In Love with Science: Stories about Loving Science
b'This week, we\\u2019re presenting two stories from people who made science their one and only..\\nPart 1: Parmvir Bahia struggles to appease her parents\\u2019 desires for an Indian son-in-law while also satisfying her own desires to be a scientist.\\nPart 2: Monica Dunford\\u2019s finds physics cold and boring until she gets a summer job in a lab that changes everything.\\nParmvir Bahia is a short, British-Indian, neuroscience\\xa0 PhD working at the University of South Florida. She studies the role of\\xa0 nerves in the respiratory system and how they might hold the key to\\xa0 understanding diseases like asthma and COPD. When not researching or\\xa0 writing long lists of self-describing adjectives she runs the science\\xa0 communication and outreach initiatives: taste of science \\u2013 a science festival for adults, and a podcast called 2Scientists. She also enjoys running on trails and glasses of red wine, but not usually at the same time. \\n\\nMonica Dunford is an experimental high-energy particle\\xa0 physicist working on the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider at\\xa0 CERN. She is currently at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Prof.\\xa0 Dunford\\u2019s research ranges from combing through petabytes of data in\\xa0 search of new elusive particles to crawling in small, dusty places\\xa0 connecting thousands of kilometers of cables. \\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'