Environmental Engineer Jerome D. McQueen designs systems to clean up pollution created by planes, factories, and other things that produce waste. What forms of pollution (in the air, soil, or …
Jill Venton
Have you worked with fruit flies in science class or spotted these very small insects flying around ripe bananas or other fruit? Imagine the size of a fruit fly’s brain. How would you measure …
John Hoogland
Have you ever crawled through a tunnel at the zoo and popped up through a hole in the ground, pretending you're a prairie dog? Real prairie dogs dig complex systems of underground tunnels. Their …
Jordan Ellenberg
Arithmetic Geometer Jordan Ellenberg is a mathematician. He teaches his college students how to create codes, using math. Have you ever made up a secret code and used it? How did it work? Who did …
Joslin A. Bennett
Ecologist Joslin A. Bennett's passion for the outdoors led to an accident. Not one to let that scare her away from what she loves most, Bennett studied emergency medicine to help other people who get …
Julia Lintern
Mechanical engineer Julia Lintern applies her creative powers to everything from puppets and clothing to cars and planes. These days, Lintern’s job is to make sure planes are safe, from take-off to …
Kent Teague
Immunologist Kent Teague grew up in the Ivory Coast, a country in west Africa. His father worked as a minister and his mother as a musician and librarian. Soon after they moved from Lausanne, …
Kevin Hurlock
Electrical engineer Kevin Hurlock spends a lot of his time thinking about how electronics break and how to fix them. He grew up in Jamaica, where the high humidity in the air meant that his father’s …
Laura Gooch
Every spring and fall, millions of birds migrate long distances across North America: song sparrows, oven-birds, common yellowthroats, black-and-white warblers. Some, like the black-poll warblers, …
Lauren Miller Simkins
Glacial Geologist Lauren Miller Simkins studies the sediment beneath Antarctica's ice. What's the coldest you've ever been? Where were you then? The Nathaniel B. Palmer ship is an …
