Science


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Lesley Dupigny-Giroux is a professor of geography and geoscience at the University of Vermont. As a climatologist, she focuses on hydroclimatic natural hazards — climate hazards associated with the distribution of water, like floods or droughts — as well as other severe weather hazards. She can offer insight into climate literacy and climate change.

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Added 01/31/23 | Location: Alabama | Subjects:

Sharlene Newman is a cognitive neuroscientist and psychology professor at the University of Alabama. She uses magnetic resonance imaging to analyze human neurocognition.

Added 05/02/22 | Location: Florida, North Dakota | Subjects: ,

Pablo de León is the director of the Human Spaceflight Laboratory at the University of North Dakota, where he is also a professor and chair of the space studies department. He has been working in the space field for three decades as an aerospace engineer in his native Argentina and in the United States.

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Vashan Wright is an assistant professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a guest investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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Added 03/04/22 | Location: U.K. | Subjects: , ,

Dr. Navaratnam (Theeb) Partheeban is a clinical veterinarian at Westpoint Farm Vets in Chelmsford, U.K., and the co-founder of the British Veterinary Ethnicity and Diversity Society (BVEDS).

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Added 02/18/22 | Location: Maryland | Subjects: , ,

Titi Shodiya is an engineer, content creator and scientific auditor. She co-hosts the podcast Dope Labs and is the deputy quality manager at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Added 02/18/22 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Desiré Whitmore, aka LASERchick, is a senior physics educator at Exploratorium, a public hands-on learning laboratory in San Francisco where she leads curriculum development workshops for middle and high school teachers.

Added 07/13/21 | Location: West Virginia | Subjects: ,

Piyush Mehta is an assistant professor of aerospace engineering and space systems at the Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources at West Virginia University. He’s an expert in astrodynamics, machine learning and space weather — conditions caused by solar winds, explosions on the sun’s surface, and other solar phenomena.

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Jessica Ware is an entomologist and associate curator in invertebrate zoology at the American Museum of Natural History, where she is also an assistant professor at the Richard Gilder Graduate

Added 02/10/21 | Location: New Jersey, Pennsylvania | Subjects: ,

Kishana Taylor is a postdoctoral researcher of virology at Carnegie Mellon University and the co-founder and president of the Black Microbiologists Association.

Updated 05/01/23 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Sarah Aarons is an earth scientist and assistant professor in the Geosciences Research Division of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.

Updated 10/14/20 | Location: Pennsylvania | Subjects: ,

Jason Hong is a professor at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, where he is part of the Human Computer Interaction Institute.

Updated 02/20/23 | Location: Montana | Subjects: ,

Philip Higuera is a professor in the Department of Ecosystem and Conservation Sciences at the University of Montana, where he leads the PaleoEcology and Fire Ecology Lab.

Added 08/27/20 | Location: Washington | Subjects: ,

Ernesto Alvarado is a research associate professor of wildland fire sciences in the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences at the University of Washington.

Updated 01/15/21 | Location: Illinois | Subjects:

Angela Anandappa is the founding executive director of the nonprofit Alliance for Advanced Sanitation, an organization focused on improving food safety.

Updated 04/12/21 | Location: Georgia | Subjects:

Aditi Pai is a professor of biology and co-director of the Teaching Resource and Research Center at Spelman College.

Added 08/15/18 | Location: Texas | Subjects: ,

Moriba Jah is an associate professor of aerospace engineering and engineering mechanics at the University of Texas, Austin.

Added 08/01/18 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects: ,

César A. Hidalgo leads the Collective Learning group at the MIT Media Lab and is an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT.

Updated 10/01/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Kiho Kim is a professor of environmental science at American University.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: Puerto Rico | Subjects:

Ada Monzón is the WAPA-TV chief meteorologist for Noticentro al Amanecer, Univision Radio (WKAQ 580 am) and the Noticel digital platform.

Updated 04/05/21 | Location: New Hampshire | Subjects:

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an assistant professor of physics and a core faculty member in women’s studies at the University of New Hampshire.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: Washington | Subjects: ,

Jay Shendure is a professor of genome sciences at the University of Washington.

Updated 04/26/21 | Location: New York | Subjects: ,

Nicole Hernandez Hammer is the environmental scientist at UPROSE.

Updated 04/19/21 | Location: Arizona | Subjects:

Gurtina Besla is an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona.

Updated 04/10/21 | Location: California | Subjects:

Paloma Vargas is an assistant professor of biology, director of Hispanic-Serving Institute Initiatives and co-director of ALLIES in STEM at California Lutheran University.

Updated 04/20/21 | Location: California, Colorado | Subjects: ,

Erika Zavaleta is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Updated 04/13/21 | Location: Washington, D.C. | Subjects: ,

Esmeralda Casas-Silva is a scientific program manager at the National Cancer Institute, where she leads the Cancer Moonshot Biobank project.

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Updated 10/01/21 | Location: California | Subjects: ,

Mariel Vazquez is a professor of mathematics and of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of California, Davis.

Updated 02/25/21 | Location: Rhode Island | Subjects: ,

Stephon Alexander is a musician and professor of physics and astronomy at Brown University.

Updated 04/10/21 | Location: Massachusetts | Subjects:

Kristala L. Jones Prather is Arthur D. Little Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Updated 04/21/21 | Location: New York | Subjects: ,

Dr. Wendy Chung is a clinical and molecular geneticist and the Kennedy Family Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University.

Updated 04/20/21 | Location: Virginia | Subjects: ,

Pearl Chiu is an associate professor at Fralin Biomedical Research Institute, the department of psychology and the department of psychiatry and behavioral medicine at Virginia Tech University.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: Florida | Subjects:

Anthony Brickhouse is an associate professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s department of applied aviation sciences. He is an expert in aviation and aerospace accidents and safety.

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Nalini Nadkarni is a professor of biology at the University of Utah.

Updated 04/21/21 | Location: Connecticut | Subjects: ,

Ainissa Ramirez is a science evangelist.

Updated 02/20/23 | Location: North Carolina | Subjects: ,

Nita Farahany is the Robinson O. Everett Professor of Law at Duke University, the founding director of Duke Science & Society and principal investigator of SLAP Lab.

Updated 04/15/21 | Location: California | Subjects: , ,

Amir Muhsin Abo-Shaeer is an American teacher and mechanical engineer. In 2001, during his first year of teaching, he established the Dos Pueblos Engineering Academy (DPEA) on the Dos Pueblos High School campus.

Updated 01/17/21 | Location: Illinois | Subjects: , ,

Danielle Lee is an assistant professor of biology at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, and a self-described hip-hop maven and outreach scientist who writes about urban ecology and biology.

Updated 12/11/21 | Location: Arizona | Subjects: ,

Lekelia “Kiki” Jenkins is a senior sustainability scientist and associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University.