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Education

Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: Nunes Excels in New Environments

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For a long time, Dr. Sharon Nunes wanted to be a teacher, but when she graduated from high school and entered a teaching program, she quickly realized it wasn’t right for her. At a time when it felt like she was supposed to have her future figured out, she didn’t. A math teacher suggested a math major, but Nunes had no idea what she would do with a math degree—besides … [Read more...] about Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: Nunes Excels in New Environments

Innovating for Energy Efficiency: Savitz Looks Beyond Technology

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When Dr. Maxine Savitz headed to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for graduate school in 1958, she found life in Cambridge different than what she had known as an undergraduate chemistry major at Bryn Mawr College. The biggest change was sheer size: she went from a campus of 600 students to one of 6,000. But there were other differences. She had left the … [Read more...] about Innovating for Energy Efficiency: Savitz Looks Beyond Technology

WIE From Around the World: Applying Machine Learning to Health Care: Improving access for all

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Growing up in India, Dr. Jayashree Kalpathy-Cramer listened to her mother talk about her work as a physics professor who taught electronics, and it piqued her interest in engineering. She calls this a position of both privilege and good fortune, in that having a female role model so highly educated was not the norm. While at the time, the concept of education in India was seen … [Read more...] about WIE From Around the World: Applying Machine Learning to Health Care: Improving access for all

Women to Watch: Lifting Humanity From Serious Problems: Scaglione continually adapts and explores new research areas

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If it seems like Dr. Anna Scaglione has jumped on many different topics in her research, that was by design. “I appreciate people who have the patience to drill down and remain in one area for their scholarly career, but I’ve moved my research interests and work areas quite a bit to develop new expertise, hoping to bring a fresh point of view,” she says. “There may not seem to … [Read more...] about Women to Watch: Lifting Humanity From Serious Problems: Scaglione continually adapts and explores new research areas