Life Sciences

Life Sciences 

Botany

• First Women Botanists at Berkeley

Sheila M. Humphreys, Director Emerita of Diversity, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Co-Chair 150w History Project.

Biology

• Beth Burnside, Professor of Physiology and Anatomy, Division Biology, Interview. Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s, Interviews conducted 2019-2021
• Marvalee Wake, Professor of Biology/Zoology, Division of Biology, Interview. Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, Academic Pioneers. Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s, Interviews conducted 2019-2021

Zoology

• Early Women PhDs in Zoology at UC, 1902-1927

Sheila M. Humphreys, Director Emerita of Diversity, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Co-Chair 150w History Project

• Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Women Pioneers in Science and Math at Berkeley: An Overview

Sheila M. Humphreys, Director Emerita of Diversity, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley, Co-Chair 150w History Project

Astronomy

• Celestial Observers: The First Sixteen Berkeley Women Doctoral Graduates in Astronomy (1913-1952)

Sheila M. Humphreys, Director Emerita of Diversity, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley, Co-Chair 150w History Project

Chemistry

• 150 years and counting: Co-education and the College of Chemistry Marge d’Wylde, Director of Marketing and Communications, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley. Catalyst Magazine, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 2018
• Berkeley’s First Women Chemists

Marge d’Wylde, Director of Marketing and Communications, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley. Catalyst Magazine, College of Chemistry, UC Berkeley, 2018

• Honor Among Fiends: UC’s Role in the Founding of Iota Sigma Pi

Kathryn M. Neal, University Archivist, Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Bancroftiana, Fall 2011

• Judith Klinman, Professor of Chemistry Interview. Paula Fass and Christina Maslach, Academic Pioneers: Women at Berkeley in the 1970s and 1980s, Interviews conducted 2019-2021.

Earth and Planetary Science (formerly Geology)

• Women of Earth and Planetary Science

Michael Manga, Compiler, Professor of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley

Mathematics

• Women Mathematicians at Berkeley--The Early Years. Association of Women in Mathematics Newsletter, 36 (4), 2006

Calvin C. Moore, Professor Emeritus, Mathematics Department, UC Berkeley

• Narratives of UC Berkeley Women Mathematicians

Department staff; Tera Neff, 150w research assistant; Assistant Dean Maria L. Hjelm, and Sheila Humphreys, Emerita Dir. of Diversity, EECS, Co-Chair 150W History Project

• Tenured Women at Berkeley Before 1980

Revision of article first published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 69 (March 2022) Copyright AMS

Cathy Kessel, Ph.D., Past President Association of Women in Mathematics

Physics

• One Hundred Years of Women at Berkeley Physics

Sarah Wittmer, Visual Communications Specialist, with help from Claudia Trujillo, Maria Hjelm, and Frances Hellman, Professors of Physics, UC Berkeley

• Physicist Melba N. Phillips: Indiana’s Oppenheimer Connection

Jill Weiss Simins, Historian, Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana History Blog

• Melba Phillips: Leader in Science and Conscience

Jill Weiss Simins, Historian, Indiana Historical Bureau, Indiana History Blog

Statistics (2023 in the College of Computing, Data Science and Society (CDSS)

• 150 Years of Women in Statistics

Sandrine Dudoit, Compiler, Professor of Statistics, UC Berkeley with Amanda Glazer and Lauren Pitcher

• Betty Scott: Professor Pioneered Using Statistics to Address Bias in University Hiring

Jon Bashor, Science Writer, UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science and Society

• The Inimitable F. N. David: A Renaissance Statistician,

Amanda L. Golbeck, Professor of Biostatistics Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. and Craig A. Molgaard, Professor of Public Health, the Fay W. Bozman College of Public Health at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Notices of the American Mathematics Society, March 2021

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