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The Importance of Transdisciplinarity to Address Synergies and Trade-offs


August 3, 2021

The world is a complex network of relationships shaped by forces that sometimes contrast and other times reinforce each other. This understanding is at the core of the One Health approach: studying and understanding the world in general and ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, Work & Life
Tags: Circular Health, Citizen Science, Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinarity, One Health, Sustainable Development Goals, Transdisciplinarity

S.H.E. IS: Christine de Pizan, An Early Feminist at the End of the Middle Age


May 20, 2020

Christine de Pizan (1364 – 1430) is known as “the first woman who was able to support herself and her family as a writer.” At age 15, she married Etienne de Castel who sadly died a decade later. After his death, she was left with three ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, Work & Life
Tags: Christine De Pizan, Feminism, International Women's Day, Middle Age, The City Of Ladies

S.H.E. IS: Maria Goeppert Mayer, “I wasn’t going to be just a woman”


May 14, 2020

Maria Goeppert Mayer (B. 1906 – D. 1972) was the second women in history to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics. Marie Curie was the first women to win this award. Maria won in collaboration with Hans D. Jensen in 1963 for their research ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, Work & Life
Tags: Feminism, Girls In Stem, International Women's Day, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Women, Women In Science

S.H.E. IS: Mary Guinan, A Medical Detective inspiring COVID-19 Healthcare Workers


April 20, 2020

Dr. Mary Guinan (B. 1939) describes herself as one of many medical detectives who worked hard to combat the Smallpox, Ebola, and AIDS epidemics. She traveled around the world into hotspots of medical crises risking her own health to try and ... READ MORE

Category: Professional Development, Work & Life
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Healthcare Workers, Mary Guinan, Medical Detective

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