Sisters in STEM
Sisters of the Precious Blood, Dayton, OH
Sister Loretta Dauwe, pictured here teaching physics at Regina High School in 1973, was one of few women physicists working in high-energy physics research. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Purdue University in 1980 and was an associate professor at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Michigan in Flint. She was also a researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illinois. She ended her career as a tenured professor and the chair of the Computer Science, Engineering, Science, and Physics Departments at the University of Michigan in Flint.
