Greater Good Science Center

and, most impressively, their seamless collaboration. Despite my attendance at a high school that prides itself on its historically diverse student-body, this place felt utopic. However, in the presence of my father, I remained wary of his right of center political beliefs revealed through our debates over the years, and I remember how much he influenced my own beliefs when I was younger. I have learned to work continuously to unlearn many of the prejudices that can hold me…

institutions. The Pacer Center, an educational advocacy organization for students recognizes this gap in communication of resources saying, “It is crucial that students and their advocates become knowledgeable about their rights and responsibilities in postsecondary education because, although protections exist, the student has considerably more responsibility to request and design their own accommodations. And this responsibility is ongoing. For many students with disabilities, good…

finally comes out with it. Your mom and little sister have been in a severe car accident and are both currently in the E.R. Your heart sinks as you begin to tear up. After you hang up you run to your car and begin the drive to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Once you arrive your dad tells you that your mom is expected to make a full recovery, but your sister had passed 45 minutes earlier. At this point you are bawling as you go to say your goodbyes. You give your sister one last hug and while she…

packaged goods industries. These industries have stepped up corporate sustainability efforts through the use of improved technological processes and methods of manufacturing. Corporations within these industries are reducing their carbon footprints with smarter packaging designs and development, reducing greenhouse gas production, reducing energy consumption, utilization of alternative and renewable energy sources, ethical waste management, occupational safety, health and wellness, and greater…

However, the effects of eating breakfast easily outweigh the causes of skipping breakfast. Because preventable diseases continue to cause major problems within society, it only makes sense that all people begin to understand the preventative effects of a good morning meal. Additionally, productivity in both schools and workplaces would increase if all students and employees ate a breakfast prior to the start of the day. While some people may believe eating breakfast results in weight gain, the…

The ethical debate that centers around how much humans should be able to change their own qualities and their surroundings has been a major topic of conversation for the past century. According to the Big Bang theory, there has been life on earth for 3.6 billion years. The human species has only existed for about 2500 years, however, only about a span of a few years ago had we develop biotechnologies advanced enough to deeply explore our DNA. In the 1980s people read science fiction stories…

unusual panacea for this alarming issue, “His novel solution was to take them to an art gallery. He teamed up with Linda Friedlander, curator of the Yale Center for British Art to design a visual tutorial for one hundred students. They asked the students to examine paintings, forcing them to unpack the many layers of detail and meaning in a good work of art. Braverman found that students performed demonstrably better at diagnosis after taking the class--so much so that twenty other medical…

war, religion and science divide the people. For some, there must be a reason behind any phenomenon. Events do not happen haphazardly. To others, a higher power is all the reasoning they require. Being able to look up to a higher power give some people comfort. In Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle, Vonnegut questions the authenticity of both institutions through the reaction humanity has on the stances of religion and science. Through Bokononist ideas and the field of science, Vonnegut is able…

At the center of the mural is a man who looks to be a worker, of some sort due to his clothes, at the control panel of a large machine. From his position he is looking upward into what can be interpreted as the future and he is the controller of developing technology. Within this future a hand is emerging holding a globe, and surrounding the man is elements of science and technological advances, such as: the telescope, disclosure of space…

never as straight-forward as one might hope. Chemistry always gave the best context to answer my questions and explain the world around me. This context and understanding in turn allowed me to better help others. Throughout my journey so far in science and becoming a Chemist, those questions I asked my 4-year old self while sitting next to the medicine cabinet still acted as a motivation. By now, the original questions of what those words meant and how the medicines worked have long since been…