Oct 6, 2021Evolution UnderwaterFlávia Petean (Evolutionary Biology Postdoc at National University of General San Martin || Argentina) “I grew up saying I want to study sharks. I don’t know when it started, it kind of just happened, and so I pursued it! I studied the evolution of so-called ‘cookie-cutter sharks’. They are small…Women In STEM2 min read
Sep 29, 2021Basketball analytics for the Lakers • Diana MaDiana Ma (Data Scientist, Los Angeles Lakers || CA USA) “I’ve always really liked basketball, but in high school I despised statistics. I remember blowing off studying for AP Stats because the exam coincided with the NBA playoffs, and obviously the NBA was much more important. …Women In STEM2 min read
Sep 15, 2021Volcanic Creations • Melissa Anne PfefferMelissa Anne Pfeffer (Atmospheric Volcanologist, Icelandic Meteorological Office || Iceland) “I wanted to work on air quality and air pollution and wanted to be outside as much as possible. So my mentor suggested I go into volcanic air pollution, and that was a great choice! We are currently having a volcanic eruption in Iceland, so I went out today, driving…Women In STEM2 min read
Aug 19, 2021Saving Arctic Ice • Dr. Leslie Field(Founder and CTO, Arctic Ice Project || CA USA) “I hadn’t really understood how bad climate change would become until seeing the movie ‘An Inconvenient Truth.’ It made me realize this was going to affect my kids, here in California, during their lifetime. It wasn’t going to be some far away impact. So I put ‘habitable planet’ on my…Women In STEM2 min read
Aug 4, 2021The Ecology of Island Fisheries • Dr. Karlisa Callwood(Director, Community Conservation Action Program, The Perry Institute for Marine Science || Bahamas) “I grew up in the Virgin Islands and spent my early childhood on the beach and in the water, developing a love for it very early on. …Women In STEM2 min read
Jul 21, 2021Three Careers in Tech • Lesley Matheson, PhD(Senior Data Product Owner, Vanguard || CA USA) “I was the only woman in 100 people at this research lab. I’ve been in completely male-dominated spaces my whole life. When you come of age in it, you notice it less — you’re conditioned to it. If you’re going to go into STEM, you need to build confidence and…Women In STEM2 min read
Jul 7, 2021The Science Behind Anxiety and Depression • Joyonna Gamble-George, PhD(Health Scientist & Policy Fellow, National Institutes of Health || MD USA) “I’m interested in the intersection of biomedical sciences with social and behavioral sciences. I’m trying to understand how psychological, social, and environmental factors interact in the development of mental health disorders like anxiety, depression, and addiction. Studying this goes all the way from research on stem cells — differentiating them…Women In STEM2 min read
Jul 1, 2021Digital Justice: Forensic Data Science • Georgia Arayess(PhD Student, Université de Lausanne & Crime Analyst, Swiss Police || Switzerland) “There is no universal consensus as to what forensic science represents. It’s interpreted as a science that serves justice, but also as the study of trace evidence. I specialize in digital trace evidence, in a subfield called traceology and crime analysis — essentially data science in a legal action framework…Women In STEM2 min read
Jun 2, 2021Algebras and Outreach • Dr. Jeanette Shakalli(Executive Director, Panamanian Foundation for the Promotion of Mathematics || Panama) “Imagine a structure that consists of a set of objects together with operations that satisfy certain characteristics — in math we call this an algebra. You want to understand the structure of your algebra, but sometimes it can be really, really difficult to understand. The idea behind my PhD was…Women In STEM2 min read
May 26, 2021Conserving Ancient Egyptian Art • Dominique Navarro(Epigraphic Artist, UChicago || IL USA) “I’ve always been interested in science and history, but my skills and training are as an artist. I started studying animals of modern, ancient, and prehistoric Egypt. …Women In STEM2 min read
