Women in Science

Carine Clark is the President and CEO of MaritzCX. She has spent years building successful software companies,as former Pres. and CEO of Allegiance Software, SVP and CMO for Symantec, and an executive at Altiris, and Novell. She has received numerous awards during that time in recognition of her contributions. Her leadership at Altiris helped establish it as one of the fastest growing technology companies in the world.

One of the earliest female doctors in Utah. After graduating from the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania, Shipp returned to Salt Lake City and opened a School of Obstetrics and Nursing where she would eventually train 500 women as midwives and nurses. She also delivered more than 6,000 babies. In

Esme Anderson is a family nurse practitioner providing health care to students, faculty, and staff at the UVU Health Center. She also runs her own clinic, Athena Women’s Clinic. Esme holds a Master of Science and family nurse practitioner from the University of Utah; her early training began at the Florence

First LDS woman doctor to receive a degree in medicine. In 1873, Penrose was married and a mother of four children when Brigham Young pled from the pulpit for more women to study medicine. Penrose heeded the call, leaving her family to attend medical school in New York and later

Genevieve Atwood is the former Utah State Geologist, who was a key player in stabilizing the Thistle slide in 1980 helping to prevent any additional damage. She is a prominent Utah scientist who served six years in Utah House of Representatives. Atwood has also served on a number of policy

Letitia Archuleta earned a bachelor’s degree in biology, a master’s in public health, and a doctorate degree in medicine. Her career has focused on aviation medicine. She has served on many local and national boards and committees, while also placing strong emphasis on family and making connections with others to

Pioneer, doctor, prominent suffragist, author of Utah’s sanitation laws, initiator and first member of the State Board of Health, founder of first nursing school in Utah Territory, and the first woman in the United States elected as a state senator. Raised in Salt Lake City, Cannon attended medical school at

Ruth Novak is a pioneer for women in the aerospace industry, eventually becoming vice-president and general manager of Hercules Aerospace. Since her retirement she has served on numerous boards and was one of the founders of the Utah Math-Science Network and Achievement Rewards for College Scientists (ARCS), which strives to

Sandra Rogers is the International Vice President at Brigham Young University. She has responsibility for the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies, the Ambassadorial Visits Program, and BYU’s student abroad programs. In addition, she oversees the university’s Division of Continuing Education. Dr. Rogers previously served as the associate academic

Dr. Toshiko Toyota-Okutsu was a pioneer in women’s medicine. She was one of the first Asian female physicians in Utah. She attended medical school in Philadelphia during World War II while her Japanese American family was interned at a Japanese internment camp–Minidoka Rolocation Center in the Magic Valley area of

Vivian Lee earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard-Radcliffe college and received a Rhodes Scholarship to study Medical Engineering at Oxford University. She entered medical school at Harvard at the age of nineteen and graduated with honors. She completed her residency at Duke specializing in Diagnostic Radiology where she also served

Carine Clark

Ellis Reynolds Shipp

Esme Anderson

Esther Penrose

Genevieve Atwood

Letitia Archuleta

Martha Hughes Cannon

Ruth Novak

Sandra Rogers

Toshiko Toyota-Okutsu

Vivian Lee