Women in STEM - Pair of National Stamps

While in today’s Ireland more than half of university graduates are women, they remain under-represented in STEM. In response,
Ireland has developed many programmes to encourage girls and women to advance careers in STEM.

Our set of two stamps honours the incredible contributions of two women scientists, scholars, and advocates for STEM.

Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell is an astrophysicist. She discovered the first radio pulsars – one of the most important
astronomical discoveries of the 20th century – as a postgraduate student in 1967. Since then, Professor Bell Burnell has studied the sky in
almost every region of the electromagnetic spectrum. Among the many awards she has received for her research, contributions
to academia, public engagement, and leadership in science is the Royal Irish Academy’s 2023 Cunningham Medal.

Professor Aoife McLysaght, one of the world’s leading researchers in genetics, is Head of the Genetics Department at Trinity College
Dublin. Since 2003, she has led a research group focusing on Molecular Evolution. Recently, she was appointed Government Science
Advisor/Chair of the National Science Advice Forum, which provides cross-sectoral and multi-disciplinary science advice to the Government.

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