Based in Brazil, Fernanda Ferreira is a science writer who covers a range of STEM (and occasionally non-STEM) topics, from textile conservation to vaccine stockpiles.
“He taught me what it means to be both a scientist and an activist,” said Alana Van Dervort, a PhD student in biological and biomedical sciences (BBS), as she introduced Dr. Tyrone Hayes at the Jocelyn Spragg Memorial Lecture. When Hayes was himself a graduate student, he was told not to get involved in activism, to let the science speak for itself. “A few years ago, I crossed that line,” Hayes said of the moment he became an advocate, “because the other side was not letting the science speak for itself.”
