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The job market for highly skilled positions is more competitive now than in previous generations, says Savannah Sullivan. Learning outside your cho...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 1
A chemistry set with “really nice stuff in it” sparked Anna Wilson’s lifelong interest in chemistry, but her passion made her a bit of an oddball i...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 29, 2013
- Length: 03:00
- Purchases: 1
It’s not all about career, says Laura McCunn. Marriage and family need to be considered when choosing a path, she says, and she credits a lot of he...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:03
In 1941 Helen Free was studying to be a Latin and English teacher—that is, until Pearl Harbor changed her fate. With the country’s young men being ...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:50
After getting her master’s degree Kristine Chin found herself working in industry as the first woman in an all-male lab. It was a challenging exper...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:16
- Purchases: 1
In the mid-1980s only 10 of the 100 on-scene coordinators at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) were women. Mary Ellen Ternes was one of thi...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:53
- Purchases: 1
From: Distillations
After the launch of Sputnik in 1957 the new emphasis on science education in the United States helped spark an interest in a young Mary Jo Nye. She...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 04:33
For Wendy Young Reed, life is too short for disliking a job. To find a career you enjoy, she says, the key is to network the old-fashioned way: wit...
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 03:29
"I've got on these stiletto heels aimed for his face." - Farrah Fawcett was stuck in the rain on the corner of 51st and 5th Avenue in Manhattan. It...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 12, 2013
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 1
"I still think the same way I thought as a child. I still worry. I'm still frightened... Nothing changes." - Maurice Sendak
In 2009 Newsweek's And...
Bought by WABE, KALW, KJZZ, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., PRX Remix and more
- Added: Jun 11, 2013
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 7
When navigating the career path, advises Cynthia Palmer, make sure the jobs you take are the ones you actually want. She talks about the importance...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:27
It was a tough decision, she says, but Terri Taylor left grad school to become a high-school chemistry teacher. She talks about the importance of f...
- Added: Jun 10, 2013
- Length: 03:30
From: Distillations
Marinda Wu chose her particular graduate program because she wanted to work for a famous professor. But when she arrived, she was told the professo...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: May 20, 2013
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 1
"Can you imagine going through America at that time, a man of color, a little boy, 14 years old, that height? You know, I was looked upon as a frea...
Bought by Louisville Public Media and KJZZ
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 04:50
- Purchases: 2
An interview with Seminole filmmaker Tracy Rector, Producer of March Point.
- Added: May 14, 2013
- Length: 14:44
Women chemists who are also trying to raise a family can get a lot of heat, even from other women, says Bevin Parks. It helps, she says, to get to ...
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 04:12
In the face of harassment, Isabel Escobar learned the hard-earned lesson of standing up for herself. From men assuming she had a temper and could “...
- Added: May 06, 2013
- Length: 04:36
When Kathryn Lysko began her undergraduate work, there were 15,000 men and 100 women in her entire college. She talks about the camaraderie that em...
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 04:15
From: Distillations
Without mentors, says Judith Iriarte-Gross, she would have never become a chemist. She talks about the importance of encouragement, the necessity o...
- Added: Apr 22, 2013
- Length: 03:57
The obstacles facing women today have not disappeared—they’ve just become more subtle, says Bonnie Charpentier. In this week’s episode, she discuss...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 03:54
Joan Brennecke talks about how spending Saturdays with her dad pulling apart cars and old calculators led to a lifetime of curiosity.
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 04:06
From: Distillations
In a small town in South Carolina, chemistry students at a high school were doing accomplished, innovative work—yet no one was paying attention. De...
- Added: Apr 16, 2013
- Length: 02:41
Billie Holiday once said, "No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music." As we look back on her life a...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KUPR low power FM, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 03:04
- Purchases: 4
"What's wrong with being fat? That's what I want to know. Why is it so onerous to be fat?" - Jim Morrison
Interview by Howard Smith | TheSmithTape...
- Added: Apr 02, 2013
- Length: 04:39
- Purchases: 4
In her role with the Chemical Security Engagement program of the U.S. Department of State, Nancy Jackson travels throughout Asia and the Middle Eas...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 03:57
- Purchases: 1
