Chandrima Shaha and the 30 other elected members will take charge of their office from January 1, 2020. She is not only the first woman president of the INSA, but she was also the Vice-captain of West Bengal’s first women’s cricket team and the first woman cricket commentator for the All India Radio.
On February 11, we celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Although only 14% of researchers in India are women, these days more and more women are coming out and opting for Science as their mainstream subject. However, since the days of yore, India has been a proud contributor in Science, the country […]
Girls who are more confident in their math skills are more likely to pursue math-intensive degrees, writes Lara Perez-Felkner, Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Sociology, Florida State University. The gender gap in math and science isn’t going away. Women remain less likely to enroll in math-heavy fields of study and pursue math-heavy careers. This […]
Indo-American scientist Ritu Raman is among the five distinguished recipients of the L’Oreal USA Women in Science Fellowship 2017. Born in India, the 26-year-old is a post-doctoral fellow in Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The L’Oreal fellowship awards its women fellows with a whopping grant of $60,000 to accelerate their […]
An Indian-American teenager, Indrani Das, has bagged the top prize at America’s oldest and the most prestigious science competitions in the world – the Regeneron Science Talent Search Competition.
Jeanette Epps will be the first Black American astronaut to work at the International Space Station in 2018. NASA on Wednesday assigned African-American astronaut Epps on missions to fly to the ISS as a crew member.
Hypertension, or High Blood Pressure is a medical condition that leads to many other health problems like heart disease, kidney problems and stroke. Hypertension is the most prevalent chronic disease in India according to cadiresearch.org. There are several reasons for developing this medical condition, and one of them is stress. In today’s dog eat dog […]
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