We all come into the world under certain conditions, but those change time and again throughout our lives. What happens when the conditions we’re used to, or expecting, change? Join us on June 5 at The Science Center’s OMNIMAX Theater for 4 true stories about adapting your expectations and learning the heights you can reach!
Hosted by Sam Lyons and Peter Michalski
Stories by:
Dr. Sarah England
Sarah K. England is a professor and researcher in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Wash U Medicine. For nearly 30 years she has directed a lab focused on understanding normal and aberrant uterine activity during pregnancy. To understand maternal health at a policy level, she became a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. During this time, she worked in the office of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for one year working on policies related to maternal child health issues, newborn screening, the healthcare workforce, and health disparities. Today, she uses this experience to develop translational studies in her lab.
Dr. Kasey Fowler-Finn
Dr. Kasey Fowler-Finn has lived in Saint Louis for over a decade since joining the faculty in Saint Louis University’s Biology Department in 2014. She is a mother to two young children, an outdoor enthusiast, avid rock climber, stained glass hobbyist, and daily visitor to Tower Grove Park. From a young age, Kasey has been enthralled with insects, spiders, and other aspects of the more hidden world around us. Her fascination for vibrational communication (sound that travels as tiny vibrations through solid objects like plant stems and leaves rather than through the air) started in college and she has studied this ubiquitous, but little-known, form of communication ever since. In addition to trying to understand the diversity of sounds (emulating little whales, frog choruses and even construction equipment) that insects produce, Kasey’s research group strives to understand how insects and arachnids respond to a rapidly-changing world. Kasey is dedicated to increasing diversity and access to STEM and has collaborated with her students and with artists to bring her research to life for people of all walks of life.
More stories to be announced!