Marianna Tax Choldin began as a professor of Library Administration at the University of Illinois in 1969 and remains an adjunct professor for the School of Information Sciences today. In 1991, she became the founding director of the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs. In her time at Illinois, she also served as head of the Slavic and East European Library from 1982-89 and...
Mary-Elizabeth Hamstrom began in the Mathematics department in 1961. She was promoted to Professor in 1966; 1 of 4 female full professors in College of LAS. She was an authority in point-set and geometric topology with special interest in spaces of homeomorphisms of manifolds. Women featured in our weekly series are part of the 150 for 150 website Celebrating the Accomplishments of Women at...
We have Nancy Goodman Brinker for today's Women in History Wednesday. Nancy Goodman Brinker graduated in 1968 with a degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is the founder and Chair of Global Strategy for the Susan G. Komen Foundation, an organization named for her sister who passed away from breast cancer in 1980. Nancy is also a survivor of breast cancer. She was...
For this Women In History Wednesday, we have Nancy M. O’Fallon Dowdy! She graduated with a Master of Science in 1961 in Nuclear Engineering and received her PhD in Physics in 1966. She was instrumental in nuclear disarmament dialogues after the Cold War. She served as Assistant Vice President for Research at the University of Chicago; representative to the START delegation for the...
Nicole Hollander graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1960 and is known for her daily comic strip titled Sylvia. She is also known for her graphic design work in the feminist publication, The Spokeswoman, where she had the opportunity to transform the newsletter into a monthly magazine. She also created a comic strip called The Feminist Funnies, which was...
Happy Women in History Wednesday! Nina Baym joined the English Department’s faculty in the 1960s and remained a professor for over 40 years. Nina helped expand the field of American literature to include women writers. She was named a Swanlund Endowed Chair, a Jubilee Professor in the College of LAS, and a Center for Advanced Study Professor of English. She has also held several positions outside...
For this week's Women in History, we have Patsy Parker. She graduated from the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences in 1968. During her junior year in the spring semester of 1967, she became the first female to be elected student body president at the University of Illinois. Women featured in our weekly series are part of the 150 for 150 website Celebrating the Accomplishments of Women at...
This Women in History Wednesday we celebrate UIUC alumna Justice Rita B. Garman. Rita B. Garman graduated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1965. While a student, she graduated with highest honors and was also a Bronze Tablet graduate. She is now the current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Illinois. Women featured in our weekly series are part of the 150 for...
Happy Women in History Wednesday! Today we honor Annette Lu Hsiu-lien, an advocate for democracy in Taiwan imprisoned for over five years for speaking out against the government. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a degree in Law in 1971. She established herself as a feminist advocate in Taiwan through her writing, including a book titled New Feminism. Read more about Annette...
Happy Women in History Wednesday! Today we celebrate Mary Temple Grandin! Mary graduated with a PhD from the College of ACES in 1989. Mary is a well-known professor of animal sciences, but she is best known for being one of the first individuals on the autism spectrum to speak out about her experience with autism. In 2010, Mary was named one of Time Magazine’s most influential people in the world...