Sarah J. Simon, P.E., is an environmental engineer and compliance manager with more than 30 years experience in the US EPA, MassDEP, consulting, as well as construction, manufacturing and renewable energy companies. Her work has reduced the impact of air emissions, water discharges and solid and hazardous waste, resulting in cleaner energy and more efficient processes. She holds an SB in civil engineering from MIT (1972), and MS in environmental engineering from Northeastern (1985). Now active as a Director of the New England Chapter of Environmental Entrepreneurs (www.E2.org) she is dedicated to a quick transition to clean energy. She has served as president of the Association of MIT Alumnae, Boston Section of SWE and the technical group of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. She enjoys organizing technical and professional development events for engineers and women, like Ms. DeCari, who have been students in STEM fields. (also, sailing with her husband and daughter.)
Molly Bird is a fourth year doctoral candidate in the MIT Biological Engineering Department. Her research explores how MK2 regulates the cellular stress response after DNA damage. She received her bachelors from Northwestern University in 2015. In addition to her research, Molly co-leads the award-winning group, Graduate Women at MIT. GWAMIT offers a leadership and empowerment conference each year and supports an active mentoring program. Molly also co-leads New England Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (NE GWiSE), a new alliance of groups of graduate women in STEM around Boston and the region. GWAMIT is an active member of NE GWiSE.
Harriet Fell is a Professor Emerita in the Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science. She got her SB (!964) and Ph.D.(1969) in math from MIT. She worked in Ergodic Theory and was tenured in math but left the math department in 1982 to help start the College of Computer Science. There she worked in cryptography and on designing and developing assistive technology. She is now happily retired cycling, painting, maintaining her late husband’s web site (sheldonbrown.com), and visiting her kids.
Frankenbook is an on-line collective reading and collaborative annotation experience of the original 1818 text of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, created by the MIT Press to celebrate the novel’s 200th anniversary. Even two centuries later, Shelley’s modern myth continues to shape the way people imagine science, technology, and their moral consequences. Frankenbook gives readers the opportunity to trace the scientific, technological, political, and ethical dimensions of the novel, to learn more about its historical context and enduring legacy, and to add their own annotations! Participants in the creation of Frankenbook will offer a demonstration of how to use this digital edition and discuss the considerations involved in publishing this timeless novel for our times.
Catherine Aheam, Ph.D., the PubPub Community Manager at MIT Press and Travis Rich, Ph.D., of the MIT Media Lab will be joined by Frankenbook contributors.
Deidre Lynch teaches 18th- and 19th-century literature, the Gothic, and women’s writing at Harvard, where she is Ernest Bernbaum Professor of English Literature. Her writing about Mary Shelley has appeared in The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley , The Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period , and other venues.
Dr. Natalie Kuldell leads BioBuilder, a nonprofit organization that takes cutting-edge research projects in synthetic biology and transforms them into teachable modules that students and teachers can investigate together. The BioBuilder curriculum is now taught in almost every US state and around the world. A BioBuilder textbook was published by O’Reilly Media. Last year, BioBuilder opened a community lab in Kendall Square’s LabCentral. Dr. Kuldell studied Chemistry as an undergraduate at Cornell, completed her doctoral and post-doctoral work at Harvard Medical School, and taught at Wellesley College before joining the faculty at MIT.