Tejaswini Chatty may only be in the first year of her PhD at Thayer, but ever since arriving in the US for the first time six months ago, she’s hit the ground running.
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“I first noticed it in my undergraduate physics courses. The men in my cohort displayed an uncanny self-confidence not exuded by my female colleagues.”
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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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