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Event Details
editThere are many interesting women associated with MIT who have sparse Wikipedia entries or no presence at all. You can help fix this! Come to this Wikipedia Edit-a-thon to create or edit articles about MIT women using collections from the MIT Institute Archives as well as secondary sources. The Institute Archives collects materials from MIT alumni, faculty and departments. One of the collections we’ll be using for this Edit-a-thon is the Howe, Manning, Almy papers. Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning and Mary Almy are believed to be the first women to open an architecture firm in Boston.
Date
editJanuary 23, 2015, 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST
Venue
editMIT Institute Archives and Special Collections, 14N-118
Agenda
edit- 09:45 AM - 10:00 AM Arrive
- 10:00 AM - 10:20 AM Basics of Editing
- 10:20 AM - 12:00 PM Editing selected articles
Remember to bring your laptop and charger!
Track your work during the event on our Etherpad.
Sign Up
editBecause of limited space, this event can only accommodate 14 participants in-person. This event is an IAP (Independent Activities Period) session for MIT students, faculty, and staff. Non-MIT participants, or those not able to attend in person are encouraged to join us and edit remotely.
Attending
editTo sign up, you'll need to create a Wikipedia account. Once you've created an account, you can edit this section and add your username to this list.
- CasseCrepeBreton
- Ctanguay
- Rtbhive (talk) 00:31, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
- Siana720
- dgobs23
- krhettn
- Gracenot
Participating Remotely
editArticles to improve
edit- Howe, Manning & Almy, Inc.
- Lois Lilley Howe - founder of the all female architecture firm Howe, Manning, and Almy
- Eleanor Manning O'Connor - female architect and a part of the firm Howe, Manning, and Almy
- Mary Almy - female architect and a part of the firm Howe, Manning, and Almy
- Mariemont Historic District - Mariemont is a planned community village in Hamilton County, Ohio. It was founded in the 1920s. The architecture firm Howe, Manning, and Almy contributed to its design.
- Garland Junior College (1872-1976) was a liberal arts women's college in Boston, Massachusetts. Howe, Manning, and Almy completed three commissions for the school.
- Vera Kistiakowsky - the first woman to be appointed MIT professor of physics, in 1972. Her scientific research focused on nuclear and elementary particle physics and experimental high energy physics.
- Howe House (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Emily Wick - the first woman to reach the rank of tenured faculty, she taught in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science
- Sophia Hayden Bennett - the first female graduate of the four-year program in architecture at MIT.
- Katharine McCormick - earned a degree in biology from MIT, was an activist for women’s suffrage, and later funded research that led to the development of the birth control pill
- Sheila Widnall - earned three degrees from MIT, is an institute professor, and was the first female Secretary of the U.S. Airforce during the 1990s
- Nancy Hopkins - molecular biologist, Amgen, Inc. Professor of Biology at MIT
- Evelynn M. Hammonds - Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of History of Science and African American Studies at Harvard University and black feminist author. Graduated from MIT with a master's degree in physics in 1980.
- Margaret MacVicar - MIT's Dean of Undergraduate Education from 1985–1990, founder of Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) in 1969. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT and joined the faculty.
- Leslie Bradley Cutler - Former MIT student and politician. Congresswoman (1935-49) and Senator (1949-69) in Massachusetts.
- Dorothy Walcott Weeks - the first women to receive a PhD in Mathematics from MIT (1930)
Articles to Create
edit- Dorothy Quiggle - MIT graduate who went on to professorship at Penn State. In 1939 she was awarded a patent for a solution to rapidly remove free oxygen from gases.
- "Black Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name, 1894-1994" - Conference that was the first of its kind, held at MIT in January of 1994.
Resources
editWikipedia resources
edit- How to run an edit-a-thon
- Five Pillars of Wikipedia
- Beginners’ Guide to Wikipedia
- How to use Primary Sources on Wikipedia - No Original Research
- Wikipedia Mark-Up Cheat Sheat
- What is an Infobox?
- Categorization
Digital resources
edit- Historical newspapers (online) MIT Libraries
- Reference Resources (e.g. encyclopedias) online via MIT Library
- Internet Archive Digitized Texts
- Hathi Trust Digital Library
- 125 Years of Women Exhibit (list of women in the exhibit)
- Against All Odds: MIT’s pioneering women of landscape architecture
- Cambridge Women’s Heritage Project
- Lois Lilley Howe House at National Parks Service "Places Where Women Made History"
- MIT Class of 1964 The MIT Association of Women Students
- A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT
- Women and Gender Studies hosted a IAP Edit-a-thon as well. The meet-up page has a lot of useful resources. Writing Women into Wikipedia - MIT
Results
editNew articles created
editBlack Women in the Academy: Defending Our Name 1894-1994