'Speed Dating' With STEM Professionals At Moorestown Friends

MOORESTOWN, NJ — Moorestown Friends School graduates will return to campus to meet with current STEM Club members and other students and community members to tell their stories next week.

The girls in the club will host a “speed-dating” panel with alumnae currently in STEM fields on Monday, May 21, 5:45 p.m. in the Dining Hall Commons.

In addition to telling their stories, alumnae will provide advice on the pursuit of careers in STEM fields, which is currently made up mostly of men.

The panelists come from a variety of educational disciplines including coastal environmental management, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, and medicine.

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Alumnae guests scheduled to appear include:

• Rebecca Cope ’07, ORISE Research Scientist at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region III;
• Kari Myers, Ph.D. ’00, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at National Institutes of General Medical Sciences;
• Rebecca Salowe ’09, Project Manager & Scientific Writer at The Scheie Eye Institute; Adrienne Saludades ’11 is a Clinical Research Coordinator at the University of Pennsylvania; and
• Blair Dickinson Schroeder ’00, Pediatrician at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.

Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. There will be a presentation from 5:45 p.m. to 6 p.m., followed by a one-hour period for small group discussions with the panelists, in a speed-dating format.

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