Tell us who you are, and what do you do? Here’s me in full steampunk-regalia on the airship I helped design while working at FIRST. When the airship was on, the rotors would spin and there’d be lights that kept score. I still can’t believe I got paid to do […]

Tell us who you are, and what do you do? I’m a nuclear physicist at Argonne National Laboratory, and I study the tiniest parts that make up everything in our visible world. These super-small building blocks are called quarks and gluons. They come together like puzzle pieces to form protons

A short bio about you and how you got where you are as a woman in STEM I grew up watching women in STEM on TV, like Dax on Star Trek and Scully on The X-Files. This taught me that women can do any job that men traditionally do. The

What does an Ecologist do? Ronnie Steinitz is an ecologist currently in the first year of her doctoral research for her PhD. She studies primate-community interactions in several monkey species in Kibale National Park, Uganda. She also collaborates with the US Geological Survey (USGS) to study bobcat prey preferences with

Ellen Crocker is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. She works on a wide range of research, education, and outreach related to threats to forests and sustainable management approaches. I love talking with people about their trees and how to

As a forensic DNA scientist, I tested evidence from crimes that occurred in the state of Maryland. I also got to research new techniques. Because I worked with evidence from crimes, a big part of my job involved going to court. I explained my tests and conclusions to lawyers, judges,

Hi, I’m Rachael! I’ve been studying insects for eight years, but I’ve been observing them for most of my life. As a kid, I spent summer evenings collecting June bugs, moths, caterpillars; whatever I could find. I kept my finds in mesh bug cages for a couple of hours, made

A huge part of what I do as a bat conservationist is sharing the world of bats with others!  I fell in love with bats while on night hikes during summer camp and got my first taste of bat conservation in 6th grade when I built and put up bat

I am a geologist and I teach at a college. Geology is a fascinating science, because it lets me think about rocks and minerals, volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, plate tectonics, climate change, and water. I grew up on an acre of land outside of south Detroit (Wayne, Michigan). As a kid,

Currently I work as an Ambassador Animals Keeper at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia. That means I care for, train, and monitor the health, wellbeing, and safety of the Zoo’s education animals. But my favorite part of my job is talking to the public about the importance of wildlife and the