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Research interview with Damali Rhett
- 2017-Jul-13
Damali Rhett was born in October 1977, in Cleveland, Ohio. Her name derives from a Nigerian praise poem and means “beautiful vision.” As an infant, Damali moved to Washington, D.C. During high school Damali was accepted…
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Research interview with Pouné Saberi
- 2017-Jul-14
Pouné Saberi was born in Tehran, Iran, and experienced the 1979 Iranian Revolution as a child. Her family left Iran in the mid-1980s during its war with Iraq and settled briefly in Boston. Pouné’s parents and younger…
- Interviewee Saberi, Pouné
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject Saberi, Pouné, Women in science, Women in medicine, Physicians, Women physicians, Revolution (Iran : 1979), Public health, Physicians for Social Responsibility (U.S.), Toxins--Environmental aspects, Emigration and immigration
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Research interview with Kirtrina Baxter
- 2017-Jul-27
- 2017-Aug-02
Kirtrina Baxter was born in 1969 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She grew up in a diverse neighborhood in Willingboro, New Jersey, where her parents are Evangelical pastors. Katrina spent childhood summers in Philadelphia…
- Interviewee Baxter, Kirtrina, 1969-
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject Baxter, Kirtrina, 1969-, Women in science, Scientists, Black, African American women, Urban agriculture, Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
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Research interview with Tykee James
- 2017-Aug-02
Tykee James was born on January 21, 1994, at Temple Hospital in North Philadelphia. He soon moved with his parents to the Fort Irwin Army Base in the High Mojave Desert of California. In 2000, after his parents’…
- Interviewee James, Tykee, 1994-
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject James, Tykee, 1994-, Environmentalists--Political activity, Air quality, Air--Pollution
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2 items
Research interview with Peter Handler
- 2017-Aug-03
Peter Handler was born in 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, and spent much of his childhood in New Jersey. Self-described as an atheist-Jew, Peter spent his summers as a teenager at the Shaker Village Work Camp in New…
- Interviewee Handler, Peter, 1947-
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject Handler, Peter, 1947-, Woodstock Festival, Communal living, Climatology, Environmentalists--Political activity
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Research interview with Adam Garber
- 2017-Aug-07
Adam Garber was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1983. He has three sisters, including a twin, and both his parents have PhDs. Adam and his family were very involved in their synagogue and Atlanta’s Jewish community. At the…
- Interviewee Garber, Adam, 1983-
- Interviewer Eardley-Pryor, Roger
- Sponsor Climate & Urban Systems Partnership
- Subject Garber, Adam, 1983-, Air--Pollution, Air quality, Judaism, Clean energy, Environmental policy, Pollution
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Research interview with Rasheedah Phillips
- 2017-Sep-11
Rasheedah Phillips was born in Trenton, New Jersey in 1984. She moved to Philadelphia at fourteen years old, the same year she became a mother. Four years later, Rasheedah graduated with honors from Abraham Lincoln High…
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Oral history interview with Sandra Harding
- 2019-Apr-23 – 2019-Apr-25
- 2019-Aug-28
Sandra Harding was born in San Francisco, California, the first of five children born to Lloyd and Constance Harding. Her father's struggle to find work during the Great Depression led the family to Los Angeles, where…
- Interviewee Harding, Sandra G.
- Interviewer Klett, Joseph, Roberts, Jody A., 1976-
- Subject Harding, Sandra G., Philosophers, Women philosophers, Feminism, Feminist theory, Feminists, Science--Philosophy, Women in higher education
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4 items
Oral history interview with Shirley Mahaley Malcom
- 2020-Aug-05
- 2020-Aug-25
Shirley Mahaley Malcom was born in 1946 in Birmingham, Alabama, which was a segregated city. She grew up in her grandmother’s house with her parents and sister and was surrounded by other family and a strong Black…
- Interviewee Malcom, Shirley M., 1946-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger), Matthews, Kirstin R. W.
- Subject Civil rights movements, Race discrimination, Minorities in science, Women in science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Science and state, National Science Board (U.S.), Sputnik satellites, African American women scientists, Clinton, Bill, 1946-, Scientists, Black, Ecologists, Malcom, Shirley M., 1946-
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Oral history interview with Norman R. Augustine
- 2020-Sep-22
- 2020-Oct-15
Norman R. Augustine was born on July 27, 1935, in Denver, Colorado. An only child, he grew up just about on the prairie and loved spending time in the nearby mountains. His father fought in World War I, and Augustine…
- Interviewee Augustine, Norman R.
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger), Matthews, Kirstin R. W.
- Subject Augustine, Norman R., Aerospace engineering, Douglas Aircraft Company, Pentagon (Va.), United States. Defense Science Board, Martin Marietta Corporation, Science and state, Lockheed Martin
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4 items
Oral history interview with Maxine Savitz
- 2021-Jul-01
- 2021-Jul-08
Maxine Savitz was born in 1937 in Baltimore, Maryland. Her parents had both been born in the United States; her father’s family was from Ukraine, and her mother’s family was from Russia. The oldest of three children,…
- Interviewee Savitz, Maxine L. (Maxine Lazarus), 1937-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Maryland--Baltimore, Bryn Mawr College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fuel cells--Research, Science and state, Garrett Corporation, Allied-Signal Inc., Honeywell Inc., National Academy of Engineering, Executive advisory bodies, Women in science, Engineers
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4 items
Oral history interview with Thomas E. Lovejoy III
- 2021-Jul-07
- 2021-Jul-30
Thomas E. Lovejoy III was born in New York City, New York, in 1941. An only child, Lovejoy spent a year-and-a-half on the eastern shore of Maryland out in nature as a young child. His father ran a life insurance…
- Interviewee Lovejoy, Thomas E.
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Lovejoy, Thomas E., Amazon River Region, World Wildlife Fund, Zoology, Biologists, Ornithology, Ecology, Environmental policy, Biodiversity conservation, Science and state
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4 items
Oral history interview with Luis Proenza
- 2021-Jul-16
- 2021-Aug-06
Luis Proenza was born in 1944 in Mexico City, Mexico. When he was growing up, his parents ran a family business. He grew up in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and Acapulco, Mexico. Proenza remembers spending time by the ocean and…
- Interviewee Proenza, Luis M.
- Interviewer Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger), Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-
- Subject Science and state, Minorities in science, Neurosciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Purdue University, University of Akron, College presidents, Academic-industrial collaboration, Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-, United States. Arctic Research Commission, Emigration and immigration, Proenza, Luis M.
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Oral history interview with Vishva M. Dixit
- 2022-Feb-28
- 2022-Apr-18
Vishva M. Dixit was born in Kisii, Kenya in 1956. His parents, who were originally from India, served as physicians in Kenya with the British Army, and they stayed in the country after their service. Dixit experienced…
- Interviewee Dixit, Vishva
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Schneider, Sarah, 1991-
- Subject Emigration and immigration, Physicians, Molecular biology, Apoptosis, Cancer--Research, Genentech, Inc., Biotechnology, University of Michigan. Medical School, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, Thrombospondins, Cancer--Treatment, Dixit, Vishva
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Oral history interview with Barbara A. Schaal
- 2022-May-26
- 2022-Jun-30
Barbara A. Schaal was born in 1947 in Berlin, Germany. In 1950 the family immigrated to the United States where they met her aunt and uncle (her father’s brother) in Chicago, Illinois. As Schaal grew up, she started to…
- Interviewee Schaal, Barbara A., 1947-
- Interviewer Caruso, David J. (David Joseph), 1978-, Evans, Kenneth M., (Kenneth Mellinger)
- Subject Emigration and immigration, Schaal, Barbara A., 1947-, Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), Levin, Donald A., Science and state, Botany, Varmus, Harold, Agriculture, Immigrants--Cultural assimilation, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-), Plants--Evolution