“I found that beets changed color at the perfect pH point,” says Taylor. Bright red beet juice turns dark purple at a pH of nine. “That's perfect for an infected wound. And so, I was like, ‘Oh, okay. So beets is where it's at.’”
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“He’s not just a student in the engineering program; he’s a high-performing student in the engineering program."
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Hattie Scott Peterson is believed to be the first Black woman to earn a bachelor's degree in civil engineering.
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“We do see a lot of police departments adopting powerful new surveillance and other technology without telling, let alone asking, the communities they serve."
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Dr. Edray Herber Goins is one of only three Black people to earn a Ph.D. in math from Stanford University. He is currently a professor of mathematics at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
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Dr. Etta Z. Falconer (student of Dr. Evelyn Boyd Granville) created the Departments of Computer Science and Chemistry at Spelman College.
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"Knowing that I hail from brilliant, strong, beautiful people provides a source of strength. It is hard to not be proud of that legacy."
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Dr. William Warrick Cardozo was a physician and pediatrician who pioneered research on sickle cell anemia.
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Lisa Perez Jackson is the first Black person to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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Mr. Hamilton Hatter was an inventor, educator, and the first president of Bluefield Colored Institute (now Bluefield State College).
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Dr. Freeman Hrabowski has served as the president of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) since 1992.
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“Most of the astronomers at the planetarium...thought that was nonsense, that astronomy is done with ground-based telescopes, and you shouldn’t waste your time thinking about going into space.”
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Dr. George Carruthers' UV telescope/spectrograph and image converter invention provided the first proof of the existence of molecular hydrogen in interstellar space.
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"Imposter syndrome directs our view toward fixing women at work instead of fixing the places where women work."
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