International Women’s Day

International Day of Women and Girls in Science Highlight: Lise Meitner

Sahaana Vijay Abstract As of October 2021, there are 441 operational nuclear reactors in roughly 30 nations.[1] These nuclear reactors  generate power through nuclear fission, which earned Otto Hahn, a German chemist, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944.[2] While the prize was unshared, Hahn did not discover nuclear fission alone; he and his long-term colleagues, physicist …

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Interview with Dr. Raga Krishnakumar

I recently had the chance to interview Dr. Raga Krishnakumar- a computational biologist with Sandia National Laboratories. Apart from studying genomics and bioinformatics, she mentors young scientists and is a passionate advocate for diversity in STEM. We spoke about her background, her experiences as a biologist, and her opinions on representation in STEM. Tell me …

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