Making Waves: Memoir Of A Marine Botanist

At age eight Marilyn Harlin already knew she wanted to be a scientist. Throughout the peaks and valleys in her life-including widowhood when her husband fell off a mountain in Switzerland, and the challenges of raising two children on her own--she kept her eyes on her goal and eventually joined the faculty at the University of Rhode Island as its only female botany professor. Marilyn's mission in her career and into retirement has been to inspire youth, especially girls, to venture into the sciences. Making Waves is a memoir of a progressive life lived with passion....

• • Author: Marilyn Miler Harlin
• • Publisher: Friesenpress
• • Publication Date: Feb 27, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 224 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1460233646
• • ISBN-13: 9781460233641