STEM – Science – Biology
Clifford Wayne Houston (1949- )
Clifford Wayne Houston is a nationally recognized microbiologist and became the first African American president of the American Society of...
Gilda Barabino (1956- )
Gilda Barabino, a biomedical engineer and world-renowned sickle cell researcher, is the first African American and woman president of Olin...
Edwin Lowell Cooper (1936- )
Edwin L. Cooper, an internationally-recognized biologist and immunologist, is credited as the founder of comparative immunology. Cooper was born on...
Evelyn Carmon Nicol (1930-2020)
On May 27, 2020 Evelyn Carmon Nicol, a pioneer in microbiology and immunology, died from complications of COVID-19, the coronavirus....
Lynika Sharlice Strozier (1984-2020)
Lynika Strozier was a researcher, scientist and instructor. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama on August 28, 1984. At six...
Mary Logan Reddick (1914-1966)
Mary Logan Reddick was a neuroembryologist, and the first female biology instructor at Morehouse College. Reddick was born on December...
Sheila Minor Huff (1947- )
Hidden in the midst of a photograph of mostly male, white attendees at the 1971 International Conference on the Biology...
Jewel Plummer Cobb (1924- )
Jewel Plumber Cobb, a cell biologist and cancer researcher, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on January 17, 1924, to Frank...
Samuel Milton Nabrit (1905-2003)
A marine biologist, academic, and administrator, Samuel Milton Nabrit was born in Macon, Georgia, to James Madison Nabrit and Gertrude...
