Women Who Code celebrates the brilliance of Black women in STEM, from engineering to programming. Honoring trailblazers like Katherine Johnson and Dorothy Vaughan, they highlight their impact while ...

Leaders say a perfect example is Katherine Johnson, the West Virginia State University graduate, who became a leading mathematician in the early days of the space program at NASA, including the ...

Katherine Johnson was a brilliant mathematician whose calculations helped NASA send astronauts to the Moon. Despite facing racial and gender barriers, she excelled, proving that talent and ...

Two Lewisburg Area High School seniors made it their mission to encourage younger girls to participate in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities. Eighteen-year-old ...

Katherine Johnson's pioneering contributions to the Space Race were highlighted in the film Hidden Figures, where she was played by Taraji P. Henson Rachel DeSantis is a senior writer on the ...

Retired mathematician Katherine Johnson — whose work inspired Hidden Figures — appeared at Sunday's Academy Awards with the film's cast Adam Carlson is the senior editor for human interest at ...

In 1962, John Glenn sat in his capsule waiting for his rocket engines to light-up and lift him to space. But first, he insisted that Katherine Johnson double-check the electronic computer’s ...