The Science Museum of the University of Navarra has promoted the project "Women in Science", which aims to provide society, and specifically girls who want to pursue a scientific career, with female references. It is an animated series that narrates, through small videos and in an informative tone, the biography of relevant female scientists in their field but who are unknown to the general public.

This is the case of Alice Catherine Evans, the first woman who presided over the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) in 1928 and whose scientific findings were an example in her specialty. Evans - the first woman to graduate as a specialist in Bacteriology in 1909 at Cornell University (New York) - managed to discover the relationship between the management of cattle on U.S. farms and the high percentage of abortions and deaths of cattle, as well as low milk production due to the presence of the Brucella bacterium.

Evans also developed protocols for milk pasteurization and led a campaign to publicize them to farmers, dairy product manufacturers, etc. Thanks to these protocols, the number of cases of brucellosis on U.S. farms dropped significantly and milk production multiplied. Finally, he received honorary doctorates from Wilson College of Pennsylvania and the University of Wisconsin, becoming an example and model for many microbiologists.

Professor of Biochemistry and draftsman

This project, promoted by the Science Museum of the University of Navarra in its aim to communicate, educate and disseminate science, is a collaboration between Iñigo Izal Azcárate -author of the drawings- and Ignacio López-Goñi, professor of Microbiology and co-author of the script of this first video.

"The celebration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science has been the perfect framework to present this initiative that aims to provide both girls and boys, and also adults, with female scientific references that made history in their fields on their own merits, and that can serve as a spur and mirror so that future scientists have examples to follow," explains the director of the Science Museum, Ignacio López-Goñi.