Amongst adolescent girls in the U.S., computer science (CS) is perceived a masculine field leading to low numbers of girls and women pursuing CS degrees and widespread perception that they are simply uninterested.
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“When faced with becoming a single parent after nearly a decade of being mostly a stay-at-home mom, I had to decide if I was going to return to the food service industry and work my body to death while just paying the bills, or take a risk in trying to pursue a satisfying career I would be able to sustain passion for over the long haul. I chose the latter."
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Measuring an immeasurable commodity is not for everyone, but Lan Nguyen is up for the challenge. In her chosen field of environmental economics, Lan strives to calculate the value of vital ecosystems that occupy our planet, such as the Chesapeake Bay and the coastal mangrove forests of SE Asia.
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If you’d asked Molecular Cell Biology (MCB) student Eva Childers in her first year at Dartmouth about what it means to be a woman in science, she would have described a near optimal experience. As an undergraduate at Worchester Polytechnic Institute, Eva was enticed from her original plan to become a biomedical engineer into the world of biology and biotechnology by her research lab advisor, Amity Manning.
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What do you get when three scientists and a group of curious like-minded people walk into a bar? If the pub is the Salt hill in Lebanon, then you have a good chance of being right if your answer is Science Pub. This monthly event has been running regularly for the past seven years and has seen Dartmouth faculty from almost every field of science research, and a sprinkling of humanities faculty, gather to share their perspectives on topics as diverse as Music, Genetics, Black Holes, and Beer, with several in between.
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