For much of Cindy Lee Van Dover's professional life, she has been a pioneer...In 1990, she became the first woman with a license to pilot an Alvin...She was named the first woman to direct the Duke University Marine Laboratory here.
You can read the rest of the interview over at The New York Times.
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