Women in Science High School Career Day Held at Brookhaven Lab
UPTON, NY - About 45 female students from four local high schools
learned firsthand about careers in science and related fields from women
employees at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National
Laboratory. The students came from Greenport, the Hewlett School in East
Islip, Mattituck and Riverhead.
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At Brookhaven Women in Science High School Career
Day, physicist Fulvia Pilat, Collider-Accelerator Department,
explains the research at RHIC to students from Long Island high
schools. The students are (from left) Sarah Pillai from Mattituck
High School; Taylor Manalili, Riverhead High School; Emily Delorme,
Greenport High School; and Elena Skorodumova, from the Hewlitt
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Coordinated by Brookhaven Women in Science and funded by Brookhaven
Science Associates, the Brookhaven Women in Science High School Career Day
held on February 12 featured panel presentations by women in various
scientific and technical fields. Subjects covered included physics,
chemistry, engineering, medical technology, health promotion and science
writing. Female presenters shared their educational career successes and
setbacks as well as their career advice with the students. A similar event
was held last November.
The students also took a tour of Brookhaven’s
Relativistic Heavy Ion
Collider, the Laboratory’s newest and largest accelerator in which
physicists hope to recreate a kind of matter that has not existed since
the Big Bang. The students also were treated to a tour of the
Scanning
Transmission Electron Microscope, a facility where researchers from
all over the world can image biological specimens.
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U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory conducts
research in the physical, biomedical, and environmental sciences, as
well as in energy technologies. Brookhaven also builds and operates
major facilities available to university, industrial, and government
scientists. The Laboratory is managed by Brookhaven Science
Associates, a limited liability company founded by Stony Brook
University and Battelle, a nonprofit applied science and technology
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