The Whitewater controversy, Whitewater scandal, or simply Whitewater, was an American political controversy of the 1990s. It began with an investigation into the real estate investments of Bill and Hillary Clinton and their associates, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, in the Whitewater Development Corporation. This failed business venture was incorporated in 1979 with the purpose of developing vacation properties on land along the White River near Flippin, Arkansas.
Helena Ann Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, QC, FRSA, HonFRSE is a British barrister, broadcaster, and Labour member of the House of Lords. She served as Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford from 2011 to 2018.
Telithromycin is the first ketolide antibiotic to enter clinical use and is sold under the brand name of Ketek. It is used to treat community acquired pneumonia of mild to moderate severity. After significant safety concerns, the US Food and Drug Administration sharply curtailed the approved uses of the drug in early 2007.
Celia Diana Savile Imrie is an English actress. She is known for her television roles with Victoria Wood, including in the spoof soap opera sketches Acorn Antiques (1985–87) and the sitcom Dinnerladies (1998–2000). She won the 2006 Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for reprising her role in Acorn Antiques: The Musical!
Tenley Emma Albright is an American former figure skater and surgeon. She is the 1956 Olympic champion, the 1952 Olympic silver medalist, the 1953 and 1955 World Champion, the 1953 and 1955 North American champion, and the 1952–1956 U.S. national champion. Albright is also a graduate of Harvard Medical School. In 2015, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Kerryn Lyndel Phelps is an Australian medical practitioner and politician. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Australian Medical Association (AMA). In 2003, she was awarded the Centenary Medal for services to health and medicine. In 2011 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her service to medicine, particularly through leadership roles with the AMA, education and community health, and as a general practitioner. She is Conjoint Professor in the National Institute of Complementary Medicine at the Western Sydney University.
The United States President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) is a council, chartered in each administration with a broad mandate to advise the President on science and technology. The current PCAST was established by Executive Order 13226 on September 30, 2001, by President George W. Bush, and was most recently re-chartered by President Obama's April 21, 2010, Executive Order 13539.
Dame Ruth Muldoon Silver, is a British academic administrator and promoter of education policy. She was Principal of Lewisham College for 17 years until 2009, was chair of the Working Men's College governing board from 2002-05. In 2010, she became the chair of The Learning and Skills Improvement Service (LSIS), a public body for Further Education and skills development.
Gertrude Tumpel-Gugerell is an Austrian economist, former vice-governor of the Austrian central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank (1998–2003) and former member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. She is a member of the Council of the University of Leoben.
The Kibble Literary Awards comprise two awards — the Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established Australian female writer, and the Dobbie Literary Award, which is for a first published work by a female writer. The Awards recognise the works of women writers of fiction or non-fiction classified as 'life writing'. This includes novels, autobiographies, biographies, literature and any writing with a strong personal element.
Susan Shabangu is a South African politician who has been a member of parliament representing the African National Congress since May 1994. She currently holds the position of Minister of Social Development. She previously served as the inaugural Minister of Women in the Presidency, created by President Jacob Zuma in May 2014. She was the Minister of Mining from 2009 to 2014.
Ann L. McLane Kuster is an American politician, author, and attorney who has been the U.S. Representative for New Hampshire's 2nd congressional district, elected in 2012. A lobbyist and non-profit consultant from Hopkinton, New Hampshire, Kuster is a Democrat.
Sylvia May Payne was one of the pioneers of psychoanalysis in the United Kingdom.
Dr Marion Gilchrist was the first female graduate of the University of Glasgow; the first woman to qualify in medicine from a Scottish university; and a leading activist in the Women's suffrage Movement in Scotland. In memorial of her and her achievements she has a public park and a car park named in her honour in her native Bothwell.
Susan Dentzer an American health care and health policy journalist. She is the president and chief executive officer of the Network for Excellence in Health Innovation (NEHI). Prior to NEHI she served as is the senior policy adviser for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She was the editor-in-chief of the journal Health Affairs.
Joseph "Joe" Berrios is a Democratic politician who was the Assessor and Chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party of Cook County, Illinois, as well as a registered Illinois state government lobbyist. He was the first Hispanic American to serve in the Illinois General Assembly and the first and only Hispanic American to chair the Cook County Democratic Party. He was a Commissioner on the Cook County Board of Review, a property tax assessment appeal panel. He was also a commissioner on the Cook County Board of Review, a property tax assessment appeal panel.
Susan Helen Dadakis Horn is an American biostatistician. She is the senior scientist at the Institute for Clinical Outcomes Research, a professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Health Services Innovation and Research Program, and an affiliate faculty member at Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences. She is known for her work in developing computational statistical models for clinicians to use in-practice to improve therapy results.
Patricia Anne Acquaviva Gabow is an American academic physician, medical researcher, healthcare executive, and consultant. Specializing in nephrology, she began lecturing in the department of medicine, division of renal diseases, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine in 1973, advancing to a full professorship in 1987; she is presently Professor Emerita. She was the principal investigator on the National Institutes of Health Human Polycystic Kidney Disease research grant which ran from 1985 to 1999. She served for two decades as CEO of Denver Health, an integrated public healthcare system in Denver, Colorado, where she implemented numerous business-based systems to streamline operations, improve patient care, and recognize cost savings. In particular, her introduction of the "lean" quality-improvement system, based on the Toyota Production System, earned her national recognition. She is the author of more than 150 articles and book chapters, and has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching, physician care, and leadership. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2004.
Rachel Carson is an outdoor sculpture depicting the biologist, conservationist, and author of the same name by David Lewis, installed on July 14, 2013 in Waterfront Park in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States.
