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SOCIAL JUSTICE EVENTS & READINGS
Select from a range of topics and formats
for your late Winter reading, viewing, or listening,
curated by PLATO's Diversity Awareness Committee.
DID YOU KNOW? for March 1 - 14, 2022
Did You Know... Jessie Isabelle Price, was a veterinary microbiologist who studied and worked at the Cornell University Duck Research Laboratory where she identified the cause of the most common life-threatening disease in duck farming in the 1950’s. She then developed preventive vaccines for this and many other avian diseases.
Price, a black woman, was highly praised for her work in vaccine development which greatly aided commercial duck, turkey, and pigeon farming. She relocated to Madison, Wisconsin in 1977 to work as a research microbiologist at the National Wildlife Health Center, where she focused on diseases in waterfowl and environmental contaminants.
Visit the Social Justice Webpage for much more about Jessie Isabelle Price & past DID YOU KNOW? features.
DID YOU KNOW? – spotlighting notable contributions made by non-mainstream individuals you might not have learned or read about. Suggestions for inclusions are welcome (send to Kathy at: ksmichaelis@gmail.com).
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