Sofia Tokar
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Director of Content 
We鈥檙e surfacing a selection of stories about women in the University鈥檚 history whose contributions deserve wider recognition鈥攏ot only during Women鈥檚 History Month, but also year-round.
Mary Calderone 鈥�39M (MD) was a pioneering advocate for sex education who was both celebrated and vilified for her work during a time a great cultural division over sexuality and feminism.
Vera Micheles Dean served as the founding director of the University鈥檚 Non-Western Civilizations program, one of the first such interdisciplinary programs for undergraduates in the country.
The cofounder of the first pediatric nurse practitioner program was also the founding dean of the 人妻少妇专区 School of Nursing.
Surviving the 1921 Tulsa, Oklahoma, race massacre, Olivia Hooker 鈥�62 (PhD) was the first Black woman to serve in the Coast Guard and became a prominent psychology professor.
Beatrice Amaza Howard 鈥�31, 鈥�33 (MA) earned two degrees at Rochester before embarking on a career as a public school teacher.
Sylvy Kornberg 鈥�38, 鈥�40M (MS), a biochemist most often cited as the wife and the mother of Nobel Prize-winning scientists, but who played a critical role in the discovery of DNA replication.
The professor emerita, known as the 鈥渕other of infrared astronomy,鈥� had a profound impact on research into astronomical phenomena and the origins of the universe and was a pioneer for women in science.
Donna Strickland 鈥�89 (PhD) is only the third woman to receive the prize in physics, joining Marie Curie (1903) and Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963). She is the first woman laureate in Rochester鈥檚 history.
Throughout Women鈥檚 History Month, take part in events that celebrate and remember women鈥檚 history.
Check the calendar for events throughout the month of March.
