Through Tennessee Explorers, you will meet six Tennesseans that explore different areas of science. You will see William Robinson and his computer architecture for safety and security; Vicki Green gathering data about the behavior of atoms in a particle accelerator; Tiffiny Tung exploring her field…
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Keivan Stassun describes his passion for interstellar mysteries.
Michael Goldfarb discusses his journey to developing robotic devices for disabilities.
Rhea Seddon discusses what it was like to become the "First Lady of Space". She describes her journey from middle school science classes to being an astronaut on the Space Shuttle.
Tiffiny Tung is a Vanderbilt University professor. She goes exploring to find skeletons from which she can use data to understand the lives of the people from that time.
William Robinson is a professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. He was the first African American to win the National Science Foundation Career Award.
Vicki Green describes her journey to becoming the first female member of the Physics Department at Vanderbilt University. Her interest in how things fit together and come apart led her to working with atoms and exploring their makeups.