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Category: Get to Know a Scientist

Photo of geneticist Michelle T. Juarez Genetics and Heredity Get to Know a Scientist STEM Education 

Get to Know a Scientist: Geneticist Michelle T. Juarez

October 28, 2022October 26, 2022 Science Connectedgenetics, science education, Women in STEM

A geneticist is a type of biologist who studies genes. Let’s hear from Michelle T. Juarez, who helps teach the next generation of scientists!

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Rebecca Ewald, Marketing and Customer Insights Network Lead Get to Know a Scientist STEM Education 

Get to Know a Scientist: Marketing Lead Rebecca Ewald

October 19, 2022October 20, 2022 Science Connectedbiology, healthcare, marketing, Women in STEM

An education in STEM can prepare you for many kinds of careers—just ask Marketing and Customer Insights Network Lead Rebecca Ewald!

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Biologist Dr. Jamie Newman Biology Get to Know a Scientist 

Get to Know a Scientist: Biologist Dr. Jamie Newman

September 9, 2022September 12, 2022 Science Connectedbiology, women in science, Women in STEM

A biologist studies living things: how their internal processes work, how they evolved, how they relate to their environment, and more! Introducing Dr. Jamie Newman, who tells us about herself and her career.

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Dr. Dinesh Medipally, Biophysicist Biology Genetics and Heredity Get to Know a Scientist 

Meet a Biophysicist: Dr. Dinesh Medipally

March 21, 2022March 22, 2022 Science Connectedbiophysics, cancer, disease

A biophysicist studies chemical and physical principles of living things and of biological processes, such as cell development and disease.

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Dr. Pernille Bülow: neurophysiology Get to Know a Scientist Neuroscience 

Neurophysiology Product Specialist Dr. Pernille Bülow

December 8, 2021December 8, 2021 Science Connectedneurophysiology, STEM careers, Women in STEM

Pernille Bülow has a PhD in Neuroscience and currently works as a Product Specialist on neurophysiology at iMotions. Learn about her career!

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Becoming a Beekeeper Environment Get to Know a Scientist Zoology 

Bee-coming a Beekeeper: An Interview with Andy Zaayenga

August 23, 2021August 23, 2021 Science Connectedbees, pollinators

Bees and other pollinators are part of our agricultural processes and, indeed, life on earth. Find out how and why Andy became a beekeeper.

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citizen science games Citizen Science Get to Know a Scientist 

Citizen Science Games Mix Design with Discovery

May 14, 2021October 11, 2021 Science Connectedvideo games

Exclusive interview with Claire Baert about citizen science games. Claire has been working in the game industry for 10 years.

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Haotian Wang, Chemical Engineer Chemistry Engineering Get to Know a Scientist 

Get to Know a Scientist: Chemical Engineer Haotian Wang

May 4, 2021April 30, 2021 Science Connectedclimate change, energy

An interview with the chemical engineer developing new nanomaterials for clean energy, climate change mitigation, water treatment, and more.

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Get to Know a Scientist

April 28, 2021October 28, 2022 Science Connectedscientists, STEM careers

One of our favorite things to do is introduce our readers to a wide array of scientists and their work in our Get to Know a Scientist series.

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Astrophysicist Dr. Melinda Soares-Furtado is a NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has a BS in Physics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and PhD in Astrophysical Science from Princeton University. She works on detecting and characterizing stars in open clusters that have anomalous characteristics brought about by the ingestion of close-orbiting substellar companions. Astronomy and Astrophysics Get to Know a Scientist STEM Education 

Get to Know a Scientist: Astrophysicist Dr. Melinda Soares-Furtado

March 16, 2021March 18, 2022 Science Connectedastronomy, STEM careers, women in science, Women in STEM

An astrophysicist studies stars, planets, and other things in space. Introducing Dr. Melinda Soares-Furtado, who tells us about her career.

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Spotlight: Environment

A wheat field in the Mpika District, Muchinga Province, Zambia, showing symptoms of wheat blast during the outbreak of March 2018. Credit: Batiseba Tembo, Zambia Agriculture Research Institute; license CC by 4.0 Biology Botany Ecology Environment 

Genomics Takes On Crop Disease

June 6, 2023June 6, 2023 Science Connectedagriculture, crops, ecology, environment, genome, pathogens, plants
Genomics opens the way for scientists to track where and which plants are affected most by rapidly spreading pathogens.
Earth Day 2020 Environment 

Earth Day: Get Informed, Get Involved

April 21, 2023April 21, 2023 Science Connectedenvironmental health
Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22. Learn more and find out how to get involved in an Earth...
A stream filling a glass of water. Water quality may be headed for a rise as scientists work to develop new technology that uses bacteria to detect harmful heavy metals in water.

Water Quality Monitoring by Bacterial Biosensors

March 20, 2023March 14, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, heavy metals, water contamination, water pollution, water testing
People putting plastic bottles in recycling bin.

Bacteria Has Natural Capacity to Recycle Plastics

March 10, 2023March 9, 2023 Science Connectedbacteria, plastic pollution, recycling
Researchers have developed a recycling system that can transform plastic waste and greenhouse gases into sustainable fuels and other valuable products–using just the energy from the sun. Image credit: University of Cambridge

Sunlight Powers Recycling of Carbon Dioxide and Plastic

February 15, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedbiofuel, carbon dioxide, plastic pollution, recycling, solar power
Brown algae are particularly widespread on rocky shores in temperate and cold latitudes and there absorb large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air worldwide. Credit: Hagen Buck-Wiese/Max Planck Institute For Marine Microbiology

How Brown Algae Mucus Combats Carbon Dioxide

February 10, 2023February 14, 2023 Science Connectedalgae, carbon dioxide, carbon fixing, climate change, seawater
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