THE GREAT WOMEN PORTRAIT PROJECT
Revealing the female face of innovation
Educating this generation.
Inspiring the next.
Latest Project News:
Lockheed Martin Canada has purchased a selection of Great Women portraits/prints of pioneering Canadian women in STEM for each facility across Canada as part of a diversity and inclusion initiative.
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Across Canada:
More than 30 leaders in Canada's energy industry are honouring Canada's first female nuclear physicist, Harriet Brooks, in offices in Canada, and the U.S. (some photos below)
In Halifax, Nova Scotia:
Dalhousie University's Faculties and Students of Engineering and Architecture & Planning can now see many Great Women of STEM portrait prints in their Sexton Design and Technology Library.
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CEOS collaborate to honour Canadian pioneer and celebrate great girls & women in STEM
On the International Day of the Girl, female CEOs in Canada's nuclear energy industry - Rumina Velshi, shown here, then President of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), Rachna Clavero, CEO, CANDU Owners Group, Lisa McBride, President, Women in Nuclear Canada, and Laurie Swami, President and CEO, Nuclear Waste Management - celebrated girls and women in STEM by collaborating to commission a portrait and portrait prints of STEM pioneeer and Canada's first female nuclear physicist, Harriet Brooks. Brook's original oil portrait now hangs at CNSC headquarters, and portrait prints hang in professional spaces across the country.