Ida Stephens Owens

North Carolina · born or raised1939–2020

biochemist (1939-2020)

Born in Whiteville
Studied at Duke University
Studied at North Carolina Central University

physiologist, biochemist

Recorded without a firm citation

Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.

She taught me for only one course, but for some reason, I was always in her presence,” Owens said in a 2014 documentary about her life and career. “She had finished North Carolina Central herself and she had gone on to get her Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. The fact that she had gotten a Ph.D.—she became my role model.

but for some reason, I was always in her presence,

was interested in a more inclusive environment at Duke,” Owens said in 2015. “And I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.