Sociologist Margee Kerr knows what makes you scream, and why it might be a good thing to be scared.  Happy Halloween.

Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s first digital minister, after spending 20 years as a consultant she now uses her technology expertise to create a more transparent government.

Jordyn Castor was born blind but always encouraged to challenge expectations and as a software engineer at Apple she is helping to make computer programming accessible to the next generation of blind coders telling them, “blindness does not define you, it’s part of who you are as a person but it does not define you or what you can do in life.”

Light is the fastest moving thing that we know of–and Dr. Lene Hau has developed a way to slow it down and actually stop its motion all together.

Noticing a lack of formal laboratory training for women in scientific fields, Ellen Swallow Richards brokered a deal between MIT and the Women’s Education Association of Boston to have a dedicated lab space built and equipped in 1875.

Dr. Heather Berlin is a neuroscientist and the co-host of series like Science Goes to the Movies and Superhuman Showdown.

As the Space Program Manager at NASA headquarters Dr. Adriana Ocampo has many responsibilities including being the New Frontiers lead program executive.

Tsai-Fan Yu was a doctor, college professor, the first woman to be appointed as a full professor at Mount Sinai Hospital, and was a leader in efforts to understand the condition known as gout.

Watching her own mother pass away from breast cancer directed much of the career Dr. Vera Peters and helped her to develop new treatments using radiation therapies.

Dr. Deborah S. Jin was a pioneering physicist and winner of the MacArthur Fellowship “genius grant.”