She and her staff at Union Carbide created synthetic materials that improved various industrial processes, including purifying water. She also developed a way to make emeralds. By Richard Sandomir ...
Edith “Edie” Whitman, 89, of West Hartford, Connecticut, passed away peacefully at her home on January 18, 2026, surrounded by her family. She was born in Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, New York. She was ...
Edith Renfrow Smith was born in Iowa two weeks before the start of World War I. Her earliest memories involve the end of the war in 1918 and a neighbor who came home having lost both legs. She met ...
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Edith Renfrow Smith grew up in the 1910s hearing her grandparents’ stories of surviving slavery, including a grandfather who escaped bondage with a group led by abolitionist John ...
Edith Renfrow Smith, the granddaughter of slaves, died at the age of 111. In 1937, she became the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa. Grinnell College honored her by awarding ...
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Edith Renfrow Smith, the first Black woman to graduate from Grinnell College in Iowa and a longtime Chicago schoolteacher, remained mentally sharp well past 100, becoming the subject for medical ...
Edith Shadd Green, retired English department head at Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, died of pneumonia complications Oct. 23 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. The Pikesville resident was 82. Born ...
Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. “I love French food — I love the history of cuisine itself,” Tomaska says ...
The year was 1893, when a tragedy shook the foundations of Edith Stein’s family. Her mother, Auguste Stein, had given birth to 11 children, with four dying in infancy. When Edith, the youngest child, ...
Edith Chapin, who is also acting chief content officer, has been editor in chief of the public radio network since 2023. By Benjamin Mullin Edith Chapin, the top editor and acting chief content ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – July 22, 2025 – Today, NPR announced that Edith Chapin, who for 13 years has served in pivotal editorial leadership roles at NPR, will be stepping down from her role as Senior Vice ...