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IfThenSheCan
''#IfThenSheCan'' is a collection of 120 3D-printed orange freestanding 1:1 scale statues of American women in STEM fields. Various subsets of these sculptures have been exhibited across the United States, most prominently at Smithsonian buildings in Washington DC. The exhibition is part of a wider project called #IfThen (also stylised IF/THEN), the name of which takes the form of a hashtag and refers to the project's motto: "if she can see it, then she can be it" (a concept called representation). Taken in the context of computer engineering (part of the E in STEM), an if/then statement controls logic flow. Depicted Notable women depicted include: * Erika Anderson * Katy Croff Bell * Deborah Berebichez * Dana Bolles * Afua Bruce * Raychelle Burks * Olivia Castellini * Anjali Chadha * Minerva Cordero * Jess Cramp * Catie Cuan * Greetchen Díaz-Muñoz * Sylvia A. Earle * Crystal R. Emery * Jessica Esquivel * Xyla Foxlin * Allison Fundis * Joyonna Gamble-Georg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jess Cramp
Jess Cramp is an American Marine biology, marine biologist and shark researcher. She is the founder of Sharks Pacific, a non-profit organization focused on compiling and providing data collected during expeditions on sharks and Stingray, rays in the Cook Islands. Career Cramp worked as a biologist in a drug discovery laboratory in San Diego for almost ten years. She volunteered for marine-related initiatives in Central America before moving to the Pacific in 2011. While living in the Cook Islands, Cramp managed the Pacific Islands Conservation Initiative (PICI). She was instrumental in the community campaign that resulted in the Cook Islands Shark Sanctuary. This is the largest shark sanctuary in the world, measuring 772,204-square-miles. Cramp completed a Ph.D. at James Cook University in Australia, where she studied the effectiveness of large-scale marine reserves on wide-ranging sharks. In 2015, Cramp was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. This included a three w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anjali Chadha
Anjali Chadha (born 2000s) is an American bioengineer. She is an ambassador for AAAS If/Then. She was named a 2020 Voices Of the Year, by ''Seventeen'' magazine. Life She grew up in Louisville. She studied at DuPont Manual high school, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She founded Empowered, Inc. in 2016 In 2018, she was featured in the documentary, ''Science Fair''. In May 2018, Chadha won two prizes at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF). She won the Environmental Engineering Intel ISEF Second Award and the Special Award: Air Force Research Laboratory on behalf of the United States Air Force First Award, winning $1500 and $750 respectively. She was also a member of the Center for Excellence in Education's 2018 Research Science Institute cohort. In 2019, she was one of 40 finalists for the Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) for her invention of a sensor that could detect arsenic in drinking water Drinking water is water that is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afua Bruce
Afua Bruce is an American engineer, data executive, professor, and former U.S. government official who has held appointments at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and on President Joe Biden’s transition agency review team at the Department of Justice. In 2021, a statue was erected in Bruce's honor in Dallas, Texas by the American Association for Advancement of Science. Bruce is a public interest technologist. Education Bruce received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from the University of Michigan. At Purdue, Bruce was one of two recipients of the BP Amoco merit-based scholarship. Career Bruce began her career as a software engineer at IBM. She then joined the FBI where she served in various strategy and program management roles. In 2015, she was appointed to the Office of Science and Technology Policy at the White House as the Executive Director of the National Scienc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minerva Cordero
Minerva Cordero Braña is a Puerto Rican mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. She is also the university's Senior Associate Dean for the College of Science, where she is responsible for the advancement of the research mission of the college. President Biden awarded her the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) on February 8, 2022. Early life and education Cordero was born in Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Her mother, whose schooling stopped after the fifth grade, made education a top priority in the family home. She told her children "the best thing I can give you is an education." Cordero and her siblings would do their homework together and discussed what they learned in school each day. Cordero said, "We learned each other's subjects." Wanting to go to college, Cordero bought herself a college exam preparation book in high school and studied for the college-entrance exam. She st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Croff Bell
Katy Croff Bell is a marine explorer who has been on more than 30 oceanographic and archaeological expeditions including in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the Pacific Ocean. She is also an American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Association for Advancement of Science If/Then Ambassador in recognition of her work to interest girls in STEM careers. Education Bell received a Bachelor's degree, bachelor of science in Marine engineering, ocean engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, working with Professor David Mindell in the Deepwater Archaeology group. Following college, she spent 2001 as a John A. Knauss Marine Policy Fellow in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration. She completed a master's degree in maritime archaeology at the University of Southampton, before moving to the Graduate School of Oceanography in Rhode Isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashley Podhradsky
Ashley is a place name derived from the Old English words '' æsc'' (“ash”) and '' lēah'' (“meadow”). It may refer to: People and fictional characters * Ashley (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Ashley (surname), a list of people * Ashley (singer) (born 1975), Puerto Rican singer * Ashley, South Korean singer and leader of Ladies' Code Places Australia * Ashley, New South Wales England * Ashley, Cambridgeshire * Ashley, Cheshire * Ashley, Gloucestershire * Ashley, East Hampshire * Ashley, New Forest, Hampshire * Ashley, Test Valley, Hampshire * Ashley, Kent * Ashley, Northamptonshire * Ashley, Staffordshire * Ashley, Wiltshire * Ashley (Bristol ward) New Zealand * Ashley, New Zealand ** Ashley (New Zealand electorate), a former electorate 1866–1902 United States * Ashley County, Arkansas * Ashley, Illinois * Ashley, Indiana * Ashley, Michigan * Ashley, Missouri * Ashley, North Dakota * Ashley, Ohio * As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Representation
Social representations are a system of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that serve to establish social order, orient participants and enable communication among the members of groups and communities. Social representation theory is a body of theory within social psychology and sociological social psychology. It has parallels in sociological theorizing such as social constructionism and symbolic interactionism, and is similar in some ways to mass consensus and discursive psychology. Origin and definition The term ''social representation'' was originally coined by Serge Moscovici in 1961,Moscovici, S. (1961). ''La psychanalyse, son image et son public''. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France. in his study on the reception and circulation of psychoanalysis in France. It is understood as the collective elaboration "of a social object by the community for the purpose of behaving and communicating". They are further referred to as "system of values, ideas and practices ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catie Cuan
Catie Cuan an artist and innovator in the field of choreorobotics. She is a robotics Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Early life and education She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkeley. As a ballet dancer and choreographer, she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Career Cuan credits her work in robotics to the experience after her father had experienced a stroke, and was surrounded by medical machines, and how people might, "feel empowered and hopeful rather than afraid." In 2020, she was the dancer and choreographer of the show, “Output,” which was part of a collaboration with ThoughtWorks Arts and the Pratt Institute. In the production, she danced with an ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot. In 2022, she was named as an IF/THEN ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was the Futurist-in-Residence at th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olivia Castellini
Olivia Castellini, an American physicist and science educator, is the senior exhibit developer at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, where she developed the ''Science Storm'' exhibit. Early education Olivia Castellini was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She is a member of a family of six girls and one boy. Being raised by supportive parents, each child in her family was encouraged to pursue their different interests. Olivia found her passion for math as she thinks “it’s like solving little puzzles” and “endlessly fascinating.” She also developed her interest in music, which has enriched her capacity of being a scientist. When she was five, she started playing the violin and attended The School of Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati when she was in the sixth grade, learning instrumental music, vocal music, and drama. Seeking her career path, she didn't intend to work on physics at first. Instead, she was more interested in being a cardiac surgeon and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raychelle Burks
Raychelle Burks is an Associate Professor of analytical chemistry at American University in Washington, D.C. and science communicator, who has regularly appeared on the Science Channel. In 2020, the American Chemical Society awarded her the Grady-Stack award for her public engagement excellence. Early life and education Burks developed an interest in forensic chemistry when she was 12 after a field trip that presented students with a science interaction challenge, asking students to solve a real-world problem using science. Burks earned her BS in chemistry at the University of Northern Iowa, her MSc in Forensic Science at Nebraska Wesleyan University, her PhD in chemistry from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and was a postdoctoral research associate at the Doane College. Career and research Burks became an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, in 2016, where she taught and conducted research until 2020. She then moved to Washin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Bolles
Dana Bolles is an American spaceflight engineer and advocate for those with disabilities in STEM. She has worked at NASA since 1995 in a variety of fields. She is also an ambassador for the American Association for the Advancement of Science's If/then initiative. Early life and education Bolles was born without arms or legs. She has stated that she became interested in visiting space at an early age since it would allow her to move without the assistance of her wheelchair. Bolles earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from California State University, Long Beach in 1993, and has a master's degree in rehabilitation engineering and technology from San Francisco State University. Career Bolles started working at NASA in 1995 as an engineer in regulatory compliance, including work on environmental regulations. This later expanded to work in protecting humans in outer space and scientific communications. She also volunteers as an advocate for women, people with disab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Berebichez
Deborah Berebichez is a Mexican physicist, data scientist, TV host, educator and entrepreneur who dedicates her career to promoting education in science, technology, engineering and math ( STEM) fields. She was the first Mexican woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University. She has developed models for cellular wave transmission which are in the process of being patented. Sometimes known as "The Science Babe", she appears in mainstream television and radio segments where she explains concepts in physics in everyday life. Education According to Berebichez, she was a curious girl, good at math and science and dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Growing up as a girl in a conservative community, she felt discouraged from pursuing a career in science. Despite being more interested in physics, she started studying philosophy and completed the first two years of university in Mexico City while secretly applying to schools in the US, after having heard that they allo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
