To recruit additional women as wildlife rangers to defend the expanding wilderness portfolio, the Judith Neilson Foundation has supported the International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) with a US$700,000 (A$1 million) grant, which will be used to reinforce its ‘Akashinga – Nature Protected by Women’ program in Zimbabwe.
UNAIDs Zero Discrimination Day – Save Lives: Decriminalise
By Becky Alexander O.
Each year on March 1st, through Zero Discrimination Day, the United Nations raises awareness about the right of everyone to live their life with dignity and respect, living a full and profitable life. The day highlights inclusion and compassion and is becoming a movement for change to end all shapes of discrimination.
STEM Women World Changers Symposium (SWWCS 2023)
…High-level Gathering of Leading STEM Women Who Solve Global Challenges
The Centre for Economic and Leadership Development, in collaboration with Amazons Watch Magazine, is bringing together women scientists, technologists, engineers, mathematicians, researchers, innovators and politicians invested in STEM for the maiden edition of the STEM Women World Changers Symposium (SWWCS) 2023 scheduled to be launched on March 29, 2023 (London GMT+1) via Zoom, in commemoration of the 2023 International Women’s Day celebrations.
American Politician and Attorney McClellan Makes History as Virginia’s First Black Woman Elected to U.S. Congress
“I have spent my entire career dismantling the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, and I’ve walked past the statute of Harry Byrd every day into the state capitol knowing I am his worst nightmare: A Black woman working to eradicate the inequity that he put in place.”- McClellan.
Mikaela Shiffrin Takes a Commanding First-run Lead, Becomes Most Successful Skier in the Modern Era
“Today, I saw myself losing it. My heart is going crazy; I feel like I am going to faint,” Mikaela Shiffrin said after she won her seventh career Alpine world championships gold medal, winning the giant slalom in Méribel, France, in the Alps.
Tufts University’s Dean of Graduate Education, Prof. Karen Panetta, Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Tufts University’s Dean of Graduate Education of Tufts School of Engineering, Professor Karen Panetta, was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Her election is coming two months after she received honoured with the Distinguished Service Award from the honour society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN), in December 2022.
Study Reveals Pregnant Women at Higher Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
A new study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine’s (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting™ — and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, USA shared how pregnant women with gestational diabetes are more likely to develop Type 2 diabetes later in life. Gestational diabetes (LGA) is another common cause of newborns who are too big for their gestational age. LGA infants weigh more than 90% of all infants of the same gestational age. Neonatal LGA babies were likelier to be admitted to the neonatal critical care unit and later develop health issues like Type 2 diabetes and obesity.