The California Institute of Technology, long a bastion of male STEM students, enrolls an undergraduate class of majority women this fall, the first time in its 133-year history.
The auditorium was packed with hundreds of high school girls from across the nation fangirling a YouTube idol they dream to emulate. There before them stood Katie Bouman, an assistant professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and astronomy at Caltech in Pasadena, showing off images of a dark hole ringed by a fire-colored halo.
During the faculty meeting to debate the issue in 1967, Mead said, many of the 'old farts' complained that women would feel outnumbered and would just get married and have children and that 'we could have educated somebody who was going to do ... science.' He left the meeting and called an MIT woman graduate he knew. She told him she had had no problems being a minority at the Cambridge, Mass., campus.
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