キャリアニュース2019年10月23～30日

Life was on track just as we had planned: two university jobs, with tenure for Andrew and a clear path toward a tenure-track position for Yssa (check); the purchase of our first home (check); and three beautiful daughters (check). But 3 months after our youngest daughter Marie was born, she started to have seizures. After a terrifying ambulance ride and a nerve-wracking week in a children's hospital, Marie was diagnosed with ring chromosome 14 syndrome, an exceedingly rare and debilitating condition caused when the 14th chromosome is fused into a ring. Life for our family was about to switch tracks, and we were along for the ride but no longer in control. </br>![][1]</img> ILLUSTRATION: ROBERT NEUBECKER > “When Marie was born our smooth, straight ride … turned into a roller coaster.” Marie's seizures had no regard for class schedules or family time. We tried to keep up with our teaching duties, but it was difficult to lecture knowing that our young daughter could have a life-th

Catie Cuan did well in middle school math and science classes but “got made fun of a lot for being smart,” she recalled. She was also a dancer and “an intensely outgoing person, and as a middle schooler I felt like those identities couldn't always be reconciled with being a good student.” Today, Cuan is a graduate student in mechanical engineering at Stanford University—and a dancer and choreographer who has used robots in her artistic work. She is also one of the American Association for the Advancement of Science IF/THEN ambassadors, a group of women working in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who are sharing their stories and serving as high-profile role models for middle school girls. One of the goals of her ambassadorship, Cuan said, will be to show off the “multiple identities” of women in STEM. “I have a dance background. I'm now working in engineering, and that's OK,” she said. “I see this as a distinct opportunity for people to see others who look like them