Category Archives: The Race For Paris

February 23, 2017

Nathalia Holt, NPR Chat About the Role of Women in Rocket Science

By bicadmin | Published: February 23, 2017

Nathalia Holt spoke with NPR’s Ari Shapiro and one of the original “rocket girls,” Barbara Paulson, about women’s role in shaping the American space project. Nathalia’s book The Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles to the Moon to Mars, is a collective biography of a group of women who “did the math” at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1940s.

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January 31, 2017

James E. Mills Highlights Another Racial Disparity — Minority Outdoor Adventurers

By bicadmin | Published: January 31, 2017

Adventurer and journalist James Edward Mills highlights another racial disparity: the low number of minority wilderness adventurers. This concern carries the opportunity to stimulate healthy conversation about race and gender disparity in our schools and communities.

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Also posted in Andrew Maraniss, Daniel Bergner, James Edward Mills, LitBits, Meg Waite Clayton, Sing for Your Life: A Story of Race, Strong Inside, The Adventure Gap | Tagged Adventure, All Campus Reads, BlackHistory, Equity, Outdoor, Race, Race Relations, Recreation, Social, The Adventure Gap | Comments closed

December 8, 2015

Celebrate Women’s History Month!

By bicadmin | Published: December 8, 2015

It’s not too late to schedule a fabulous speaker for Women’s History Month celebrations in March 2016, a month devoted to recognizing, honoring, and celebrating achievements of American women. March 2016 is a time to stop and reflect on how women’s roles have changed; to share stories of what was, what is, and what is yet to come; and to invite readers of all ages and sexes to learn about and celebrate how U.S. culture has impacted and been changed by women, evolving over the centuries.

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