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January 2, 2019
Written by Susan Knox Imagine making structures that bacteria synthesize with your own hands! For Abi Heuer, this is a reality. As a second year Ph.D. student in chemistry at...
October 23, 2018
Written by Susan Knox Sharif Kronemer is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Neuroscience Department at Yale University, as well as the Director of the Yale University branch...
April 5, 2018
For Chantanelle “Chani” Nava, her appreciation for the scientific method really “took off” in eighth grade.  She had entered into a bottle-rocket building competition that...
February 26, 2018
Written By: Malena Rice   Shannon Leslie, a third-year graduate student in Yale University’s Interdepartmental Neurobiology program, loves being a scientist because it...
January 24, 2018
Written by: Lily Zhao   To many, the night sky appears as just a dark void.  However, to Mr. Corbin, once a U.S. Naval Observatory Astronomer, the night sky revealed much...
October 25, 2017
Imagine traveling to Chile to use the observatory and spending free time with burros (donkeys) in the mountains. Munazza Alam, a second-year graduate student in the...
April 26, 2017
Holly Merta discovered her passion for advancing scientific knowledge and answering questions no one has answered before while in undergrad at the University of St. Thomas in...