Women in Science
She founded important research about and treatments using radioactivity and is the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize.
Madame (Marie) Curie
She was a prolific mathematician, writer, and is considered the first computer programmer.
Ada Lovelace
She was a Victorian nurse and icon of healthcare, often referred to as the Lady with the Lamp.
Florence Nightingale
She was a Mexican painter known for her self portraits, natural iconography, and thick eyebrows.
She is a Project Owner in Tallahassee, Florida who specializes in AI. She also has a BA in Editing, Writing, and Media, Masters of Science Information, and was a member of FSU's STARS Alliance, a K-12 STEM outreach organization.
Danielle Evans
She is the first African-American woman in space.
Mae Jemison
She was the first African-American supervisor at NASA known for her work with programming language.
Dorothy Vaughan
She was an English-American social reformer and advocate for the education of women in medicine. She was also the first woman to earn a medical degree in the US.
Elizabeth Blackwell
She is a Pakistani activist, writer, and producer whose works defined the 2010's.
Malala Yousafzai
She graduated in 2025 with a degree in Biology and minor in Business. She also shadowed the bone marrow registry she now works with during undergrad.
Valerie Escobar
She was a landmark anthropologist and primatologist who passed away earlier this year.
Jane Goodall
She was a pioneer of computer programing and created COBOL, an early programming language that is still used today.
Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper
In addition to her women's rights advocacy, she was the first female US Army Surgeon during the Civil War.
Mary Edwards Walker
She was an abstract painter (most famous for her depictions of flowers and natural landscapes) who received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977.
Georgia O'Keeffe
She graduated from the College of Motion Picture Arts in 2003 and worked on the 2016 Academy Award winning movie "Moonlight."
Barry Jenkins
She was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom for her mathematical genius on NASA's space missions, including Alan Shepard and John Glenn's flights.
Katherine Johnson
She was an actress and self-taught inventor whose frequency hopping system inspired modern day WiFi.
Hedy Lamar
She was the first African-American woman to receive a medical patent for community ophthalmology. Today, her discipline provides eye care to under-served populations around the world.
Patricia Bath
Yayoi Kusama
She is the founder of Spanx, a billion dollar apparel company, that she started as a Communication Studies student.
She was the first female professor in Stanford's Biology department in 1972, as well as the first native Hawaiian woman to receive a PhD in science.
She is considered the mother of the internet and invented the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
Radia Perlman
She is the first woman and person of Hispanic (Puerto Rican) heritage to serve as the US Surgeon General. She prioritizes AIDS awareness, health care access to minority groups, and anti-smoking campaigns for youth.
Antonia Novello
She was a prominent author and abolitionist in the late 1700's. Despite writing the best selling novel of the time, "Charlotte Temple," that had over 200 editions, she received no money from her novel.
Susanna Rowson
She is the first female mayor of Jacksonville, Florida who graduated with a degree in Communications. She began her career as an anchor for WTXL-TV.
Donna Deegan