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When Ayah Bdeir left for college, she had been dreaming of a creative playground that fell somewhere between the worlds of Inspector Gadget and Bill Nye the Science Guy. Instead, her days were filled with a lot of theory, textbooks, and very few chances to create anything with her own hands. But Ayah quickly learned …
Why is it that so many of us think of the things we do for fun and the things we do for school as two separate parts of who we are? Art and science. Hobbies and homework. But sometimes two parts that feel separate can come together in a way that is better than either …
Leana is passionate about the importance of public health, but she knows that serving health is about much more than what happens in the four walls of a hospital. And while she always enjoyed science, it was getting people the help they need – no matter who they were – that drew her to the world of medicine.
When a nurse hooks a syringe to a syringe pump, she isn’t thinking about the regulations and research it took to ensure a to save a life. When an expectant mother looks at an ultrasound, she isn’t thinking about connecting the circuits or programming the interface – she wants to see her baby. As a …
What would you do if you wanted to study someone’s behavior? Interview them? Maybe set up some cameras? What if you wanted to study a whole city of people instead? Or a whole country? How would you even get started? For computer scientist Dr. Nuria Oliver, taking on such unsolved problems means finding the right …
Dr. Roselin Rosario-Meléndez has always loved makeup, but even her younger self couldn’t have imagined that she would end up creating a best-selling lipstick as a chemist. She had never known a chemist, let alone heard of a cosmetic chemist. Being a scientist just didn’t cross her young mind. Finding her way to her career …
Dr. Jayshree Seth has a passion for searching out problems. As a Corporate Scientist for 3M, she has taken on everything from keeping diapers on wiggly babies to finding the perfect level of stickiness for a roll of packing tape. Image Credit : Jayshree Seth Jayshree even has 70 patents hanging on her wall to …
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What if the movement of far-away fish could create art in the room in front of you? What if the local rise and fall of pollution could control the flutters of a flock of mechanical butterflies? Artist Julie Freeman hasn’t just wondered these things. She’s created intricate works of art to find out. Julie’s art …
Laura Deaner loves computers. As the Chief Information Security Officer responsible for stopping hackers from attacking S&P Global, that’s hardly surprising. But getting to spend her days elbows deep in technology didn’t happen right away. She didn’t even get to peek inside a computer until college. Her knack for spotting weaknesses was an important start. …
Dr. Anne A. Madden wears many hats. Some of them are physical, like the statement hats with 3D-printed microbes she wears as science conversation starters. Some are metaphorical, like her shared roles as an industry scientist, academic researcher, and science communicator. Dr Madden in 4th grade. [Image Credit : Anne Madden] But whichever hat she …
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