Wendy C. Newstetter is a learning and cognition scientist with a significant impact on engineering education. She is currently the Assistant Dean for Educational Research and Innovation in the College of Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. During the past 20 years, she was embedded in the Biomedical Engineering department at Georgia Tech, where...
Are you thinking about applying to graduate or medical school in the next few years? If so, consider joining us for our next Tech-to-Grad panel discussion! Our last event took place September 15th, 2020. We had graduate student panelists share what they wish they had known when applying, as well as faculty and administration representatives who also...
Dr. Shruti Naik originally wanted to become an actress or standup comic, a far cry from her current role as Assistant Professor at the NYU Langone Medical Center. While watching a PBS documentary featuring prominent molecular biologist Dr. Bonnie Bassler, Naik became so enamored by her research about bacterial communication that she enrolled in...
This week’s WiSE Wednesday will highlight the late Argentine marine biologist, Irene Bernasconi. During her scientific career (spanning the years 1924 to 1984) she was considered to be Argentina’s leading echinoderm specialist. Best known for her work on sea stars in the Argentine sea, she also studied brittle stars and sea urchins. Over the...
This week we are featuring a Woman in Science without a Wikipedia page, but who is very notable in both her influence on Neuroscience as well as education, Laura Carruth. Laura Carruth is an Associate Professor at the Neuroscience Institute at Georgia State University. For education, she did her Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD at...
