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As only the fourth woman (all of them white) to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, [UCLA’s] Ghez understands that the Nobel also confers on recipients the responsibility of serving as an international role model for girls contemplating careers in science and for women scientists.
“I think at the start, there are a series of executive orders which are in process and ready to go. At the top of that list will be a campaign promise that he made at the end, which was to immediately reverse the Trump policy of separating families – and reuniting children with their parents,” said UCLA’s Matt Barreto (approx. 8:13 mark).
MORE Lindsay Howard and Jay Mandal planned to try for a second child this year, but then the pandemic hit. Photo courtesy of Lindsay Howard.
Right now, 15-month-old Evie is an only child. But that wasn’t always the plan.
“We had these grand plans. My friend was going to get married in Italy in September of last year. So we were like, ‘Okay, we’re going to go on vacation, travel around Europe,’” says Evie’s mother Lindsay Howard. “It was the perfect time to start thinking about trying again.”
Then the pandemic hit. The wedding was canceled. Howard and her husband, Jay Mandal, both work in health care, and are nervous about their heightened risk of contracting the virus. So they’ve decided to hold off on trying for another kid.