{"id":896,"date":"2018-07-20T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T21:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/?p=896"},"modified":"2019-05-01T12:05:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T17:05:54","slug":"books-on-women-in-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2018\/07\/20\/books-on-women-in-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Women in STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Women in STEM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-897 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/1.png\" alt=\"photo of whiteboard with written text &quot;I am a chemist, wife, reader, dog lover, woman in science&quot;\" width=\"273\" height=\"146\"><\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-898 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/2.png\" alt=\"Photo of whiteboard with written text &quot;I am a Ph.D. student in geology&quot;\" width=\"299\" height=\"158\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book collection at Rodgers Library for Science &amp; Engineering: With a Concentration on Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). And to support WISE (Women in STEM Experience) on UA campus.<\/p>\n<p>Have a look at the latest additions of books to UA Libraries collection that we think you&#8217;ll enjoy, or have a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/libraries\/rodgers\/\">browse<\/a> to find something you like.<\/p>\n<p>Suggestions for some fun read this summer \u2013 &nbsp;General science reading along with WISE focused books.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-899 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of &quot;Headstrong&quot;\" width=\"126\" height=\"187\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Headstrong: 52 women who changed science \u2013 and the world,<\/p>\n<p>TheDiscovery&nbsp;of&nbsp;Jeanne&nbsp;Baret : A&nbsp;Story&nbsp;of&nbsp;Science, the&nbsp;High&nbsp;Seas, and the<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>First&nbsp;Woman&nbsp;to&nbsp;Circumnavigate<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>the<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Globe.<\/p>\n<p>Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet<\/p>\n<p>Eyes on the street : the life of Jane Jacobs<\/p>\n<p>Lab girl<\/p>\n<p><i>The Manga Guides<\/i>&nbsp; &nbsp;is a series of educational Japanese Manga books. Each volume explains a particular subject in STEM areas.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JGS95i\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2JGS95i<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-900\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/4-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book cover of &quot;A crack in creation&quot;\" width=\"159\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/4-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/files\/2018\/07\/4.jpg 238w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 159px) 100vw, 159px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A crack in the Creation : Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Doudna, professor and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing&nbsp; &#8211; In her own words about how her interest in science deepened &#8211;&nbsp; \u201c thanks to a chemistry teacher, Miss Wong, who \u201ctaught us kids that science was about solving puzzles \u2014 it was about asking questions and figuring out how to answer them.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/update.lib.berkeley.edu\/2017\/11\/15\/doudna\/\">http:\/\/update.lib.berkeley.edu\/2017\/11\/15\/doudna\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more books check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/#\/home\">UA Libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women in STEM &nbsp; Book collection at Rodgers Library for Science &amp; Engineering: With a Concentration on Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). And to support WISE (Women in STEM Experience) on UA campus. Have a look at the latest additions of books to UA Libraries collection that we think you&#8217;ll enjoy, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/2018\/07\/20\/books-on-women-in-stem\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Books on Women in STEM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,12,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collections","category-engineering","category-nursing","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.lib.ua.edu\/blogs\/rlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}