OUR GOAL
Our main aim is to make it easy to find inspiring and thought-provoking narratives in science by publishing, storing, and organizing within a searchable online database stories behind the science from formal and informal scientists around the world.
OUR WHY
We are surrounded by so many stories in science. Stories of success, failure, fear, discovery, serendipity, collaboration, separation, inspiration, travels, mentorship, career transitions, and so much more. These 'human elements' behind the science are mostly untold especially within the published scientific literature. We believe these science stories provide an unchartered avenue for study, exploration, and engagement within scientific community, the public, and the next generation. We believe in the power of unspoken human stories in science to teach, inspire, engage, connect, and build new bridges of understanding between science and society.
OUR STORY
The Stories in Science™ project was created in late 2016 by Stanford University grad school friends Fanuel Muindi and Jessica W. Tsai who asked a simple question: what is the nature of the human experience with science? In those discussions, the journal was born within the Muindi Lab at the Stem Advocacy Institute (SAi) which is a non-profit incubator that provides support to scholars and practitioners to enable and accelerate the building of new studies, tools, and programs that strengthen the networks of access between science and the broader publics. The journal is currently supported by members of the Muindi Lab at SAi.
