Profile
Paige Brown
soooooooo sad
My CV
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Education:
B.S. and M.S. (Masters Degree completed in 2008) in Biological Engineering at LSU. 1 year PhD experience at Washington University in St. Louis, Biomedical Engineering. Currently a PhD Student in Mass Communications at Manship School, LSU.
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Qualifications:
Science Blogger for Nature Publishing Group (http://blogs.nature.com/from_the_lab_bench/).
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Work History:
At Louisiana State University, I work as a Biological Engineering Graduate Research Fellow, as a Communications Intern in the Office of Research Communications, and as a swimming and diving coach! At Wash Univ. in St. Louis I worked as a Biomedical Engineering PhD Student.
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Current Job:
Mass Communication (Science Journalism) PhD Student at LSU and LSU Research Communications Intern
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My Typical Day:
No single day is the same, but somewhere in there are usually the following: Interviewing some big-name scientist doing revolutionary research at LSU and beyond, filming for my new environmental communications film documentary CO2Bayou, creating surveys to understand how people engage in science in their everyday lives, walking my black boxer Mojo, and drinking coffee!
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What I'd do with the prize money:
If I won the prize money, I would have the means to continue producing my new environmental film, CO2 Bayou (http://co2bayou.wordpress.com/). I hope to get young students in Louisiana involved in this project in the future, and I need new camera equipment and the means to distribute this film to Louisiana officials and science communicators!
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My Interview
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How would you describe yourself in 3 words?
Cheerful, inspired, goofy!
Were you ever in trouble at school?
Not really… although in the 4th grade my parents were called in because I was failing P.E. (I couldn’t catch a ball) and because I was falling behind in the slowest reading group. I ended up being a championship collegiate athlete in the sport of diving and a scientist, so I guess those early ‘failures’ didn’t mean much!
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Paramore – she is amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH9A6tn_P6g
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
Be an amazing photographer/videographer, take more classes in environmental science and engineering (which I probably will do soon — I’m a life-long learner!), and have electron vision to be able to ‘see’ nanomaterials!!!
Tell us a joke.
How fast do you have to run to get away from an alligator? Considering they can run up to 25 mph, just a bit faster than the slowest person in your group!
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