Spotlights

I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. We were …

I was born and raised in Robbinsville, a small town in central New Jersey …

I never planned to become a mathematician. I liked math growing up because it made sense to me – …

I was always interested in how the world worked, and looking back now, I can see my interest in …

I was born in Cusco, Peru, located at an altitude of 11,000 feet in the Andes, where we lived with …

I’ve always thought planes were cool. I went on my first flight when I was 6, from my hometown of …

I was raised by my Sicilian mother in the small town of Saugerties in upstate New York …

I was born in Kumasi, Ghana, and moved to the U.S. with my parents and older sister when I was 2 …

When I first started college, someone asked if I wanted to join the Society of Women Engineers, but …

I study how we can use neural networks and machine learning to better understand the mechanics of …

During the peak of COVID when large gatherings were rare, I joined thousands of people on a beach …

I was born in Boston, but I grew up in the Midwest, and lived in Chicago for a while before our …

When I was around 14, NASA landed the Curiosity rover on Mars and it was an aha moment for me …

I grew up in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, but by the time I was in eighth grade, my family had moved …

I was born in China’s Hunan Province and came to the U.S. alone when I was 17 …

My first trip to London opened my mind to the idea that buildings can tell stories …

I work in Alison Marsden’s lab, where we study computational modeling of the cardiovascular …

I’m a designer by training …

I think I first became curious about space and science in middle school …

I was born in Salinas, and in those first few weeks I had episodes when I stopped breathing …

My curiosity about engineering has been a part of me since I was a little girl …