By Dr. Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine Wildfires in the western United States and Canada. Catastrophic flooding from extreme weather events in western Europe. California struggling for water access, while Louisiana and Texas losing electricity because of an unstable power grid and the frequency of hurricane impacts. What do all…

By Tanya Dapkey More than a year ago, 500 Women Scientists organized a series of webinars that focused on reproductive justice. The screenings were available for Pods all over the world, and many of us hosted screening parties. I decided to rewatch these webinars this month (July 2021) to honor…

By Laura Guertin, Penn State Brandywine Back in early January, a geoscience colleague of mine retweeted an announcement about a new program “to help geoscientists develop policies and programs meant to improve accessibility, justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.” …

Located on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is one of the top organizations across the globe recognized for excellence in ocean exploration, research, and education. One of the streets that winds through the WHOI campus was named Maury Lane in honor of Matthew Fontaine Maury, author…

A post in honor of World Poetry Day By Laura Guertin Amanda Gorman quickly became a household name after she read her poem “The Hill We Climb” at the January 20, 2021, inauguration of the 46th President of the United States of America. President Joseph R. Biden was only the…

November 2016 was a turning point for a lot of people, including me. I was naïve during the Obama years, blindly thinking America had turned a corner and decided to end racism, bigotry, and discrimination. …

By Laura Guertin The United Nations General Assembly established February 11 as an annual day for women and girls in science. As the UN Secretary-General António Guterres emphasizes in the video above, as a global community, females have yet to achieve full and equal access to and participation in…

By Saranya Anantapantula When I was in third grade, I learned about how much water we wasted at school. Naturally, I stuck a 5-minute hourglass shower timer to the wall to make myself use less water. My family began to use it as well, exclaiming about how they began spending…

The 500 Women Scientists Philly Pod went to Harrisburg, PA on November 18, 2019, and lobbied for a number of important issues. These one-pagers were given to our representatives outlining our recommendations. Climate change is already having negative impacts on communities throughout the United States.[1] We are running out of…