In the Media

Biology graduate Katharine Dexter McCormick, SB 1904, a philanthropist, a pivotal force in the fight for women's suffrage and chief funder of the science that led to the birth control pill, is included in the New York Times’ Overlooked series, which features obituaries of “remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.”  Rejecting societal conventions, McCormick “successfully challenged a rule that female students had to wear hats at all times, arguing that they posed a fire hazard in the science labs,” writes Katharine Q. Seelye.