Discovery Museum Hosts Local Scientists & Artists to Celebrate New Exhibit Focused on Women in STEAM Careers

ACTON: Join Discovery Museum November 13 from 1-3pm in celebration of the women behind the Museum’s newest exhibit, Picture Yourself: Women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). Visit each of six portraits installed around the Museum and meet some of the local scientists who are represented in the exhibit, and the artists who created these amazing works of art. Learn about their work, research, and interests, and discover why they find science and art cool and exciting. They’ll answer your questions as they share what it’s like to be a scientist or artist.
Scheduled to participate:
The exhibit, Picture Yourself: Women in STEAM, is made possible in part by an IF/THEN® Gender Equity Grant, a program created through a partnership between the Association of Science and Technology Centers and IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies. Additional support is provided by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. To learn more about the exhibit, visit www.discoveryacton.org/exhibit/picture-yourself-women-steam.
Scheduled to participate:
- Professor Bulbul Chakraborty – Condensed Matter Theorist, Professor of Physics, Brandeis University
- Professor Maureen Ritchey – Cognitive Neuroscientist, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College
- Dr. Suanna Selby Crowley – Geoarcheologist, Founder, HeadFort Consulting
- Ellice Patterson, M.S. (pictured) – Biologist, Founder/Artistic and Executive Director, Abilities Dance; Executive Director, BalletRox
- Professor Melissa Kosinski-Collins – Structural Biologist, Professor of Biology, Brandeis University
- Wing Na Wong – Photorealist painter, Danbury, Connecticut
- Indigo Fox Tree-McGrath – Artist, Boston, Massachusetts
The exhibit, Picture Yourself: Women in STEAM, is made possible in part by an IF/THEN® Gender Equity Grant, a program created through a partnership between the Association of Science and Technology Centers and IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies. Additional support is provided by Alnylam Pharmaceuticals. To learn more about the exhibit, visit www.discoveryacton.org/exhibit/picture-yourself-women-steam.