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Following in the footsteps of notable black plant researchers and scientists like George Washington Carver and Percy Julian is no easy task, but Derek Haynes is more than up to the challenge. With a background in plant biology, and working in vaccine and therapeutics development using non-traditional plant-based technologies, Derek certainly practices what he preaches. Plants offer so much more than home decor, and Derek wants to show you how. He understands that the ancient and the modern don't need to compete, but rather can work together in harmony, offering viable solutions to pressing questions like food insecurity and mind-body-spirit holistic wellness.Merging together education, his signature wit and humour, and his keen love for plants and science, Derek's mission is to pull the traditional knowledge of our ancestors into the mainstream. Known affectionately as The Chocolate Botanist on Instagram, Derek has built a community of over 10K like-minded people, who have come to respect both his incredible depth of knowledge and the palpable joy he cultivates with the subject matter.His earnest passion has landed him features in The Guardian, Lifehacker, and has been a guest on renowned podcasts like Black in the Garden and In Defense of Plants. He has also worked with the North Carolina Botanical Gardens in developing educational workshops on botany and plant science. Through his dedicated commitment to fostering community and providing the necessary tools to expand knowledge, Derek is solidifying his place in the plant world—continuing to pave a new and sustainable path for the next generation of young, Black botanists. Derek's Website & Derek's Instagram Huge thanks to ILCA for providing a place to record at their iLandscape Conference!_________________________________________________________________________Patreon: http://patreon.com/TheMunicipalArboristInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_municipal_arborist/Questions or comments?themunicipalarborist@gmail.comThank you to our sponsors:Davey Resource GroupArbsessionWinkler Tree & Lawn Care

Welcome to the People of Interest Podcast. Segregation was one of many forms of systemic racism people of color faced in the United States. However, a number of brilliant minds still shone through the barriers placed on them by white lawmakers. Percy Julian, andAfrican American researcher, persisted under a segregated society and invented the process for turning parts of plants into pharmaceuticals. Listen in if you want to find out more about Percy Julian and the difficulties he faced from discriminatory American policies on his journey to becoming one of the greatest scientists in America. Sources: Science Library Institute (https://www.sciencehistory.org/historical-profile/percy-lavon-julian). People and Discoveries: Percy Julian (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/bmjuli.html). "Percy Lavon Julian: Pioneer of Medicinal Chemistry Synthesis" (https://academic.oup.com/labmed/article/41/11/688/2504925). Forgotten Genius (https://www.pbs.org/video/nova-forgotten-genius/). "Julian the Trailblazer" (https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/julian/civil.html). This podcast was recorded and edited by podcast producer Jamie Arpan Music: Title: Maple Leaf Rag (1899, Z. Brewster-Geisz version) Author: Scott Joplin / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/ Source: Free Music Archive / https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Joplin/Frog_Legs_Ragtime_Era_Favorites/03_-_scott_joplin_-_maple_leaf_rag/ Licence: CC0 / https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

This is from last year. I'm still trying to update these as i go, there shouldn't be that many old ones left. With that being said, this is about a great man that should be known to everyone. Percy Julian who had come up with multiple inventions as far as medicine is concerned. Please do some research on this man and enjoy.

Bio:Dr. Anton Dormer was born to immigrant parents within the City of New York. His mother is from the Caribbean Islands of Guadeloupe FWI and his father is from Jamaica. Both of them where very influential in Dr. Dormer entering the healthcare field.  Dr. Dormer grew up in a household where education was valued. Both his parents were in school throughout his educational experience from elementary, high school, college, and even medical school. They come to the United State without a high school and over 30 years went from having not even a high school degree to obtaining their college, masters, and doctoral degrees. Dr. Dormer has also an interesting education pursuit with many up and down. For example, he started out with the wrong person during the 10th grade and barely went to his classes. When he graduated from high school, he had less than a 3.00 GPA. It would seem that his dream that his had since his earliest memory would be dashed. To make matter worst and teacher would did not care for him much gave him a very poor grade in Chemistry which was a surprise to him and to his mother, who actually cried at his graduation.  Dr. Dormer was a nerd and his social skills was not the best.  Even so,  it was during high school in which a teacher took him under his wing. Ms. So' Brien, who was his science teacher, took him under her wing and he became her teacher's assistant. During his 11th and 12th grade he was making all of her labs for her science class. It was this experience that propel Dr. Dormer is decided during that time to become a physician scientist.    In addition, during this time he learned about the Black American scientist Percy Julian, who also owned his own company and was a self-made millionaire. I said to myself if he could accomplish so much during the time of segregation that I do even better during this hear and now.I made a goal after high to graduate at the top of my class from college with no C on my transcript and in four years. I was able to accomplish that goal, graduating from Oakwood University Summa Cum Laude with no Cs on his transcript and in four years. He was also accepted to several medical schools. He had a passion for research and so during medical school he was able to work during the summer on projects involving the areas of diabetes and immunology. Upon finishing medical he went on to work in the area of health administration. He has been able to work at several education settings including teacher as the associated professor at Atlantic Union College (AUC) and Washington Adventist University (WAU).He was recruited to WAU to bring research to the institution. It become a struggle since there was no faculty research environment to bring  this opportunity to the school. However, in the middle of this disappointment was able to start PepVax, Inc in 2013. The company focuses of licensing and developing targeted human health solutions via it patent protected technology called SMARTmid(tm), which heck-invented. Several companies has spun off from PepVax, making Dr. Dormer a serial entrepreneur. In 2019, he started BioLabShare, LLC when he was trying find affordable wet lab bioresearch space in Baltimore. The mission of the company is to address the current shortage of wet lab bioresearch space while diversifying human healthcare solutions.Connect with Dr. Anton Dormer!Website: www.pepvax.cowww.biolabshare.netEmail: anton.dormer@pepvax.coYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChbk5dl4twH60Uw-1Fp4NFAFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/anton.dormer/https://www.facebook.com/BiolabshareInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/win_it_in_a_minute_moments/LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/antondormer/https://www.linkedin.com/company/64553185/admin/ 

BlackFacts.com presents the black fact of the day for April 11.Birthday of chemist Percy Julian.He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine and was a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols.He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, the son of a railway mail clerk and the grandson of enslaved people.Julian attended DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana. The college accepted few African-American students.He graduated in 1920 as a Phi Beta Kappa and valedictorian.He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted from any field.In 1953, he established Julian Laboratories, a successful enterprise that he sold for more than $2 million in 1961. He later formed Julian Research Institute, a nonprofit research organization. He was active as a fund-raiser for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) for their project to sue to enforce civil rights legislation.Learn black history, teach black history at blackfacts.com

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FLYNN: Welcome to the Sound of Science. I'm Joseph Flynn with the Center for Black Studies and today Ms. Gaylen Rivers joins me as we look at prominent black figures in STEM.

Welcome to Day 9 of Black History month in this week we are moving onto our week of scientist and inventors, today we talk of the first African American who paved the way in the Science community...can you guess who it is...you probably guessed by looking at the title.

Despite his multiple honorary doctorates and being named Chicagoan of the Year, Chemist Dr. Percy Julian found himself up a tree with a shotgun defending his property because he was black and couldn't get help from the police to protect his property.  You can find the transcripts as well as blogs on the history of math and science on my Website at www.MathScienceHistory.com. And while you're there, please feel free to buy me a cup of coffee, because every cup of coffee keeps my podcast up and running!  Until next week, Carpe Diem!! Gabrielle

Julie takes us through the amazing history of Percy Julian and his inventions. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historicalshade/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/historicalshade/support

February 18 2020 If you like food and would like to help with Arts and Culture Festival this year, volunteering for the food festival is for you. Please sign up to volunteer with ACF's food festival on the arts board in the student activities hallway! Are you interested in learning more about the World Health Organization and how we can make the world a healthier place? Come out to Model United Nations Club today, at lunch, in room 325! See you there! Black history facts! Today we will be talking about Percy Julian! Percy earned his PhD despite being rejected from Harvard due to his race! His research led to treat glaucoma and arthritis. Although his race presented challenges at every stage, he is considered one of the most successful chemists in American history. The quote of today is:“Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations.”This was said By Dr. Mae Jemison, the first African-American female astronaut.And remember, black history is your history!

This week, Kevin takes us way back to a dark time in U.S. history: right after the civil war, to the time of Jim Crow laws. Percy Julian, the father of squeezing medicinal drugs out of beans, is our focus this week. In our most scientific episode yet, we learn about how steroids were invented and the man who is responsible.       Reach us at: backoftheclitass@gmail.com   Twitter/instagram: @bofthecpod  

https://twitter.com/Angel_IKYG If you'd like to do further research on any of the inventors mentioned in this video, below is a full list of all the inventors. Enjoy learning. Dr Mark Dean, Henry T Samson, Jesse Lee Russell, Dr. Philip Emeagwali, Benjamin Banneker, Jerry lawson, James forten, James Edward Maceo West, Madam CJ Walker, Walter Sammons, Lydia newman, Charles Orren, Kenneth J Dunkley, John Henry Thompson, Andrew Beard, Bessie Blount Griffin, Dr Donald Cotton, Willis Johnson, William Purvis, George Washington carver, Thomas L Jennings, George T Samson, J ross Moore, Sarah Boone, Augustus Jackson, Alfred L Craille, John Standard, Fredrick Jones, Alice H. Parker, Lonnie Johnson, Jan Matzeliger, Elijah McCoy, George Franklin Grant, Granville T. Woods, Lewis Latimer, Paul L Downing, Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, George Crum, Sarah E Goode, Garrett Morgan, Richard Spikes, Edmond Berger, Joseph Gammel, Thomas J Martin, Percy Julian, Ellen Elgin, John Burr, Walter Wiley Jones, Frederick D Patterson, Jonathan Smith, George Carruthers, Robert T Allen, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Robert F Flemming Jr, Thomas Elkins, Ozzie Williams, Tessema Dosho Shifferaw, Kevin Woolfolk, Henry Blair, Leonard C. Bailey, Valerie Thomas, Marie & Albert Van Brittan Brown, Otis Boykin, Dr. Charles Drew, Dr Patricia bath, George Alcorn, Dr Betty wright Harris, Jane Cooke Wright, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, Thomas A. Carrington, John Lee Love, Thomas Stewart, Lloyd Ray, David Unaipon, Norbert Rilleaux, Samuel R. Scrottron, Osbourn Dorsey, Albert C Richardson, William H. Richardson, Alexander Miles. You can also find over 20,000 inventions made by Black people in the book titled “Black Inventors” by Keith C Holmes. Peace, Love & Coconut Oil.

A black man born into the Jim Crow era overcomes adversity and becomes an award winning scientist.

This episode talks about the breakthroughs that Percy Julian made with regards to steroids and infertility using soybean products as a base. Check it out --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/EverydayBlackHistory/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/EverydayBlackHistory/support

Percy Lavon Julian (April 11, 1899 – April 19, 1975) was an African American research chemist and a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, and a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills. He later started his own company to synthesize steroid intermediates from the wild Mexican yam. His work helped greatly reduce the cost of steroid intermediates to large multinational pharmaceutical companies, helping to significantly expand the use of several important drugs. Julian received more than 130 chemical patents. He was one of the first African Americans to receive a doctorate in chemistry. He was the first African-American chemist inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, and the second African-American scientist inducted (behind David Blackwell) from any field. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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After two years, Glidden abandoned production of cortisone to concentrate on Substance S. Julian developed a multistep process for conversion of pregnenolone, available in abundance from soybean oil sterols, to cortexolone. In 1952, Glidden, which had been producing progesterone and other steroids from soybean oil, shut down its own production and began importing them from Mexico through an arrangement with Diosynth (a small Mexican company founded in 1947 by Russell Marker after leaving Syntex). Glidden's cost of production of cortexolone was relatively high, so Upjohn decided to use progesterone, available in large quantity at low cost from Syntex, to produce cortisone and hydrocortisone. In 1953, Julian founded his own research firm, Julian Laboratories, Inc. He brought many of his best chemists, including African-Americans and women, from Glidden to his own company. Julian won a contract to provide Upjohn with $2 million worth of progesterone To compete against Syntex, he would have to use the same Mexican yam Mexican barbasco trade as his starting material. Julian used his own money and borrowed from friends to build a processing plant in Mexico, but he could not get a permit from the government to harvest the yams. Abraham Zlotnik, a former Jewish University of Vienna classmate whom Julian had helped escape from the Holocaust, led a search to find a new source of the yam in Guatemala for the company. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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Circa 1950, Julian moved his family to the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, becoming the first African-American family to reside there. Although some residents welcomed them into the community, there was also opposition. Before they even moved in, on Thanksgiving Day, 1950, their home was fire-bombed. Later, after they moved in, the house was attacked with dynamite on June 12, 1951. The attacks galvanized the community, and a community group was formed to support the Julians. Julian's son later recounted that during these times, he and his father often kept watch over the family's property by sitting in a tree with a shotgun Julian's research at Glidden changed direction in 1940 when he began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol, isolated from soybean oil by a foam technique he invented and patented. At that time clinicians were discovering many uses for the newly discovered hormones. However, only minute quantities could be extracted from hundreds of pounds of the spinal cords of animals. On April 13, 1949, rheumatologist Philip Hench at the Mayo Clinic announced the dramatic effectiveness of cortisone in treating rheumatoid arthritis. The cortisone was produced by Merck at great expense using a complex 36-step synthesis developed by chemist Lewis Sarett, starting with deoxycholic acid from cattle bile acids. On September 30, 1949, Julian announced an improvement in the process of producing cortisone. This eliminated the need to use osmium tetroxide, which was a rare and expensive chemical. By 1950, Glidden could begin producing closely related compounds which might have partial cortisone activity. Julian also announced the synthesis, starting with the cheap and readily available pregnenolone (synthesized from the soybean oil sterol stigmasterol) of the steroid cortexolone (also known as Reichstein's Substance S), a molecule that differed from cortisone by a single missing oxygen atom; and possibly 17α-hydroxyprogesterone and pregnenetriolone, which he hoped might also be effective in treating rheumatoid arthritis but unfortunately they were not. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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Julian's research at Glidden changed direction in 1940 when he began work on synthesizing progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone from the plant sterols stigmasterol and sitosterol, isolated from soybean oil by a foam technique he invented and patented. At that time clinicians were discovering many uses for the newly discovered hormones. However, only minute quantities could be extracted from hundreds of pounds of the spinal cords of animals. In 1940 Julian was able to produce 100 lb of mixed soy sterols daily, which had a value of $10,000 as sex hormones. Julian was soon ozonizing 100 pounds daily of mixed sterol dibromides. The soy stigmasterol was easily converted into commercial quantities of the female hormone progesterone, and the first pound of progesterone he made, valued at $63,500 was shipped to the buyer, Upjohn, in an armored car. Production of other sex hormones soon followed. His work made possible the production of these hormones on a larger industrial scale, with the potential of reducing the cost of treating hormonal deficiencies. Julian and his co-workers obtained patents for Glidden on key processes for the preparation of progesterone and testosterone from soybean plant sterols. Product patents held by a former cartel of European pharmaceutical companies had prevented a significant reduction in wholesale and retail prices for clinical use of these hormones in the 1940s. He saved many lives with this discovery. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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At the lowest point in Julian's career, his former mentor, William Blanchard, threw him a much-needed lifeline. Blanchard offered Julian a position to teach organic chemistry at DePauw University in 1932. Julian then helped Josef Pikl, a fellow student at the University of Vienna, to come to the United States to work with him at DePauw. In 1935 Julian and Pikl completed the total synthesis of physostigmine and confirmed the structural formula assigned to it. Robert Robinson of Oxford University in the U.K. had been the first to publish a synthesis of physostigmine, but Julian noticed that the melting point of Robinson's end product was wrong, indicating that he had not created it. When Julian completed his synthesis, the melting point matched the correct one for natural physostigmine from the calabar bean. Julian also extracted stigmasterol, which took its name from Physostigma venenosum, the west African calabar bean that he hoped could serve as raw material for synthesis of human steroidal hormones. At about this time, in 1934, Butenandt and Fernholz, in Germany had shown that stigmasterol, isolated from soybean oil, could be converted to progesterone by synthetic organic chemistry. In 1936 Julian was denied a professorship at DePauw for racial reasons. DuPont had offered a job to fellow chemist Josef Pikl but declined to hire Julian, despite his superlative qualifications as an organic chemist, apologizing that they were "unaware he was a Negro". Julian next applied for a job at the Institute of Paper Chemistry (IPC) in Appleton, Wisconsin. However, Appleton was a sundown town, forbidding African Americans from staying overnight, stating directly: "No Negro should be bed or boarded overnight in Appleton." Meanwhile, Julian had written to the Glidden Company, a supplier of soybean oil products, to request a five-gallon sample of the oil to use as his starting point for the synthesis of human steroidal sex hormones (in part because his wife was suffering from infertility). After receiving the request, W. J. O'Brien, a vice-president at Glidden, made a telephone call to Julian, offering him the position of director of research at Glidden's Soya Products Division in Chicago. He was very likely offered the job by O'Brien because he was fluent in German, and Glidden had just purchased a modern continuous countercurrent solvent extraction plant from Germany for the extraction of vegetable oil from soybeans for paints and other uses Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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After returning from Vienna, Julian taught for one year at Howard University. At Howard, in part due to his position as a department head, Julian became caught up in university politics, setting off an embarrassing chain of events. At university president Mordecai Wyatt Johnson's request, he goaded white Professor of chemistry, Jacob Shohan into resigning.In late May 1932, Shohan retaliated by releasing to the local African-American newspaper the letters Julian had written to him from Vienna. The letters described "a variety of subjects from wine, pretty Viennese women, music and dances, to chemical experiments and plans for the new chemical building." In the letters, he spoke with familiarity, and with some derision, of specific members of the Howard University faculty, terming one well-known Dean, an "ass". Around this same time, Julian also became entangled in an interpersonal conflict with his laboratory assistant, Robert Thompson. Julian had recommended Thompson for dismissal in March 1932. Thompson sued Julian for "alienating the affections of his wife", Anna Roselle Thompson, stating he had seen them together in a sexual tryst. Julian counter-sued him for libel. When Thompson was fired, he too gave the paper intimate and personal letters which Julian had written to him from Vienna. Dr. Julian's letters revealed "how he fooled the [Howard] president into accepting his plans for the chemistry building" and "how he bluffed his good friend into appointing" a professor of Julian's liking. Through the summer of 1932, the Baltimore Afro-American published all of Julian's letters. Eventually, the scandal and accompanying pressure forced Julian to resign. He lost his position and everything he had worked for. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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Alkaloid-containing plants have been used by humans since ancient times for therapeutic and recreational purposes. For example, medicinal plants have been known in the Mesopotamia at least around 2000 BC. The Odyssey of Homer referred to a gift given to Helen by the Egyptian queen, a drug bringing oblivion. It is believed that the gift was an opium-containing drug.[28] A Chinese book on houseplants written in 1st–3rd centuries BC mentioned a medical use of Ephedra and opium poppies.[29] Also, coca leaves have been used by South American Indians since ancient times In 1929, while an instructor at Howard University, Julian received a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to continue his graduate work at the University of Vienna, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1931. He studied under Ernst Späth and was considered an impressive student. In Europe, he found freedom from the racial prejudices that had stifled him in the States. He freely participated in intellectual social gatherings, went to the opera and found greater acceptance among his peers. Julian was one of the first African Americans to receive a Ph.D. in chemistry, after St. Elmo Brady and Dr. Edward M.A. Chandler Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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Percy Lavon Julian was born in Montgomery, Alabama, as the first child of six born to James Sumner Julian and Elizabeth Lena Julian, née Adams. Both of his parents were graduates of what was to be Alabama State University. His father, James, whose own father had been a slave, was employed as a clerk in the Railway Service of the United States Post Office, while his mother, Elizabeth, worked as a schoolteacher. Percy Julian grew up in the time of racist Jim Crow culture and legal regime in the southern United States. Among his childhood memories was finding a lynched man hanged from a tree while walking in the woods near his home. At a time when access to an education beyond the eighth grade was extremely rare for African-Americans, Julian's parents steered all of their children toward higher education. Information Sourced From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Lavon_Julian Body Sourced From; https://youtu.be/KSq__sdYNNk Public Access America 
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Dr. Percy Julian was an American chemist whose work should be remembered.  I never knew about him growing up, but his contributions should be taught to children.

It’s not surprising that many of the medicines we use today are derived from plants. The surprising part is how similar the molecular components of plants are to the building blocks of our own human, mammalian bodies. This week we dive head first into a vat of soybean oil with Dr. Percy Julian who, against all odds, became one of the most prominent chemists of his time and whose work paved the way for the birth control pill. Plus, why the cone snail and its deadly neurotoxin just might be the key to a pain free future.

In this episode Alexa Harnagel shares the story of Sister Mary Ellen O’Hanlon, OP who was a scientist. She achieved a doctorate from the University of Chicago without missing a day of teaching and her relationship with renowned chemist Percy Julian and his wife drew her into the rising civil rights movement. She wrote Racial Myths which addressed issues of scientific study and human relations, and spoke frequently on racism. The Heresy of Race set forth scientific principles with evidence supporting equality later confirmed by DNA research. To see a picture of Sister Mary Ellen O’Hanlon, OP and source of information: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/515310382335969561/ Sound used in this episode: WebbFilmsUK: Marching http://www.freesound.org/people/WebbFilmsUK/sounds/200321/ Klanksbeeld: People on Square and Terrace http://www.freesound.org/people/klankbeeld/sounds/191274/ Xtragamr: Sing Along, Large Crowd, Big Party http://www.freesound.org/people/xtrgamr/sounds/243642/ Music used in this episode: Chris Zabriskie: There's Probably No Time http://freemusicarchive.org/music/ChrisZabriskie/UndercoverVampirePoliceman /03-TheresProbablyNoTime_1643 Curve Riders series art by Garrett Tiedemann. To listen on YouTube: http://youtu.be/WiIJ3LA5QfY To read about the making of this episode: https://www.sisterstory.org/blog/civil-rights-movement Curve Riders is a storytelling podcast produced by Alexa Harnagel and the oral history project SisterStory about the achievements and cultural impacts of women religious. Inspired by SisterStory's coverage "Sisters of Influence" on pinterest (www.pinterest.com/sisterstory/sisters-of-influence/) the podcast aims to present these stories anew with an emphasis on storytelling through writing, sound design, and music. SisterStory is the ongoing story of National Catholic Sisters Week aimed at broadening awareness of Catholic sisters through the collection of oral histories, social media outreach, and the creation of additional media content. For more information visit www.SisterStory.org. National Catholic Sisters Week is a celebration of the lives and legacies of Catholic sisters every year from March 8-14 in conjunction with NWHM. If you wish to participate or have events you would like to share please visit www.NationalCatholicSistersWeek.org.

Percy Julian, Chemical Heritage Foundation, NOVA, science education. Dr. John Theibault oversees the Chemical Heritage Foundation's portfolio of online resources for students and teachers, including 'Science Alive', 'Women in Chemistry', 'Chemical Achievers', and 'Explore Chemical History', workshops and conferences for stakeholders in science education - 'Leadership Initiative in Science Education', and collaborative projects with other content developers and educators.

Percy Julian, Chemical Heritage Foundation, NOVA, science education. Dr. John Theibault oversees the Chemical Heritage Foundation's portfolio of online resources for students and teachers, including 'Science Alive', 'Women in Chemistry', 'Chemical Achievers', and 'Explore Chemical History', workshops and conferences for stakeholders in science education - 'Leadership Initiative in Science Education', and collaborative projects with other content developers and educators.