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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls
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Working with two West High students in a chemical research laboratory of the U. W. Medical School, is Dr. Anna Maria Williams, center. At left, Mary Sedgwick, performs a lab test and at right Marjorie Kowitz works on an apparatus. They are participants in a program in which members of Madison's Beta chapter of Sigma Delta Epsilon, an international organization for women doing independent scientific research, work with a group of high school girls chosen for their outstanding aptitude and interest in science.
May 25, 1959
Stein, Edwin
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls
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Women Scientists Inspire High School Girls
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U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research
May 29, 1957
Student John Hunter demonstrates a fish training gadget developed by Dr. Wisby at the U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory on Lake Mendota.
U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory Research
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Carp are in a net during an experiment to develop a more efficient seine at the U.W. Hydrobiology Laboratory on Lake Mendota.
Dea Mae Ball in the State High School Debate Tournament
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Dea Mae Ball speaking from the podium in the forensics tournament for high school students held at Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus.
