Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!
Today is International Women and Girls in Science Day!
I'm so grateful that I get to work with an extraordinary team of female scientists at UCL. I brought donuts to our group meeting today to celebrate and made my labmates take a picture with me afterward. (They're all so kind to humor me...)
Women in STEM have been incredibly influential on my path to this PhD.
My first science teacher empowered me and the other students in her classroom to be curious and creative. She let me write a song about Venus for my fourth grade solar system project.
In high school, I had three outstanding science teachers. One of them was so bold as to ask me "What the hell are you doing?" while dissecting a shark in my sophomore biology class (in a Catholic school). This moment would not only teach me that mistakes lead to knowledge, but it would inspire me to write a speech that would later qualify me for the Ohio High School Speech League state tournament.
In undergrad, I met so many talented female scientists and engineers. I'm especially grateful to the post-doc (now a professor at Columbia) who taught me the ins and outs of research life, the lab manager who convinced me that grad school was an option, and the project manager who never gave up on me, even when I was giving up on myself.
Now that I'm working on my doctorate, I'm excited to interact with so many more inspiring female scientists and, hopefully, to inspire a few potential female scientists.
Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!
I'm so grateful that I get to work with an extraordinary team of female scientists at UCL. I brought donuts to our group meeting today to celebrate and made my labmates take a picture with me afterward. (They're all so kind to humor me...)
Women in STEM have been incredibly influential on my path to this PhD.
My first science teacher empowered me and the other students in her classroom to be curious and creative. She let me write a song about Venus for my fourth grade solar system project.
In high school, I had three outstanding science teachers. One of them was so bold as to ask me "What the hell are you doing?" while dissecting a shark in my sophomore biology class (in a Catholic school). This moment would not only teach me that mistakes lead to knowledge, but it would inspire me to write a speech that would later qualify me for the Ohio High School Speech League state tournament.
In undergrad, I met so many talented female scientists and engineers. I'm especially grateful to the post-doc (now a professor at Columbia) who taught me the ins and outs of research life, the lab manager who convinced me that grad school was an option, and the project manager who never gave up on me, even when I was giving up on myself.
Now that I'm working on my doctorate, I'm excited to interact with so many more inspiring female scientists and, hopefully, to inspire a few potential female scientists.
Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day!
