By Margaret King When 15-year-old Lauren Mathios won the grand prize in the “Stop the Spread” video contest with a public service announcement about COVID-19 prevention, she thanked her family, her friends and her teachers for helping and encouraging her. She also gave a shout-out to Sally Ride Science. “I took a weeklong (filmmaking) class […]
Note: On Oct. 7, 2020, Jennifer Doudna and her research collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering the CRISPR gene-editing technology. “This year’s prize is about rewriting the code of life,” said Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, as he announced the winners. _________________________________________ Growing up in […]
Note: On Oct. 6, 2020, Andrea Ghez was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.” She shares the prize with Reinhard Genzel of UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics and Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford. _________________________________________ […]