Shivali Kadam is a chemical engineer working for a consulting firm centering around the semiconductor industry. She is also an accomplished pageant winner, and won the Miss Oregon title under the Miss America competition umbrella in 2019.

Recently, the federal government announced increased funding for five of the nation’s most promising COVID-19 vaccine candidates. Among the organizations selected is Moderna, a small biotechnology firm that began clinical trials of an mRNA-based coronavirus vaccine in March 2020.

Society today is accustomed to immediate gratification. People want things fast — fast food, fast entertainment, and fast fashion, a relatively new concept. The fast fashion industry draws inspiration from upscale fashion designers, but it turns those runway styles into inexpensive, trendy cloth- ing quickly and in mass quantities.

Over the past decade, drones have become a hot topic within the science and technology community. These devices, formally known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are essentially flying robots that can be controlled remotely, often embedded with a camera or other sensors.

The lives of six women reflect how far we have come, and how much further we have to go. On an unseasonably warm late-October day in Pittsburgh, PA, Rosemarie Wesson took the stage at AIChE’s 2018 Annual Meeting. Under the muted glow of a dozen spotlights, she told the story of six women who entered the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 2001. Four years later, they would become the first and only all-female chemical engineering class to graduate from any American coed college.

The current Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has spread to at least 58 people, and has killed nearly half of those individuals, according to an update today (May 23) from the World Health Organization (WHO). This is the nation's ninth Ebola outbreak since 1976, when the deadly virus was first discovered in a village near the country's Ebola River. But what if scientists were able to predict Ebola outbreaks and stop them before they even started?

Kim grew up on the west end of Richmond, a young girl with big blue eyes living in the nice part of town — bad things didn’t happen to girls like her, not in the suburbs. By 14, though, she had started experimenting with weed and alcohol. As a freshman at Hermitage High School, Kim moved onto bigger and better drugs. Forget her school colors of red and blue, she’d found white — in prescription opiate pills and powdery bleached cocaine.

Despite frigid, 20-degree wind chill Wednesday morning, dozens of protesters gathered outside the SunTrust building in downtown Richmond to express growing dissent for newly-appointed U.S. Attorney General and Alabama’s former Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions.

I can almost see J. Alan Cumbey, sprawled next to his sister in his Willi Smith suit and his skinny tie, chain-smoking as his sister tells me about his life. He looks bemused, from the even line of his flat-top down to the tips of his pointy shoes. Cumbey was a prolific gay writer and artist in 1980s Richmond — better known for his wry writing style than for his jarring artwork.

The scene was harshly symbolic, and in my eyes, indicative of the state of our modern planet. These vultures – who seemed much closer to nature than humanity could ever be – noticed the decrepit state of a habitat that is perhaps not as pretty as say coral reefs, but is just as important. It was depressing, to say the least, to see these birds that prey on lifeless beings circling a place that once belonged to a greener, livelier earth.