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Zarnoch Studies The Health Of Our Waters, Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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Some people look at scientists and think of them as narrowly focused on obscure issues, but that is not the case with Dr. Chester Zarnoch. “You’re not just exploring the biology and the chemistry associated with the problem you’re working on, but also thinking about social implications, about economic implications,” he says.

A native of Manhattan, Zarnoch has studied and worked his entire life in New York, from receiving his bachelor’s degree at Southampton College of Long Island University, his master’s in the philosophy of biology at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, a master’s in biology …

Spokony Is A Hands-On Researcher, Teacher Of Genetics., Aldemaro Romero Jr.

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“When I was very little, my parents always took

us to the American Museum of Natural History,

the Bronx Zoo, and then even just watching on TV

we would pick the shows that were about science.”

That is how Dr. Rebecca Spokony traces back her

interest in science.

A native of Brooklyn Heights, New York City,

she remembers how when her mother was an

undergraduate, she worked on fruit flies. “Even

though she did not go on to work on science after

she graduated from college, it still was important

to her, and she shared that with me, and I …