity in STEM and worked at Fermilab.
Who is Jess Wade?
Programs encouraging women and minorities in STEM to often called this (DEI).
What is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?
A matrix with equal rows and columns is called this.
What is a square matrix?
This mathematician helped calculate trajectories for early U.S. space missions.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
Who is Lewis Latimer?
This transgender neuroscientist was a strong advocate for inclusion in academia.
Who is Ben Barres?
Bias that occurs automatically and unconsciously is called this.
What is implicit bias?
This type of stress occurs when forces try to slide layers of materials past each other.
What is sheer stress?
First female computer programmer.
Who is Ada Lovelace.
This Chinese-American physicist made major contributions to nuclear physics and the Manhattan Project.
Who is Chien-Shiung Wu?
This astronomer discovered pulsars and later spoke about challenges women face in science.
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
This barrier refers to unseen obstacles that prevent marginalized groups from advancing.
What is the glass ceiling?