By Emily K. Gibson, PhD March 8, 2021
On November 12, 1969, six women linked arms as they walked down the ramp of a large, ski-equipped Navy transport plane in Antarctica. Lois Jones, Terry Lee Tickhill Terrell, Kay Lindsay, and Eileen McSaveney all researchers from Ohio State University were joined by Pam Young, a scientist from New Zealand, and Jean Pearson, a reporter for the Detroit Free Press
as they stepped onto the ice near the Earth’s southernmost point. With that final step, they became the first women to visit the South Pole.
After lunching with a group of researchers and Navy men working at the Amundsen-Scott research station, the women posed for a photo in front of the iconic, mirrored marker for the geographic South Pole before boarding a transport plane back to McMurdo Station, located on the Antarctic coast. Though they’d just made history, they were anxious to turn their attention to what had brought them to Antarctica in the first place resear
NSF s mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
NSF s mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.
March 11, 2021 2:00 PM to
March 11, 2021 3:00 PM Virtual
Join us Thursday, March 11th from 2pm-3pm EST for a webinar on the new solicitation, Understanding the Rules of Life: Emerging Networks (URoL:EN, NSF 21-560). Program Officers will provide an introduction to the new cross-Directorate solicitation and representatives from the program will be available for questions.
As part of the
Understanding the Rules of Life: Predicting Phenotype, one of ten “Big Ideas” NSF-wide, this new solicitation builds on previous URoL programs to help increase knowledge and the ability to predict an organism’s observable characteristics its phenotype from its genotype. Understanding the mechanisms at play in the interconnections between living organisms and their environments, across every biological scale, will provide vital insight into grand biological challenges, help advance biotechnology to spur the US bioeconomy, and a