“Women Untold” film screening Feb. 11
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HFC is celebrating the International Day of Women and Girls in Science and Black History Month on Friday, Feb. 11, from noon to 1:00 p.m. by screening Women Untold.
Written, produced, and directed by Marie Anne Torres – an alumna of Lawrence Technological University in Southfield – Women Untold is a documentary about three women of color in STEM:
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, a cancer research pioneer and president of California State University, Fullerton.
- Alice August Ball, a chemist who developed the “Ball Method,” the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century.
- Evelyn Boyd Granville, a NASA mathematician who worked on three space missions.
Panel discussions will follow. For questions or more information, contact Dr. Sibrina Collins at scollins@ltu.edu.