Houston Matters
Downtown Hotel Renamed To Honor The ‘Mother Of Houston’
Posted on · The C. Baldwin Hotel gets its name from Charlotte Baldwin Allen, the woman often credited as 'the mother of Houston.'
Tag: women
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1696: Harriet Quimby
Posted on · Episode: 1696 Harriet Quimby, first American woman licensed to fly. Today, Harriet Quimby.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1673: Marie Lavoisier
Posted on · Episode: 1673 Who was Marie Lavoisier, amanuensis or collaborator? Today, meet Marie Lavoisier.
Houston Matters
Houston Organization Champions Women In Business And The Workplace
Posted on · Houstonian Michelle Hundley talks about her nonprofit The Influential Circle.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball
Posted on · Episode: 3205 Alice Augusta Ball and Her Work on Leprosy. Today, a legacy with a sad coda.
Houston Matters
Women In Technology, And Move Over-Slow Down Enforcement: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The News
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts breaks down stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2865: Computer Divide
Posted on · Episode: 2865 Computer Divide: The Future of Microprocessors. Today, two roads.
Houston Matters
Women On The Board, And Some Mansplaining From The Police: The Good, Bad, And Ugly Of The News
Posted on · The Houston Matters panel of non-experts weighs in on stories from the week’s news and decides if they’re good, bad, or ugly.
Business
Houston Executive Boards Are Becoming More Female
Posted on · A growing number of executive board directors at Houston-based corporations are female, but Houston's companies are still lagging behind the nation's largest companies.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3202: Gladys West
Posted on · Episode: 3202 Gladys West and the Geoid. Today, a quiet hero.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1623: Joel Dorman and Esther Steele
Posted on · Episode: 1623 The textbooks of J. Dorman and Esther Steele. Today, we meet two very special teachers.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3132: Kitchen Gadgetry
Posted on · Episode: 3132 Gadgets in the American Kitchen. Today, gadgets galore.
Houston Matters
How A Texas Woman Saved High School Football ‘When The Men Were Gone’
Posted on · Marjorie Herrera Lewis tells the true story of Tylene Wilson, who stepped up to coach the Brownwood football team during World War II.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 1603: Old Galileo
Posted on · Episode: 1603 Galileo: An old man grieves his daughter and writes his last book. Today, an old man writes his most important book.
Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 3196: Flannery O’Connor
Posted on · Episode: 3196 The Life and Writing of Flannery O’Connor. Today, dirtied feathers.