The Museum of Watery Relations, an interactive project by anthropologist Amber Abrams, is challenging people to rethink the water-access crisis in one of the world’s most unequal countries.
When Shane McCracken launched the student-led STEM enrichment activity, I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here! in 2008, he was in for a few surprises. “Contrary to many myths, we found that scientists are often great communicators – in fact, they’re even better than most politicians,” he quips.
Heading up the Science Engine of Robert Downey Jr.’s Footprint Coalition, Rachel Kropa wants to shake up funding norms for innovative ideas.
Ukrainian researcher Kateryna Terletska has spent her career deciphering oceanic mysteries and engaging young people in science. Everything changed when the Russian invasion brought war to her doorstep.
There is growing awareness of discrimination and underrepresentation of minority groups in STEM. Carrie Boyce and her team of volunteers are standing up for a queerer STEM culture and setting the stage on fire.
Xaviera Kowo has designed an award-winning waste-processing robot and aspires to take it to the streets of Africa.
Regina Honu is a leading light for African women in STEM. At home, she is involved in driving government policy, and globally, she has been recognised as one of the BBC’s hundred most inspirational and innovative women. In 2017 she took home emerging global leaders award from the US’s Northwestern University Roberta Buffet Institute. There are many more to name, but it is not these awards, nor the boards she sits on, of which she is most proud. That distinction falls to the Soronko Academy.
Children with limb differences will need at least 10 replacement limbs by the time they reach the age of 20, putting prosthetics well out of reach for many families. At about $2,500 each, the prosthetic bionic limbs developed by Cure Bionics come in at a fraction of the cost of the usual options.