Physicist Nicholas Carrera helped governments figure out how to control the spread of nuclear weapons — technology with the power to do great damage. What technology — what machine or app — do you …
Noel Gurwick
“I am somebody who enjoys spending time tramping around in the woods,” says Ecosystem Biologist Noel Gurwick, an earth system scientist. Perhaps that’s part of the reason he’s interested in protecting …
Paul D. Brinkman
Historian of Science Paul D. Brinkman studies dinosaurs and the fossils of other very old creatures. He loves natural history museums like Chicago's Field Museum and North Carolina's Museum of Natural …
Paul Mirel
Paul Mirel builds devices that investigate the Big Bang. As a Systems Engineer at Wyle Information Systems, he does engineering work for the NASA PIPER (Primordial Inflation Polarization ExploreR) …
Peter O’Donnell Offenhartz
Physical Chemist Peter O’Donnell Offenhartz spends his summers on a small island off the coast of Maine. Knowing that he’s a scientist and creative problem-solver, people there come to him with …
Phoebe Romero
Raindrops, so many raindrops. . . and when they were harvested from roofs in Texas, environmental scientist Phoebe Romero calculated how many barrels of rainwater they would produce and how many …
Rachel Davidson
Civil Engineer Rachel Davidson uses math to predict how people will behave during a storm so that she can help cities prepare for natural disastors. What do you or your family do when the power …
Rachel Rothman
What’s the fastest speed you have traveled without leaving the ground? Even in a zooming car on the highway, most people never go faster than 60 or 70 miles per hour (mph). Imagine climbing into a …
Rae Wynn-Grant
Conservation Ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant studies carnivores. She traps bears in order to learn about them. Then she releases them back into the wild. What's the most dangerous animal you have seen? …
Renee Fatemi
“This is where you’re going to lose your grade point average,” warned Nuclear Physicist Renee Fatemi’s friends as she entered her junior year. “I loved literature and I loved religion and …
