Pinnacle Award Winner

摘要

When Ramona Graves left home to pursue a doctorate in petroleum engineering at Colorado School of Mines, her father gave her a hug and said, ‘Gee honey. I hope you find a husband this time.’ That was life in rural Nebraska in the mid-1970s. Graves' father was a farmer and rural mail carrier. His daughter was already unconventional, having left a career as a high school math and physics teacher to start a master's degree program in chemical engineering at the University of Nebraska-Omaha.