Category: About
Forever a scientist: How I found my career niche
– Julia Bates – “No Julia, you are still a scientist. You will always be a scientist”. Those were the words spoken by my mentor Professor Jenny Martin, as we sat drinking coffee in a sunny café in my hometown...
How Can We Help? Creating the Superwomen in Science Podcast
– Cordon Purcell & Nicole George – In the fall of 2016, we were both in our first year of grad school and living together in Montreal (Cordon was sleeping on a crappy air mattress in Nicole’s living room). As...
Academic dreams: they come and they go
– Bill Hinchen – Is it time I let go of the academic dream? I seem to have been battling with this question for several years now. For as long as I can remember, I wanted to do science — I mean proper...
Better Get Used to Me
– Taylor Richardson | High School Student | The Bolles School – Speech below was delivered at the 2017 March for Science in Washington, D.C. My name is Taylor Richardson, I live in Jacksonville, Florida where I attend The Bolles...
Discovering My Passion for Teaching
Jennifer Gatti - "My message to my students is simple: don’t be afraid to try new things and don’t get stuck doing something simply because you think it is what you are supposed to do. You never know where you...
Playing in the Dirt and Calling it Science
– By Stephanie Halmhofer | Bioarchaeologist – For some, the line from point A to point B is fairly straight. For others, it’s a zig-zag. I am definitely a zig-zagger. I didn’t find an easy, straightforward path into becoming a...
How To Be a Superstar With No Instructions
– Marguerite Matthews, PhD – . At 4 years old, I was sure I’d be a superstar! My father has endless video recordings of me prancing around, belting out my favorite songs or performing mundane tasks with Shakespearean theatrics. I was ready at a moment’s notice to...
Diffraction
– Rowena Fletcher-Wood | Programme Delivery Officer at Science Oxford – The story below by Rowena was originally published in 2014 through the Story Collider. You can listen or read it below! When I was eighteen, I loved school and I loved...
NPR: An Unstoppable Scientist
– Published by Michaeleen Doucleff on NPR on June 20, 2017 – “Two years ago, Eqbal Dauqan was going to work in the morning as usual. She’s a biochemistry professor. And was driving on the freeway, when suddenly: “I felt...
Watch Your Steps!
– by Fanuel Muindi – How many steps do you take in a day? We take so many of them every day (around 6000 or so) without a care. For many of us, the focus is on our destinations. Spend...
Making My Way from Mountains to Mud: Part 3
– by Robin McLachlan – We teach school children that science is inaccessible and scientists are socially inept. Crazy scientists hide behind lab benches. They are disguised beneath white coats and thick glasses. Their hair is disheveled, their motivations shady, their...
The Courage to Say No
by William Yakah | Undergraduate Student (Neuroscience) | Michigan State University | Like many others in middle school, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to be in the future. In 6th grade, my class had a group of college students talk...
Why I Sci
by Natalie Hamer | Biomedical Science Student at Newcastle University | My favorite question has always been ‘why?’ As a child, this question frustrated my mother to no end. I asked her a million questions, and interrogated all of her answers....
A Ride of a Lifetime
by John Kropowensky | Curriculum Coordinator at Harvard University | The relationship I have had with science has been one of many ups and downs, a roller coaster ride speeding up, stopping suddenly, and revealing the beautiful world at its peak....
Discovering my identity as a scientist
by Tyler A. Allen | NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine | My journey into science was a seemingly unexpected yet inevitable one. I am the first person in my family to venture into the field of science as a...
Ordinary Folks Doing Extraordinary Things
by David Denlinger | Department of Biology | Utah State University Everyday when we wake up, whether we recognize it or not, our lives are inspired by science: not being crippled by polio or smallpox, the food we eat, the vehicles...
The words that changed my life
– Lia Paola Zambetti – Senior Project Officer |Research Development and Collaboration |The University of Sydney On a dull Saturday morning in the lab, I heard the words that changed my life. I had just finished changing the medium for...
Take a Chance On Me
by Jessica Okoro | TEDxLeicester Jessica Okoro the founder and director of BeScience STEM. Their mission is to “bring STEM to communities that do not currently have the opportunity to experience different aspects of STEM and to explore career choices, explore...
From Grandma’s Backyard to the Bench
Rodolfo Jimenez My parents were so young when they had me. They both had to put school on hold in order to provide for their new family. Because of my parents’ varying work schedules, my grandmother had a big role...
Making My Way from Mountains to Mud: Part 2
– Robin McLachlan – <> In Part 1 of this journey, I bumbled down into Crystal Cave, the rocky heart of Sequoia National Park, where my love for geology was ignited. But if this fiery relationship started way up in...
Books and family: My path towards the world of science
Dinner table discussions centered around political and economic analysis of world events but most importantly the future of the African continent.
Finding a different way to make an impact
by Sharon Briggs | Senior Scientist at Helix I can remember the day I decided I wanted a career in genetics. I was 17 years old sitting in my human anatomy-physiology class learning about sickle cell anemia. It blew my mind...
I always thought I wanted to be a scientist
– Michelle Dookwah – Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Georgia I always thought I wanted to be a scientist, yet I considered other careers at brief points in my life. When I was really young, I wanted to...
Finding the Strength to Succeed
– Ashley Taylor – 5th Year PhD Candidate | Department of Chemistry | Louisiana State University Science was my first love because my parents also loved science. They made sure my siblings and I were introduced to science fairs, science...
Making My Way from Mountains to Mud: Part 1
– Robin McLachlan – Graduate Student | University of Washington | Oceanography | Sediment Dynamics Group <> How did I make my way from mountains to mud? Well, I had just graduated high school and was celebrating my last summer before starting...
From engrams to psychiatric disorders and back
– Steve Ramirez – – Principal Investigator | Center for Brain Science| Harvard University – I‘m often asked how I got into neuroscience, so here’s the story. In college, I was one of those students who loved every subject, from...
A rollercoaster ride to finding my passion in computer science
– Ruth Agbaji – CEO & Founder at TheGradSpark I grew up in an academic environment. My father was into biochemistry research and my mom was a chemistry professor. They were – and still are – forward thinking people. As...