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Podcast: Women Over 70: Aging Reimagined
Episode: Beatrice (Bebe) Magee: Progress for Women in Science, Rowing and Music
Description: Imagine what it might have been like to be a serious female science student in the early 1960s
only to be barred from a doctoral program after receiving a masters. Bebe (Beatrice) Magee,
age 81, provides a glimpse into her early history. In 2007, Bebe retired as a Senior Scientist in
the College of Biological Sciences at the University of Minnesota. For more than 45 years, she
and her husband, Pete, collaborated on scientific research that led eventually to ground-
breaking work having implications for debilitated patients with potentially deadly infections. In<...