Moms of Science: Stories about being mothers and scientists
b"his week we present two stories of scientists becoming mothers.\\nPart 1: Heather Williams trades in her physicist labcoat for motherhood, and wonders if she can return.\\nPart 2: Mary Garcia-Cazarin discovers she's pregnant just as she is offered a prestigious science policy fellowship, and worries about whether she can't cope with both.\\nHeather Williams is a principal medical physicist at The Christie\\xa0 hospital in Manchester, UK, where she oversees imaging and therapy in\\xa0 the Nuclear Medicine Department and specialises in Positron Emission\\xa0 Tomography. Heather is an advocate for science communication to\\xa0 non-expert audiences and is passionate about supporting Women in STEM.\\xa0 The latter lead her to set up ScienceGrrl back in 2012, a grassroots\\xa0 national network with 10 local chapters throughout the UK that help\\xa0 match scientists with speaking opportunities close to them. Williams is a\\xa0 current member of the IOP's Women in Physics group committee and\\xa0 represents the Institute of Physics within the European Platform for\\xa0 Women Scientists (EPWS). In 2017 she was awarded the IOP Phillips Award\\xa0 for distinguished service to the IOP through the Women in Physics Group.\\xa0 When she\\u2019s not working, Heather enjoys running, cycling, hiking and\\xa0 spending time with her sons.\\xa0 \\xa0\\n\\nMary Garcia-Cazarin, Ph.D., M.S. is a Scientific Advisor for the Tobacco\\xa0 Regulatory Science Program (TRSP) in the Office of Disease Prevention\\xa0 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) where she helps to stimulate\\xa0 and coordinate collaborative tobacco regulatory science research; and\\xa0 implementation of initiatives related to disease prevention, tobacco and\\xa0 public health. Previously, Dr. Garcia-Cazarin was an American\\xa0 Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology\\xa0 Policy Fellow in the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS). She is an\\xa0 alumna of the Linton-Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute (2011) and the\\xa0 Advanced Leadership Institute (2017). Dr. Garcia-Cazarin is a former\\xa0 SACNAS Board Member. She received her Bachelor of Science in\\xa0 pharmaceutical chemistry from Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico, her\\xa0 Master of Science in biology from James Madison University, in\\xa0 Harrisonburg, Virginia, and her Ph.D. in pharmacology from the\\xa0 University of Kentucky in Lexington. She is a passionate about training\\xa0 and mentoring and an advocate of outreach programs to increase\\xa0 participation of underrepresented groups in science-related fields.\\xa0 \\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices"