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Barbara McClintock, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist

How can one person’s determination make a difference in our community, state, and world?

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Dr. Jewel Plummer Cobb: A Role Model in STEM and Higher Education

To what extent is it easier for women and people of color to enter the fields of STEM and higher education today than it was in the 1950s–1990s?

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Eugenics in Connecticut: Legislating Genetic Purity in the Nutmeg State

Are all reforms good?

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Hill-Stead workers and overseer Allen Cook, ca. 1913

Is That a Mastodon?! A Case Study in Civic Responsibility

To what extent are we, as citizens and communities, responsible for scientifically and/or historically significant finds on public property?

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