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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 21 – Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist
Interview with Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist, soon to be Harvard PhD, also an artist. Didem is interested in understanding how animals grown. She combines tools in developmental genetics, comparative evo-devo, and fieldwork in fruit flies (Drosophila) to investigate how animals make organs of different sizes.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 20 – Pooja Chandrashekar, Founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS
Interview with Pooja Chandrashekar, Founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS. Pooja is currently a high school senior who founded ProjectCSGIRLS as a sophomore to address the gender gap in technology. ProjectCSGIRLS is a national youth-driven nonprofit which runs a national computer science competition, as well as workshops for middle school girls. This year ProjectCSGIRLS is also launching an international competition. Pooja speaks about her outreach work at conferences around the country, including O’Reilly Velocity New York Conference, the IEEE Women in Engineering International Leadership Conference, the Global Tech Women Voices Conference, and the STEM Symposium for the National Capital Region.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 19 – Courtney Thurston, 17 year old unmanned systems engineer
Interview with Courtney Thurston, 17 year old unmanned systems engineer. She recently interned at CERN and will be working as a propulsion intern for SpaceX this summer. Courtney also is working to make the technical fields more accessible, as a longtime editor of Wikipedia, co-founder of Magikstra, executive team member for ProjectCSGirls and as an Online Community Manager for The Scientista Foundation (among others!).
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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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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.