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Possum Point Players will present “Silent Sky” Friday to Sunday, June 4-6 and June 11-13. “Silent Sky” tells the true story of a pioneering woman astronomer who broke a sky-high glass ceiling as she pursued her love of studying and living her dream...

Madam starmaker When it comes to prestige in US education, few names carry more weight than Harvard University. Founded in 1636 in Cambridge, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, as New College, Harvard is the US’s oldest institution of higher education. People today might think of Harvard for its legal and business studies but from its early days it was known as a centre of scientific research. Less known is the role that women played at Harvard in developing astronomy as a science. Prominent ...