December 14: TODAY'S INSPIRING WOMEN
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman elected to both houses of Congress (R-ME), was born in 1987. She was the first in the Senate to challenge Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-communist crusade.
Jill Pipher, president of the Association of Women in Mathematics, and the first director of the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics, was born today in 1955.