• The Society of Woman Geographers was established in 1925 at a time when women were excluded from membership in most professional organizations, such as...
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    Blair Niles (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    American novelist and travel writer. She was a founding member of the Society of Woman Geographers. Born Mary Blair Rice, Blair was born on The Oaks, her parents'...
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  • Helen Kennedy (botanist) (category University of California, Davis alumni)
    Kennedy received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Society of Woman Geographers. Taxa named after Kennedy include Philodendron heleniae Croat...
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    member of Purdue University as an advisor in aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to female students. She was a member of the National Woman's Party...
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    Eleanor Roosevelt (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Sweden) in 1950. She was the most admired living woman, according to Gallup's most admired man and woman poll of Americans, every year between 1948 (the poll's...
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  • Association of Geographers Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Union World Geographers Association Royal Geographical Society of Queensland Royal...
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    co-ordinator". Pugh was a member of the Association of American Geographers and served as the president of the Society of Woman Geographers twice, in 1960–1963 and...
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    number of organizations such as the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and petitioned to list all chimpanzees...
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    Marie Tharp (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Her awards include: 1978 – National Geographic Society’s Hubbard Medal 1996 – Society of Woman Geographers Outstanding Achievement Award 1999 – Woods Hole...
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  • access Sleeping With Ghosts, a 2003 album by UK band Placebo Society of Woman Geographers, a professional association for researchers, scientists, explorers...
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    Sylvia Earle (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    the overall record with Graham Hawkes 1990: Society of Woman Geographers gold medal 1991: American Academy of Achievement Golden Plate Award 1996: Lindbergh...
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  • Anna Curtenius Roosevelt (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has been awarded the Explorers Medal and the Society of Woman Geographers' Gold Medal....
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    Yvette Borup Andrews (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    them from settling down to hard and conscientious work." The Society of Woman Geographers objected to his observations. In 1940, she was active with the...
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    Kathryn D. Sullivan (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Gold Medalists". Society of Woman Geographers. Retrieved February 3, 2020. "Pennant, Society of Woman Geographers, STS 41-G, Sullivan". Smithsonian National...
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    Mary Leakey (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    of Society of Woman Geographers, 1975 Linnaeus Gold Medal of the Royal Swedish Academy, 1978 The Elizabeth Blackwell Award, 1980 The Hubbard Medal of National...
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  • Te Ata (actress) (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Nation Hall of Fame, Retrieved January 20, 2015. Eppings, Jane. They Made Their Mark: An Illustrated History of the Society of Woman Geographers. Available...
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    Mary Nourse (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    topics related to East Asia into the 1960s. Nourse served in the Society of Woman Geographers, including a term as president. In 1965, she received a distinguished...
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  • Albany, State University of New York, Albany, NY 12222. Retrieved January 13, 2011. :Awards of The Society of Woman Geographers and Their Recipients Archived...
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    of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1948, the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1975, and the American Philosophical Society in...
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  • Gloria Hollister (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    scientific publications brought her recognition. She was a member of the Society of Woman Geographers and later received their Outstanding Achievement Award. In...
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    Irene Aloha Wright (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    and the Society of Woman Geographers. In 1953, Wright became president of the Society of Woman Geographers. In addition, she was a member of the Royal...
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    Pearl S. Buck (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for...
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  • Sara C. Bisel (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    for the Advancement of Science Society of Woman Geographers National Geographic Explorer's Club Outstanding Woman of Science, 1988. National Geographic...
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    Rachel Carson (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    first college at the university to bear a woman's name. Munich's Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society was founded in 2009. An international,...
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    Zonia Baber (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    at Society of Woman Geographers Triennial. Archived from the original on January 6, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011. Photographs from the Records of the...
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  • Janice Monk (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Outstanding Achievement Award, Society of Woman Geographers (2008) Enhancing Diversity Award, Association of American Geographers (2008) Distinguished Mentor...
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    Frances Oldham Kelsey (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    career intersected with the passage of laws strengthening FDA oversight of pharmaceuticals. Kelsey was the second woman to receive the President's Award...
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  • Polly Penhale (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    (Society of Woman Geographers) Penhale, P.A. 1972. Food requirements of the nine spine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, in an arctic tundra lake of northern...
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  • Ruth Robertson (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    2023, was inspired by Robertson's life. Society of Woman Geographers, member Pan American Round Table of Houston, member Foreign Correspondents' Club, Mexico...
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  • Ernestine Evans (category Members of the Society of Woman Geographers)
    Emerson Sen Society of Woman Geographers Office of War Information Janis P. Stout, Katherine Anne Porter: a sense of the times, University of Virginia Press...
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