Featured Stories, MIT, MIT EAPS, MIT News, News | March 7, 2018
Storied Women of MIT: Eugenia Kalnay
Eugenia Kalnay (PhD ‘71) is a world-renowned meteorologist and the first woman to earn a PhD in Meteorology from MIT. Storied Women of MIT is a series of 60-second historical profiles of MIT faculty, students, researchers, and staff highlighting the role of women at the Institute from its founding to today.
Watch the other Storied Women of MIT at MIT Video Productions.
Learn more about another Storied Woman of MIT: Pauline Morrow Austin (PhD ’42) who joined MIT’s Weather Radar Research Project at its inception in 1946 and went on to direct the project from 1956-1979. Her pioneering work to interpret weather radar echoes laid the foundation for modern radar meteorology. Watch a video about her life and research.
