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colinmac

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based in Honolulu, Hawaii

currently: web designer / photographer at University of Hawaii;
previously: UH Professor of Communication; Creative Director, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Art Director, A&M Records of Canada

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We want you to know the name Alice Ball. She was the first woman and first African American to earn a master’s degree in science from the College of Hawaii.

Ball remarkably developed a treatment for leprosy, but she passed away shortly after.

Arthur Dean, chair of the College of Hawaii’s chemistry department, took over the project, and renamed Ball’s method to the “Dean Method,” never crediting Ball for her work.

https://theconversation.com/a-young-black-scientist-discovered-a-pivotal-leprosy-treatment-in-the-1920s-but-an-older-colleague-took-the-credit-224922
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@TheConversationUS @blackmastodon This story has some more details about Ball’s work at the University of Hawaii, including the posthumous attribution of the “Ball Method” for treating Hansen’s disease (leprosy) https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2024/02/29/alice-ball-celebrated-2024/

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