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7/ Upon her death in 1964, The Pittsburgh Press described her as "a relentless, tenacious watchdog of the City's purse strings" who "probably attended more budget sessions over the years than anyone else in Pittsburgh either in or out of government".
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6/ He was subsequently convicted in 1932, which resulted in a six-month prison sentence.
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5/ In addition, she collaborated with her sister, Lucy Kennedy Miller, to uncover Pittsburgh city government corruption. Their investigation led to Mayor Charles H. Kline's indictment by a grand jury on forty-eight counts of malfeasance.
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4/ It was later renamed as the Equal Franchise Federation of Western Pennsylvania and then the Allegheny County League of Women Voters. She held the position of president of the Allegheny County League of Women Votersfrom the early 1920s until the time of her death in 1964.
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3/ Partnering with her sister, Lucy Kennedy Miller (1880–1962), and Jennie Bradley Roessing, Mary E. Bakewell, Hannah J. Patterson, and Mary Flinn Lawrence during the early 1900s, she helped to found the Allegheny County Equal Rights Association.
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2/ A 1908 graduate of the Winchester Thurston School in Pittsburgh, she studied economics and political science at Vassar College, graduating in 1912.
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1/ Eliza Kennedy Smith (December 11, 1889 – October 23, 1964), also known as Mrs. R. Templeton Smith, was a 20th-century American suffragist, civic activist, and government reformer in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. #WomanToday
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5/ Brunkow worked in industry research in the Seattle area at Celltech R&D in Bothell, Washington, which is where she and Fred Ramsdell performed their Nobel Prize-winning work on FOXP3. She later became senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle.
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4/ Her doctoral dissertation was titled Expression and function of the H19 gene in transgenic mice (1991).
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3/ Brunkow received a Bachelor of Science with a major in molecular and cellular biology from the University of Washington in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy in molecular biology from Princeton University in 1991. Her advisor was Shirley M. Tilghman.
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2/ In 2025, she was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for their work in peripheral immune tolerance.
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1/ Mary Elizabeth Brunkow (born 1961) is an American molecular biologist and immunologist. She is known for co-identifying the gene later named FOXP3 as the cause of the scurfy mouse phenotype, a finding that became foundational for modern regulatory T cell biology. #WomanToday
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35/ Posthumously, she was inducted in the inaugural group of women into the Arkansas Women's Hall of Fame in 2015.

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34/ In 2006, she was jointly awarded, along with William Lipe, and McGimsey, the Conservation and Heritage Management Award from the Archaeological Institute of America for their national and international contributions to archaeology.
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33/ Davis and Charles R. McGimsey were the first honorees and co-recipients of an award named in their honor by the Register of Professional Archaeologists for Distinguished Service.
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32/ In 1994, the Society of Professional Archaeologists honored her with the Seiberling Award for public service and the Society for American Archaeology presented her with the Distinguished Service Award for Excellence in Cultural Resource Management.
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31/ In 1987, Rollins College presented Davis with an honorary doctorate and in 1996 recognized her with their Distinguished Alumna Award.
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30/ During her lifetime, she served on the boards of numerous state, regional, national and international preservation and archaeological organizations.
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29/ She retired in 1999 from the University of Arkansas as a full professor and created an endowment, the Davis Internship in Public Archeology, to assist students in earning graduate degrees in anthropology.
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28/ ...teach basic professional skills to enthusiasts. In 1995, Davis was appointed to serve on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee by President Bill Clinton and served for six years.
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27/ From 1974–1991, she taught graduate courses on public archaeology and led the logistics, including organizing field excavation, laboratory processing, seminars and site surveys, for the Arkansas Training Program for Avocational Archaeologists to ...
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26/ ... to call in experts before digging would not "have happened without Hester", he went on to call her a "national treasure".

Beginning in 1965, Davis served as the editor of The Arkansas Archeologist, a post she held until 2008.
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25/ Don D. Fowler, one-time president of the Society for American Archaeology stated that the laws requiring government agencies to investigate whether a construction project might harm archaeological sites and ...
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