Wikipedia:WikiProject Wentworth Institute of Technology Ada Lovelace Edit-a-thon

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Women in STEM Edit-a-thon at Wentworth Institute of Technology: Ada Lovelace 2014

Schedule of Events[edit]

Wentworth Institute of Technology's Alumni Library and Women's Integrating Taskforce (WIT^2) will host a celebration of women's contributions to STEM fields. All events will take place in the Alumni Library Program Room (Beatty 201BA).

Wednesday, October 29, 2pm - 2:50pm: Roundtable discussion on Ada Lovelace's life, work, and times with Professor Cynthia Williams, Department of Humanities

Thursday, October 30, 12:30pm - 6:00pm: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to improve coverage of female mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. Open-house style, drop in as your schedule allows and edit with us. Library resources and refreshments will be provided.

Alumni Library Resource Guide[edit]

Find resources on women in STEM available at Wentworth's Alumni Library: Library Resource Guide

Get Involved[edit]

If you would like to participate, please join the project.

How to edit Wikipedia[edit]

Orientation to basic Wikipedia editing will be provided at the event. Here are some useful resources on editing Wikipedia:

Wikipedia general introduction on editing articles

Guide to Wikipedia's assessment scheme for quality of articles

Notable STEM women whose Wikipedia entries need creating or improving[edit]

Astronomers

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Margaret Geller American Galaxies Start-class
Caroline Herschel German British Comets C-class
Vera Rubin American Galaxies C-class

Biologists

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Rita Levi-Montalcini Italian Neurology C-class
Martha Chase American DNA and genetics Stub-class
Rosalind Franklin British DNA structure B-class

Chemists

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Mildred Dresselhaus American Carbon science Start-class
Irene Joliot-Curie French Radiochemistry C-class

Computer Science

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Frances Spence

Mathematicians

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat French Mathematical physics Start-class
Olga Ladyzhenskaya Russian Partial differential equations Start-class
Nina Uraltseva Russian Partial differential equations No article yet
Lesley Sibner American Geometric gauge theory Start-class
Olga Taussky-Todd Czech-American Group theory Start-class
Irene Stegun American Handbook of mathematical functions Stub-class
Joan Birman American Knot Theory Stub-class

Physicists

Name Nationality Field Wiki status
Cecile DeWitt-Morette French Quantum theory C-class
Deborah Jin American Condensed matter Stub-class
Fabiola Gianotti Italian Particle physics Stub-class
Margaret Murnane Irish Lasers Start-class
Helen Quinn American Particle physics Start-class
Lisa Randall American String theory Start-class
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin British-American Star composition C-class
Marie Curie Polish, French Physics and Chemistry GA-class

Marie Curie's article is pretty good, but it may be nice to emphasize the fact she is the first person to win two Nobel Prizes and the only person to win in two different areas over the fact that she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

See also

Notable Women in Computer Science

List of female scientists before the 21st century

These women should earn a Nobel prize in physics, Slate.com

"Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know", The Smithsonian

"Five Historic Female Mathematicians You Should Know", The Smithsonian

Participants[edit]

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. You need to complete the quick and easy process of signing up for a Wiki account first (see the upper right corner of the page).

  1. idempotent (talk · contribs) (Rachel Maitra) 01:23, 10 October 2014 (UTC) I'll edit Cecile DeWitt-Morette's article.[reply]
  2. assiterk (talk · contribs) (Karina Assiter) 15:46, 30 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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