Spotlights

The most recent government shutdown lasted an unprecedented 35 days from December 22, 2018, to January 25, 2019. While this shutdown affected many aspects of the day-to-day lives of those employed in the furloughed agencies, we wanted to know how it impacted those in scientific research.

Want to do something different with your weekend? What about spending a day in a place full of scientists, learning about how things work and doing fun hands-on experiments, for free? That's what the annual North Bay Science Discovery Day is all about! This event has reached over 10,000 science-loving attendees to promote the pursuit of STEM careers every year since 2011.

The annual Molecular & Cellular Biology Training Program retreat, hosted at the beautiful Stanford Sierra Camp on Fallen Leaf Lake, featured an inspiring keynote address, short talks from past and present trainees, and a data blitz for professors to advertise their lab to first-year graduate students.