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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 18 – Melanie Stegman, Biochemist, Founder of Molecular Jig Games
Interview with Melanie Stegman, Biochemistry PhD & Founder of Molecular Jig Games. Melanie Stegman, Ph.D., Founder and Creative Director of Molecular Jig Games is convinced that cellular biology is the greatest fantasy world ever and that biochemistry is an inherently fun puzzle. Molecular Jig makes games to teach the average human how cells work.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 17 – Colleen Layman, SWE President-Elect, Water Resources Environmental Engineer
Interview with Colleen Layman, who is President-Elect of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Vice President and Resources Business Group Water Principal at HDR.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 16 – Natalie Silvanovich, Information Security Engineer at Google
Interview with Natalie Silvanovich, who is an information security engineer on the Android Security Team at Google. Natalie enjoys hacking tamagotchis in her spare time.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 15 – Elizabeth Bierman, SWE President, Systems Engineer
Interview with Elizabeth Bierman, President of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Senior Project Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 14 – Kaitlyn Bunker, Electrical Engineer
Interview with Kaitlyn Bunker, who has a phd in electrical engineering from Michigan Tech and recently joined Rocky Mountain Institute. Kaitlyn is interested in microgrids and distributed renewable resources.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 13 – Pinshane Huang, Materials Research Scientist, Applied Physicist
Interview with Pinshane Huang, who has a phd in applied physics and is a postdoc at Columbia University in the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. She is a photographer for tiny things.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 12 – Alison Criscitiello, Glaciologist
Interview with Alison Criscitiello, a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary, as a glaciologist studying ice core chemistry.
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Announcing the Google CS Engagement Small Awards Program
Google has created the CS Engagement Small Grants Program to support educators teaching introductory computer science courses in reaching their engagement and retention goals. Unrestricted gifts of $5k will be given to selected applicants’ universities. All educators who are teaching CS1 and CS2 courses at the post-secondary level are encouraged to apply — applications will…
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National Math + Science Initiative Boosts College Readiness for More Than 13,000 Students Nationwide
Student enrollment in college-level math, science and English courses boosted by more than 50,000 in the 2013-2014 year due to the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI). NMSI, which is working in just 566 schools, also raised the number of Advanced Placement qualifying exam scores by more than 18,500 exams, representing 13,000 additional students who…
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 11 – Amanda Liesch, Soil Physics PhD Student
Interview with Amanda Liesch, Master Hole Digger, Queen of Soils and a Soil Physics PhD Student at North Carolina State University.