Celebrating Oberlin Women In Science And Medicine

Celebrating Oberlin Women in Science and Medicine

All this month, the Science Library is highlighting the lives, research and medical breakthroughs of Oberlin College affiliated women, with displays at the library’s entrance, social media posts, and photographs of notable women added to the portrait collection on the north wall. That small collection was male-dominated for decades - it was high time to represent the achievements of scientists and medical professionals who identify as female.

The recent additions to the portrait wall are June E. Osborn ‘57 (photo above), Joanne Chory ‘77 and Matilda Arabella Evans, who attended Oberlin in the late 1880s, leaving in 1891.

Thanks to Science Library Associate Jennifer Schreiner for creating the elements for the display on the bulletin board. We invite you to take a look! The display is summarized on the ObieSciLib Instragram post on March 8.

See also ObieSciLib on Tumblr for a look at the current Oberlin College women of science. Women in all of the natural science departments regularly publish research articles, numbering over 40 articles in the past four years alone. Books also have been published recently; see these authors in OBIS: Marta Laskowski, Jillian Scudder, and Lynne Bianchi. The tradition of scientific achievement and contributing to scientific knowledge continues.

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