ComSciCon 2013 Flagship Workshop Attendee

Leanna Heffner

Graduate Student, BU, Oceanography

Twelve years ago I began my career in science research as an undergraduate at Vassar College, and since then I have continuously studied the ecological...

Jareth Holt

Graduate Student, MIT, Climate Physics and Chemistry program

My undergraduate degree is in math, but I was also interested in physics, education, and environmental science. I am currently a PhD student pursuing the...

Caroline Jakuba

Graduate Student, U. Connecticut, Genetics

m finishing up my doctorate at UCONN in Genetics and heading off to a postdoc at Wisconsin-Madison this summer to pursue science education research. While...

Brittany Jeye

Coordinator of the National Living Lab at the Museum of Science, Boston, and PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston College

Brittany Jeye is the Coordinator of the NSF-funded "National Living Lab Initiative" at the Museum of...

Tyler R. Jones

Graduate Student, University of Colorado, Biochemistry

I received a BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Colorado. I am now a PhD candidate in Biogeochemistry studying...

Erica Palma Kimmerling

Graduate Student, Tufts, Biomedical Engineering

Erica is a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Predoctoral research fellow at Tufts University. She earned her bachelors of...

Margaret Kosmala

Ecologist
Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University

Margaret Kosmala is the co-creator of the citizen science websites Snapshot Serengeti and...

Meg Krench

Graduate Student, MIT, Brain and Cognitive Science Department

I'm a PhD candidate in the Brain and Cognitive Science Department at MIT. My dissertation research focuses on Huntington's disease, an inherited...

Mandy Liesch

Graduate Student, North Carolina State University, Soil Science

Mandy is an artist trapped in the body of a soil scientist. She is a PhD student at North Carolina State University, researching how much storm-water soils...

Grace Lindsay

Graduate Student,Columbia, Neuroscience

I am a PhD student in Neuroscience at Columbia University. I got my BS in Neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in 2007, and then spent about a...

Carrie McDonough

Postdoctoral fellow at Colorado School of Mines

Carrie is a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado School of Mines, where she uses advanced analytical chemistry techniques (LC-QToF-MS) to identify...

Katie McGill

Graduate Student, Cornell University, Physics

Katie McGill discovered her love of physics in high school, and she subsequently headed to the College of Creative Studies at the University of...

Joseph O'Rourke

Graduate Student, Caltech, Planetary Science

Joseph is currently a first-year graduate student in planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, where he works with Heather Knutson and...

Elaine Oberlick

Graduate Student, Harvard, Biomedical Sciences

Hello all! I am a PhD student in Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University. I come to Boston from Arizona via Atlanta. I went to Emory University in Atlanta...

Alice Olmstead

Graduate Student, University of Maryland, Astronomy

I was born and raised in a small, liberal, artistic city in Massachusetts (Northampton, home of Smith College). Following in the footsteps of my older...

ComSciCon

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