Google Arts & Culture is presenting exhibits on inventors and discoverers for online viewing. Five specific exhibits have been developed to present women inventors and discoverers: science, medicine, engineering, health and beauty, and household.
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Only twelve artists have achieved the entertainer’s equivalent of ‘horsedom’s’ Triple Crown – EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards) and four of them are women. The four are Rita Moreno, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, and Whoopi Goldberg. In this month’s enewsletter we learn more about Helen Hayes and Whoopi Goldberg.
A series of exhibits on inventors and discoverers was recently put together for Google Arts and Culture. These exhibits featured women inventors and discoverers in medicine, science, engineering, health and beauty, and the household. In this month’s ENewsletter we feature two of the women who were included in the household inventors and discoverers exhibit: Sarah Goode and Josephine Cochran. Let’s learn about these two innovative women.
In October 2017, the University of Virginia announced the hiring of the first African-American woman every brought in as an Athletic Director at one of the 64 power five conference schools. As the hiring of Carla Williams indicates, women are involved in sports as athletes as well as in other positions.
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Tracy K. Smith, the new poet laureate of the U.S., assumed her one-year term of office in September 2017. She stands on the shoulders of other women who have filled that office and the predecessor office. These women include Gwendolyn Brooks who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985-1986 and Rita Dove who served as Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and later also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant. Let’s learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.
National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., contains statues – two from each state. Of that total, nine are women.
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