Find key word's related to the history of MIT's Women's Laboratory! 

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Want to learn more about some of the terms in our word search? Below are links to some resource and archival collections that might be of interest!

• MIT Libraries' Department of Distinctive Collections, Collection on the MIT Women's Laboratory (AC-0298)

• MIT News, Scene at MIT: Ellen Swallow Richards leads the Women's Laboratory

• Smithsonian Magazine, The First Female Student at MIT Started and All-Women Chemistry Lab and Fought for Food Safety

• MIT Technology Review, How the Institute Went Coed

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"Watercolor of entry," Records of Howe, Manning and Almy, Inc., and the papers of Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning O'Connor, and May Almy, MC 9, Box 27, MIT, Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, MA.

Learn more about the women architects in the puzzle by exploring the following links.

• MIT Libraries' Department of Distinctive Collections, Records of Howe, Manning and Almy, Inc. and the papers of Lois Lilley Howe, Eleanor Manning O'Connor, and Mary Almy (MC-0009)

• Boston Society for Architecture, Designing Women

• MIT Technology Review, Constructing a place for female architects

• MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Against All Odds, MIT's Pioneering Women of Landscape Architecture

• Department of Distinctive Collections, Watercolors by Eleanor Manning O'Connor

• Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Sophia Gregoria Hayden Bennett

• Pioneering Women of American Architecture, Marion Mahoney Griffin

• MassMoments, Activist Florence Luscomb born

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"Association of Women Students, 1893" Courtesy MIT Museum

Learn more about Cleofan and its female members using the below links.

• MIT Libraries' Department of Distinctive Collections, MIT, records of Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Emily Wick (AC-0022)

• MIT Libraries' Department of Distinctive Collections, Cleofan Records (AC-0646) 

• The Tech, "Purposes of Cleofan, by Mrs. Richards"

• MIT Story Highlights Timeline, Eta Sigma Mu

• Coeducation at MIT: 1950s-1970s by Robert Gray

Dive into the stories of some MIT women and see if you can complete this scavenger hunt!

“100 Years of Women at MIT” Association of MIT Alumnae Records, MC 65, box 9. MIT, Distinctive Collections, Cambridge, MA.

Be inspired by women of the past who broke barriers to achieve success in STEM at MIT. These posters highlight their stories and demonstrate the challenges of being successful in traditionally male-dominated fields as well as their work to improve the lives of all Americans.