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AAAS "Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition

American Association for the Advancement of Science
"Catalyzing Advocacy in Science and Engineering" Workshop Student Competition

2020 WINNERS

Shirley Huang

Shirley Huang is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Her research focuses on language development in bilingual children and emotional well-being in immigrant children from low socioeconomic backgrounds. As both a healthcare provider and a scientist, she is interested in learning how politics and policies impact culturally-linguistically diverse populations—populations that historically have been considered vulnerable. Shirley is passionate about advocacy work, and she applies her research to a larger scale in science, health, and educational policymaking. 

Marielle Pellegrino

Marielle Pellegrino is a fourth year PhD student in Aerospace Engineering. She is a Draper Fellow and Smead Scholar working in the Celestial and Spaceflight Mechanics Laboratory at CU Boulder. She studies debris mitigation at high altitude orbits, like medium Earth orbit, where GPS satellites are, and geosynchronous orbit, where communication satellites are. She looks at using the Sun's light and chaotic resonances to bring satellites back at their end of life to avoid being a collision hazard for functioning satellites in those regions. In her free time, Marielle also runs a blog on astronomy and aerospace engineering, missaerospace.com, and pursues various local science communication opportunities.

Tasha Snow

Tasha Snow is a fifth-year PhD Candidate in the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her doctoral research focuses on new ways to use satellites to study ocean impacts on ice fluctuations in Greenland and Antarctica. She is passionate about communicating science, especially climate change, to the public, and connecting it with policymaking. She periodically gives live talks at the Fiske Planetarium on climate change effects on Colorado and recently helped produce a science-policy podcast series, called Sciencing with Purpose.

 

Past Winners

2019 Winners  
Katie Chambers

Katie Chambers
Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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Claire Lamman

Claire Lamman
Astrophysics and Physics
University of Colorado Boulder

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Danielle Lemmon

Danielle Lemmon
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of Colorado Boulder

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Madeline Polmear

Madeline Polmear
Civil Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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2018 Winners  
Julia Bakker-Arkema

Julia Bakker-Arkema
Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Colorado Boulder

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Kaitlin McCreery

Kaitlin McCreery
Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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2017 Winners  
Adalyn Fyhrie

Adalyn Fyhrie
Astrophysical and Planetary Science,
University of Colorado Boulder

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Caroline Havrilla

Caroline Havrilla
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Colorado Boulder

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2016 Winners  
Angela Boag

Angela Boag
Environmental Studies
University of Colorado Boulder

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Nicholas Valcourt

Sarah Welsh-Huggins
Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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2015 Winners  
Thomas Reynolds

Thomas Reynolds
Chemical and Biological Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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Nicholas Valcourt

Nicholas Valcourt
Civil Systems Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder

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2014 Winners  
Emily Pugach

Emily Pugach
Molecular, Cell and Development Biology
University of Colorado Boulder

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Chris Schaefbauer Chris Schaefbauer
Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder