Turning Challenges Into Lessons: Sky Eno [WIE From Around the World]

November 6, 2025 by Katianne Williams

Only a few years after earning her undergraduate degree from Wentworth Institute of Technology and her master’s degree from the University of Denver, Sky Eno has the résumé of someone who has cleared every hurdle: she leads two software development teams at a Fortune 100 firm, lectures at the University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston, and is completing a doctorate in strategic leadership at Liberty University.

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Ramya Thiagarajan: Helping Public Health Officials Track Mosquitoes

When the Zika virus reached Florida in 2015, public health teams faced a big challenge: more than fifty species of mosquitoes live in the state, but only a few, especially Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus, spread Zika. Public health officials employed the traditional monitoring methods: placing traps at select locations overnight and catching hundreds of mosquitoes. The next day, teams picked up the traps and identified a small sample under a microscope, searching for the subtle and unique morphological markers that distinguished dangerous species.

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