Word: serratia
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...became the breadwinner. She worked in a lab for $600 a year, "feeling darned lucky because at that price they had so little string on me." In two years she used her freedom for pioneer work on microbial genetics, and found her research specialty -a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens, whose color makes it easy to trace...
...Douglass. Mary Bunting first tried out her ideas for more confidence by letting the girls run their own multilingual course in world poetry ("It was a dandy"). She started part-time studies for married women, and made it a great success-while she herself did radiation research on serratia for the Atomic Energy Commission. When Radcliffe asked her to succeed retiring President Wilbur K. Jordan in 1959, she had doubts. Radcliffe seemed to be "cooking along," and her own campus needed help. But she saw a bigger problem: the low motivation of U.S. college girls in general. Radcliffe, "kind...
...widow of Yale Pathologist Henry Bunting, she had a distinguished teaching career at Bennington, Goucher, Wellesley and Yale. In 1955 she became dean of Rutgers University's Douglass College for women, carried on radiation research for the Atomic Energy Commission. Her specialty: a bright red bacterium called serratia marcescens ("I'm quite sure the Miracle of the Bleeding Host, which took place in medieval churches, was serratia"). She plans to set up her own lab at Radcliffe, teach a freshman seminar...
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