DEI Education
Below are resources to expand your diversity, equity, and inclusion education and awareness. Many of these can be incorporated into the classroom.
1. Anti-Racism Resource List for STEM Communities (#STEMforBLM)
2. C&EN 9 Black chemists you should know about
3. US Top Govt Scientist Willie E May
4. The Representation of People of Color in Undergraduate General Chemistry Textbooks
5. C&EN The leaky pipeline for Black academic chemists
Books
1. African American Women Chemists
3. Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World
4. Nobel Prize Women in Science: Their Lives, Struggles, and Momentous Discoveries
5. Women in Science: Antiquity through the Nineteenth Century
Marie Maynard Daly, biochemist, 1st African-American woman to earn PhD in Chemistry
Lise Meitner, physicist, nuclear fission
Gerty Cori, biochemist, 3rd woman to earn Nobel Prize inscience & 1st woman to earn Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Dorothy Hodgkin, X-ray crystallographer, 3rd woman to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Chien-Shiung Wu, physicist, worked on the Manhattan Project
Gertrude Elion, biochemist, pharmacologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Jane Cooke Wright, cancer researcher, surgeon
Anna Jane Harrison, organic chemist, educator, 1st female president of American Chemical Society
Ada Yonath, crystallographer
Edith Flanigen, inorganic chemist, inventor, awarded National Medal of Technology
Betty Harris, explosives detection
Lloyd Hall, food preservation, inventor
Gladys Royal, biochemistry
Paula T. Hammond, biomaterials, drug delivery
Emmett Chappelle, medicine, food chemistry, astrochemistry
Percy Julian, medicinal chemistry
Jane Cooke Wright, cancer research, chemotherapy
Annie Easley, computer science, math, rocket science
Shirley Ann Jackson, physics
Henry Aaron Hill, 1st Black president of ACS
Lloyd Quarterman, worked on the Manhattan project
James Andrew Harris, nuclear chemist
Josephine Silone Yates, chemistry education, first Black woman to head a college science dept