Women in Science Career Day Held at Brookhaven Lab

May 9, 2005

Joshua and Avramenko with Petschauer and Miller. enlarge

In the photo are students Adeline Joshua (left) and Stephanie Avramenko with Petschauer (left) and Miller. (Click image to download hi-res version.)

UPTON, NY - 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 the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory. The career day was coordinated by Brookhaven Women in Science and funded by Brookhaven Science Associates.

Jeanne Petschauer, from Brookhaven's Community Relations Office, gave an overview of the Laboratory. Lisa Miller discussed her path to becoming a chemist and her research on such diseases as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, and Alzhemier's disease at Brookhaven's National Synchrotron Light Source. Linda Bowerman of Brookhaven's Atmospheric Sciences Division discussed her environmental research, and physicist Angelika Drees spoke about her work involving Brookhaven's premiere accelerator, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider.

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