Women Making STEAM invites women/women-identifying professionals to share their impacts and research contributions in Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, or Math (STEAM).

Women Making STEAM: Carol Prusa (Artist)

Monday, September 9, 7-8pm

Online/Zoom - https://broward.libnet.info/event/11155541

Event Description: Artist Carol Prusa intertwines art, science and engineering to create symbolically charged work responding to liminal locations, using graphite pours and silverpoint drawing in a dance between the known and unknown, offering insight into the mystery of our existence while embracing the magnitude of the universe with the lawlessness of imagination to distill the sacred. As Einstein stated, “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” This talk will discuss the Harvard Computers, women who radically informed us of our place and provided the foundation to how we understand our universe, expressed through art. As well, the materials and methods needed to engineer this work, including the work resulting from witnessing three total solar eclipses.

Women Making STEAM: Dr. Elizabeth Starling (Physicist)

Saturday, September 21, 2-3pm

Hybrid:

In-person, Main Library – https://broward.libnet.info/event/11399156

Online/Zoom - https://broward.libnet.info/event/11520396

Event Description: *Coming soon.*

About the Scientist: Dr. Elizabeth Starling is currently an instructor of physics at Florida Atlantic University. She completed her PhD in experimental high energy physics at CERN through the Université libre de Bruxelles.

Women Making STEAM – Dr. Marie Henderson (NASA Research Scientist)

Saturday, September 28, 11am-12pm EST

Online/Zoom - https://broward.libnet.info/event/11520273

Event Description: Dr. Marie Henderson (she/her) is a planetary scientist with the University of Maryland Baltimore County and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 2021. As a postdoctoral research associate, Dr. Henderson studies volcanic landscapes on the Moon and Mars using an orbit-to-outcrop research methodology. She employs orbital imagery from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Moon Mineralogy Mapper spectroscopic data. Previously, Dr. Henderson was employed in the private sector at Malin Space Science Systems, specializing in the processing and science dissemination of images taken by the MArs Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Building from experience in strategic and tactical mission operations of the Curiosity Rover and analog operation tests (JETT5/RISE2), Dr. Henderson strives to prepare astronauts and robotic missions to explore and study volcanic deposits when they return to the Moon through leading analog field campaigns to study the textural and spectral properties of volcanic pyroclasts.



 Women Making STEAM is sponsored by the Broward Public Library Foundation.