Welcome to STEMCasts: Capturing the journeys of successful STEM professionals. In this episode, we have a conversation with Ruchi Wadhawan, System Architect and Ambika Gopalan, Product Manager. Where their paths have led them and how they found themselves in the engineering field. Highlights from this episode include:

• A career transition.
• The name of the game in hardware.
• I thought math was hard. Trying things out.
• Can hardware exist without software?
• The tremendous amount of engineering involved.
• Failure is the one that is a constant. 

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A Preview of STEMCast Episode 5

Welcome to STEMCasts: Capturing the journeys of successful STEM professionals. In this episode, we have a dual conversation covering two careers.     Capturing the journeys of Elizabeth Morris, Director of Intellectual Property Law and Maureen Reilly, Civil Engineer and Groundwater Hydrologist. Highlights from this episode include:

• The iPhone rubber band patent.
• Yes, IP law is fascinating!
• Groundwater, a giant puzzle.
• Darcy's Law for fluid flow.
• Rugby rules and job interviews.
• Explaining something complicated simply. 

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A Preview of STEMCast Episode 4

Welcome to STEMCasts: Capturing the journeys of successful STEM professionals. In this episode, we have a conversation with Emily Cunningham,  a PhD student, Astronomy & Astrophysics, UC Santa Cruz. Switching roles from Episode 1, Raja interviews Emily about her STEM journey. From solving math problems in her dad's car to a successful researcher at UC Santa Cruz. Highlights from this episode include:

• How she went about deciding on a career and the different options she had.
• The essence of research is about doing science.
• Taking a break from school to spend a year in Paris.
• The path to becoming the expert.

Thanks to our host for this episode: Raja GuhaThakurta, Astronomer & Professor at UC Santa Cruz.

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A Preview of STEMCast Episode 3

A Preview for STEMCast Episode 2

A preview of STEMCast Episode 1

Welcome to STEMCasts: Capturing the journeys of successful STEM professionals. In this episode, we have a conversation with John Benoit,  covering his journey from a Principal Engineer at Intel to teaching at Downtown College Prep, San Jose, a charter high school serving low-income students and a leader in first-generation college success. Highlights from this episode include:

• Glimpses into the life and work of a hardware engineer.
• Lessons learned from the greatest mentor of all time.
• Thoughts on math and the growth mindset.
• DCP: changing lives & communities.

Thanks to our host for this episode: Berenice Espino, STEM Student at Downtown College Prep, San Jose, CA.

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Welcome to STEMCasts: Capturing the journeys of successful STEM professionals. In this episode, we have a conversation with Raja GuhaThakurta, an Astronomer & Professor at UC Santa Cruz who's research is focused on the formation and evolution of galaxies. His group at UCSC led the SPLASH survey of red giant stars in our closest large neighbor Andromeda (M31) and its dwarf satellites using the Keck II 10-m telescope and DEIMOS spectrograph.  Link to the very successful Science Internship Program founded by Prof. Raja GuhaThakurta Highlights from this episode include:

• Recollections on becoming a latent carrier of the "astronomy bug" at an early age
• Taking the plunge at Princeton, succeeding in spite of challenges
• The people part of the journey, the most important part
• Get acquainted with Andromeda: our nearest neighbor.
• What it takes to succeed in STEM and Raja's advice for high school students.

Thanks to our host for this episode: Emily Cunningham, Graduate Student at UC Santa Cruz.

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