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Scientista Spotlights | Bringing you the faces and stories of real women in science, engineering, mathematics and medicine (STEMM)!

"I want to be like her!" How do you get to your dream job? Every month we interview a scientista who is doing it all, and share her story with you! Follow in her footsteps, explore what she loves about her STEM field, and get that inspiration you need. Know someone who should be featured? Send us an email telling us why she should be the next Scientista Spotlight!
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Scientista Spotlight: Meet Marina Masciale, Medical Student at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas

Marina Masciale
April 17, 2012
By Soyini Taylor


So you want to go to medical school? For this month's student spotlight, we interviewed a real-life medical student! Marina Masciale, originally from Corpus Christi, TX, is a first year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine. She has travelled to Argentina as a volunteer, is a certified EMT, and has travelled across Europe playing her ukulele. Let’s learn about what inspires and makes this medical scientista tick. 

Scientista Spotlight: Meet Evelyn Hu, Professor a Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering in SEAS 

Evelyn Hu
March 16, 2012
By Pin-Wen Wang

Evelyn Hu is a Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering at Harvard SEAS. She received her undergraduate degree in Physics fromBarnard College and continued to get her masters and Ph.D in Physics atColumbia University. Prior to teaching at Harvard, she was a member and supervisor at AT&T Bell Laboratories, and a distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering as well as Director of the Institute for Quantum Engineering and the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Her research group is currently focused on nanophotonics and material science geared toward energy and environmental technologies. For more information on Evelyn Hu, please visit http://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/ehu/?searchterm=evelyn%20hu . 

Student Spotlight - Meet Rediet Abebe! Mathematics Major, Harvard College '13

Rediet Abebe Harvard '13, Mathematics
Rediet Abebe, Harvard '13, Mathematics
February 03, 2012
By Katie Banks 

I began my interview with Rediet Abebe, a Harvard ’13 mathematics major, by asking when her interest in math started. Bad question. A better one would have been, were you ever not in love with math? She would have said no.

Abebe’s mother noticed her interest in mathematics by the time she was four and being home schooled for part of elementary school. She lived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, following the national curriculum through grade school and then attending the competitive-entrance International Community School, where she pursued an American curriculum and the International Baccalaureate. Her experiences there set the stage for her interest in math, but also for her mentoring and her interest in education.



Scientista Spotlight - Meet Julia Hirschberg! Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University

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Read our exclusive interview with Columbia Professor of Computer Science, Julia Hirschberg!

1. You previously earned a doctorate in Mexican history. What inspired you to change to computer science? 
I got interested in Computer Science when I tried to create a socio-economic map of the city I was studying, Puebla de los Angeles, founded in 1531-32.  I had incomplete information from notarial and baptismal records about the settlers, their land grants and sales, their relatives, and their friends, and wanted to find information about how the city grew and what the neighborhoods were over its first 30 years.  A friend in the CS Department at UMass Amherst told me that this sounded like an AI problem, and gave me some books to read.  Soon I had started programming in Lisp and by the end of that summer I was thinking about going into CS – it was so much fun.  After taking some more math courses at Smith I decided to give CS a try and took some courses at UPenn.  From there on it seemed like a natural thing to do.

Student Spotlight - Meet Sophie Wharton! BA in Psychology, Harvard Class of 2011

Sophie Wharton
December 01, 2011
By Kelsey Cruz

Two summers ago, Sophie Wharton and her father, Philip Wharton, completed a 100-mile, four-day adventure on the paved trails of Montreal and Quebec. Inspired by Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea, the father/daughter duo raised $28,000 for the Central Asia Institute (CAI), an organization that strives to empower communities of Central Asia, promote peace, and convey the importance of these activities globally through literacy and education. Motivated by the CAI and its mission statement, the Whartons rode for better education systems in Pakistan and Afghanistan…on unicycles.


Student Spotlight - Meet Isha Jain! Chemical and Physical Biology Major, Harvard 2012

PictureIsha Jain, Harvard 2012
10/20/2011
By Kelsey Cruz

Having won $100,000 by the age of 16, worked in a crystallography lab in Germany as a 20-year old, and graced the pages of Glamour as one of the magazine's top 10 college women of 2011, what's left for Isha Jain to conquer? Turns out, a lot.

While many would consider prestige a sufficient reason for attending Harvard University, Jain's college choice was primarily science-related: she eats, sleeps, and breathes biology.

“I chose Harvard because of the resources and labs that are at my disposal,” Jain explained. “Since my dream job is to have my own lab, I figured this would be the best place to start.”




Student Spotlight - Meet Amy Tai! Computer Science Major, Harvard 2013

PictureAmy Tai, Harvard 2013
9/11/2011
By Kelsey Cruz

“Computer science lets you tackle and solve seemingly abstract problems in a very concrete way,” said Amy Tai, a junior computer science major at Harvard University.  “There's also a certain beauty to the field of computer science because it's all built on the little electrons that are jumping around in the transistors in your processor.” 

Although she is currently studying computer science, Tai didn’t declare it as a major when she started at Harvard. During her freshman year, she took two computer science courses and fell in love. 



To Infinity and Beyond - Dr. Maria Zuber heads NASA's Mission GRAIL!

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Dr. Maria Zuber src: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/
9/11/2011
By Alexandra Perkins

Reach for the stars! Or how about the moon?  Dr. Maria Zuber, Professor of Geophysics at MIT, is doing just that.  Zuber is the principal investigator of NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission, or GRAIL, which will send two satellites to orbit the moon and measure the its gravitational field.   The mission is part of NASA's Discovery Program, and is scheduled to launch September 8th.  The resulting gravity measurements will increase understanding of the moon's interior structure and thermal evolution.  As principal investigator, Zuber is responsible for ensuring these objectives are met.



Student Spotlight— Meet Erika DeBenedictis, 2010 Science Talent Search Winner

PictureErika DeBenedictis
9/11/2011
By Shaira Bhanji
It’s not every 18-year-old girl who presents her research to a room full of NASA’s rocket scientists. Erika Alden DeBenedictis, a freshman at the California Institute of Technology, won the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS) for her innovative research on technologies that can minimize the amount of fuel a spacecraft uses. 

After hearing about the prize, researchers at JPL invited her to present her work as an invited speaker. “It was quite the experience,” she says, “about half the people I cited were in the room.” She presented a concept design for an autonomous spacecraft navigation system which would use the gravity and movement of planets, rather than fuel, to travel the solar system. This research project is the latest in a series of topics Erika addressed during middle and high school, ranging from simulating the formation of snowflakes to automatically identifying asteroids in astronomy images.


Student Spotlight - Meet Moira Forberg! Mechanical Engineering Major, Harvard 2011

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Moira Forberg, Harvard 2011
May 2011
By Ina Chen

Moira Forberg is a senior in Winthrop House concentrating in Mechanical Engineering. Here is an interview where she shared some of her experiences as an engineering concentrator at Harvard.






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