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"Being precisely subject and object, this return to reflexivity has opened up avenues for me to understand a generation of men and women with similar dispositions."

"Who have managed to achieve important positions in the scientific, cultural."

"They are said to be "miracle survivors, but the sociological miracle has a history, a social and political genesis that must be re-examined."

"The miracle has to be paid for, it has a price, a price that must be evaluated, put a price on the price."

"After having left the tribe as a child through the violence of war."

"I only found it again thanks to anthropological research."

"After several events, the war, the regroupings, the deaths around 300 out of a population of around 2,000 inhabitants, the imprisonments, the burning of the hamlets, the occupation of the village by the army, the exodus."

"Then came national independence in 1962."

"Its share of hopes and its procession of disappointments."

"The human waste management systems,” she says. “Watching them transform materials that would have otherwise been waste into nourishing food for fish was inspiring."

"Finding uses for things that would otherwise wind up as pollution in the environment became personal"

"It will take decades to transition our sources of energy, and some industrial emissions have an inherently high carbon cost that may never go away, such as the manufacturing of steel, glass and cement,” Etosha says. “Carbon transformation closes the loop and helps curb the impact of such emissions."

"What we’re doing is essentially industrial photosynthesis,” Etosha says. “We’re transforming carbon dioxide in a manner analogous to what plants do, and the result is carbon compounds and oxygen."

"This support will help us to build a megawatt-sized building block or module that can process two thousand tons of carbon dioxide a year"

"We’re still in early days,” she says. “But we believe carbon transformation to be a critical part of a comprehensive climate strategy."

"What a lot of airlines and large Fortune 500 companies are realizing is that the aviation sector is very hard to decarbonize,” Cave said at the CES tech trade show in January. Solutions such as battery-powered planes and hydrogen will take years to come to scale"

"I admire the leaders who can rise to the need of the moment. Whether it is empathy when their team needs to be listened to, inspiration that motivates large groups to do great things, or patience when things go awry, great leaders can switch into each mode."

"I kind of saw myself as being a scientist in a lab and developing something new and novel helping deploy it as part of a larger company"

"So that's the beautiful thing about astrobiology. [Proving the existence of life] is like the ultimate episode of CSI. You're putting together the biggest forensic case of your life to prove who the killer is, and you’ve got to be able to go to the jury and prove beyond reasonable doubt that you know who's done it."

"Be true to yourself, don’t compromise yourself, ask a lot of questions... that’s literally our job!."

"Employees are our number one asset, and their concerns are valid, so I'm taking a very strategic approach to address items from the DEOCS survey perspective"

"Our headquarters staff is about 144 strong, but we are affecting a workforce in the field which is over 5,000 strong,"

"Because I was working in program offices, it gave me insight into DCMA and what they do in-plant, so that was very beneficial"

"feel like my past roles allowed me to bring my acquisition and Army-specific background into this position so I can best support those in the field"

"I’m a transformational leader and a servant leader at heart"

"I recognize my customer is the workforce in the field, so I am here to serve them. I must make sure that they receive the proper resources, that they have been adequately trained, and I have to ensure that everything they do positively impacts those around them."

"I want to create positive change for the directorate and have TD be a part of Vision 2026’s success"

"The goal is to develop a wearable medical device capable of measuring a multitude of parameters. Most medical devices in current circulation can only measure one or two."

"Optical signals are absorbed and scattered differently depending on skin pigmentation."

"There has been an opening of doors in terms of helping people to connect and collaborate within their field and across fields."

"We’re dealing with very weak optical signals that have to transverse through tissues with lots of [other] elements that absorb and scatter light,"

"I have been elected Physics Coordinator of the LHCb experiment, my two-year mandate starts on August 1rst, 2022."

"It’s very similar to when you’re riding a car and you go through a tunnel. You lose signal because of the absorption of the materials in the tunnel, such that the signal being transmitted from the cell-phone tower is too weak to be processed by your phone."

"For the first 18 years of my career, I was the only Black woman in my field. When I was in the Navy, I was the only Black girl in my division. Afterwards in my lab, I was the only Black woman in the whole facility – and initially they thought I was the janitor."

"You feel like you have to represent your entire race and descend the racial stereotypes … especially in nuclear and radiochemistry."

"I thought about me — as a little girl, desperately looking for someone like me in science who was an inspiration, and it changed my perspective."

"There’s a big challenge ahead to balance the gender numbers in the engineering professions. Research indicates that girls are usually around middle school age when they become turned off to math and science."

"I’m finding the culture here to be very open to collaboration and working across disciplines—there’s a real generosity in sharing information."

"Whenever anything broke in our house, before we threw it out, my dad would say, ‘Let’s take it apart just to look inside.’ Because it was already broken, we could break it even more. That was a lot of fun."

"I hope that our Representatives were reinvigorated for the good cause we represent as academics, researchers, scientists."

"This trip inspired me to consider myself a true advocate for wise engineering policy. I am just starting out in my career, and I want to contribute to research of advanced technologies that can change what society considers to be possible in different realms of our lives, from education to transportation."

"It’s not that they don’t exist; maybe there’s something about how things are currently operating that doesn’t speak to them, and so we want to really understand that so that we can better serve this really underestimated group of people,"

"I’m taking a systems engineering approach to this very complex system that hasn’t really been taken before."

"I just remember feeling really alone with caregiving and feeling really lost navigating the wilderness of disability services"

"It is an important time in higher education, and I look forward to joining Chancellor Rogers and the students, faculty, staff, alumni and partners of ECU in further advancing the university’s educational and research strengths along with the commitment to the region, the state, the nation and beyond"

"I learned a long time ago that a university’s people are its most important resource,” she said. “And at ECU, starting with the chancellor, and inclusive even of our incoming new students across every level, we all have an opportunity to apply our diverse talents, our perspectives and our hard work to ensure that tomorrow’s ECU will be even stronger than the ECU of today."

"Our team was focused on tissue and organ function more than we focused on the aesthetics,” she said. “So we weren’t seeking to build an organ that looked just like a liver."

"We were focused on creating innovations to help patients whose livers were failing by providing a bridge solution until a transplant was available."

"When you’re bringing different minds and expertise together to create exciting results, it really is a wonderful place to be,” she said. “The strengths ECU has in health care and health sciences, combined with the excellent academic research that’s going on, I think we’re going to create some wonderful things together as one ECU."

"I am an academic and a professor, an engineering education professor. I’m also a former administrator and I am an entrepreneur who is the CEO and founder of STEMinent, LLC, which offers a variety of offerings that have an umbrella of helping people to emerge whole and bold and strong in the workplace, or whichever environment they so choose. So that’s me in a nutshell."