Meet 9 Baylor women who blazed new trails in the sciences & engineering
…ical school. She then spent the majority of her career studying the Epstein-Barr virus, which causes a variety of cancers, at a time when no one knew about viral genes that could account for cancerous growth. Eventually, she became known as one of the top virologists in the world. Dr. Helen Ligon essentially introduced computers to the Baylor campus in the early 1960s and developed Baylor’s first information systems courses. Ligon joined the Baylo…