wildlife biologist | Stock Photo
wildlife biologist | Stock Photo
“Science has quite literally taken me around the world,” says Rae Wynn-Grant, an Emory alumna and wildlife biologist whose field research has spanned six continents.
“But you don’t have to physically travel to be a great scientist,” she adds. “I want people to know that there are many different ways that science can expand your horizons.”
Wynn-Grant returns to Atlanta as a featured speaker to launch this year’s Atlanta Science Festival, set for March 10-25. The festival is bigger and more expansive than ever with more than 150 events and an overarching theme: Where will science take you?
Science lovers are invited to travel back in time to learn about the cultural history of water at the Carlos Museum, enter a chance to win a trip to a U.S. National Park and glimpse the future through a tour of Hermeus, an Atlanta corporation developing the world’s fastest aircraft.
“Often people think of science as something done in a laboratory by men in white coats,” says Meisa Salaita, executive co-director of Science ATL, the nonprofit organization that produces the Atlanta Science Festival. “We want to showcase that science is happening right around you and everywhere in the world. And it doesn’t matter who you are. You can be a part of it.”
The Atlanta Science Festival, now in its 10th year, was co-founded by Emory, Georgia Tech and the Metro Atlanta Chamber.
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