Listen. Subscribe. How can we empower teen girls of color? PhDivas Liz and Xine talk to Eden and Ellisa Oyewo about how their C.O.R.E. work supports girls in those formative years before university. These sisters from Indiana collaborate from different cities and careers (engineering vs. fashion) to create and run C.O.R.E. (Creating Opportunity to Reach…
Month: October 2017
Liz Wayne’s TED Talk is here! “We can hack our immune cells to fight cancer”
Our PhDiva Liz Wayne is a 2017 TED Fellow. Watch her TED Talk here! “After decades of research and billions spent in clinical trials, we still have a problem with cancer drug delivery, says biomedical engineer Elizabeth Wayne. Chemotherapy kills cancer — but it kills the rest of your body, too. Instead of using human…
S04E02 | DREAMing of STEM: #DefendDACA Impacts Dory Castillo’s Physicist Hopes & Science Teaching
Listen here. 800,000 undocumented young people in the US will be endangered if the DACA(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program ends. PhDivas Liz and Xine interview DREAMer Dory Castillo, an amazing undergrad furthering children’s science education who hopes to become a physicist herself. But because of her undocumented status, she has to live with the…
