May 9, 2005

Women in Science Career Day at BNL

Ten female students from the Henry Viscardi School, an Albertson, Long Island-based school for children with physical disabilities and health impairments, learned about scientific careers first-hand from female researchers at BNL. The career day was coordinated by Brookhaven Women in Science and funded by Brookhaven Science Associates. During the day, Jeanne Petschauer (standing, left) from the Community Relations Office gave an overview of BNL's breadth of scientific interests, and Lisa Miller (right) of the National Synchrotron Light Source Department discussed her path to becoming a chemist and her research on such diseases as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's disease. Linda Bowerman of the Atmospheric Sciences Division explained some of BNL's environmental research, and physicist Angelika Drees described her work with other scientists to discover more about the earliest moments of the universe now being studied at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. Among the students present were (front, from left) Adeline Joshua and Stephanie Avramenko.

ARTICLE BY: Diane Greenberg