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Women in STEM: Welcome

women in STEM

Welcome to Duquesne University's Women in STEM guide. This guide features the many women at Duquesne and elsewhere who are making (or have made)

a difference in the STEM fields. Know someone who should be featured on this guide? Email me and let me know so I can add her!

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This guide profiles many women in STEM fields, including Ruby Hirose, Marie Maynard Daly, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, and Lise Meitner.

public domain images: Hirose; Daly; Hamilton; Johnson; Meitner

find books and articles

Gumberg Library has lots of resources for learning more about women's contributions to STEM fields.

To find print books, click the following links:

Women scientists

Women scientists -- History

Women in science

Women in engineering

Women in technology

Women in mathematics

Women computer programmers

Women inventors

Women computer scientists

Prefer e-books?

  • Search DUQSearch and limit the source type to eBooks.

Looking for journal articles?

  • Search DUQSearch and limit the source type to Academic Journals.

 

  • You can also click on the following links:

"Women in science" in GreenFILE

Women AND engineer* in Academic Search Elite

Women AND (computer science OR computer program*) in Academic Search Elite

  •  Or, search in individual databases:

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This work by Rebekah Miller is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial license; CC BY-NC 4.0 

selected books at Gumberg

Click on each book to see details.

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