Leprosy is a bacterial disease that affects the skin, nerves, eyes, and mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract. It is transmitted via droplets and causes skin lesions and loss of sensation in ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Feb. 28 marks Alice Ball Day and the end of Black History Month, which commemorates the achievements of the first African American woman to graduate from UH Manoa and ...
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Community leaders and students celebrated Black History Month Wednesday and Alice Augusta Ball, a black UH chemist who created a treatment for leprosy. Her discovery was ...
Hansen’s disease, also called leprosy, is treatable today – and that’s partly thanks to a curious tree and the work of a pioneering young scientist in the 1920s. Centuries prior to her discovery, ...
This article is part of the Black Monuments Project, which imagines a world that celebrates black heroes in 54 U.S. states and territories. Alice Ball is one of the most innovative hidden figures in ...
In 1915, an infection with leprosy (also called Hansen’s disease) often meant a death sentence. Patients were commonly sent into mandatory quarantine in “leper colonies,” never to return. Before the ...
Alice Ball (1892-1916) was an African American chemist who developed the “Ball Method,” the most effective treatment for leprosy during the early 20th century. She was born on July 24, 1892, in ...
There is a new park in Seattle. Officially opened earlier this summer, Alice Ball Park is a half-acre green space adjacent to the Greenwood Library. So, who is Alice Ball? She was a pioneer in many ...
Leprosy is a bacterial disease that affects the skin, nerves, eyes, and mucosal surfaces of the upper respiratory tract. It is transmitted via droplets and causes skin lesions and loss of sensation in ...
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