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Women in History Spotlight: Barbara "Bobbie" Crawford Johnson

Barbara “Bobbie” Crawford Johnson, the first woman to graduate with a degree in General Engineering from UIUC in 1946, worked on Apollo missions at North American Aviation, later Rockwell International. NASA honored her in 1973, and UIUC named her a Distinguished Alumni in 1975, the first woman to receive this award. She also won the Dick Brouwer Award in 1978 for her contributions to space flight mechanics and astrodynamics.

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Alumni Spotlight: Katherine Roth

Katherine Roth is a Contributing Writer for The Associated Press.    Katherine received her MA in Journalism and Middle East Studies along with the GRID Minor in 1989.    She will be participating in the upcoming WGGP 40th Anniversary Symposium on March 4, 2021 with her talk entitled, "Global Perspectives: Things aren’t always what they seem”