When Peter Delfyett (pictured left) was in the first grade, his father took him to see the science fiction movie Journey to the Beginning of Time, a story about four boys who traveled back to the age of dinosaurs. The experience opened the younger Delfyett's mind to the wonders of science. "Science encouraged curiosity, to ask questions. Rather than being intimidated by science, I thought as a ki...
Before Ryan Harrison (pictured left) was on the case, computer programs that predict the structure of proteins could not fully account for the effect of environment acidity. During the last 2 years, Harrison, who began programming in Basic in the fourth grade and has since taught himself HTML, JavaScript, PHP/MySQL, CGI, C++, Perl, and Bash/Shell to varying degrees of proficiency, spent thousands...
Instead of dropping out from Dewitt Clinton high school in the Bronx, New York, like 60 percent of the students there, Stephon Alexander aimed for Cornell. But his guidance counselor declined to give him a Cornell application, telling him "I don't think you have what it takes to get in." But Alexander persisted, and ultimately it was science that allowed him to "escape from the realities of inner...
Deborah Jackson (pictured left) first became interested in science in junior high school after reading about telepaths and spaceships in the sci-fi novel Star Rangers by Andre Norton. "I became enamored with the idea of writing science fiction. I wanted to get into science because I thought you couldn't really write science fiction unless you knew some," she recalls. "Along the line, it turned ou...
Charles Taber, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University in New York, talks about his career and his research on race and human behavior.
