Immunologist Martha Zúñiga studies the ways our bodies fight illness. Last time you were sick, what were your symptoms? How did you get better? If someone tells you that you have a major …
Matthew Brennan
Virtual Experience Designer Matthew Brennan uses technology to help people travel through time and space…to see art. What superpower do you wish you had? What would you use it …
Michael Form
Small electronic controllers show up in many of the devices that we use every day, including some that you might not expect. Electrical engineer Michael Form designs small, energy-efficient circuits …
Nicholas Carrera
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
We are saddened to say that Peter O'Donnell Offenhartz has passed away. During his life, Physical Chemist Offenhartz worked on everything from short-wave radio to solar power. Even after his …
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 …
