Dasia Taylor didn’t expect to become a nationally recognized scientist at 17 years old.
The Iowa student has dedicated her life to equity work, from serving as one of her school district’s diversity equity leaders to participating in her high school’s Black History Game Show club.
But when her junior year chemistry teacher at Iowa City West High School, Carolyn Walling, was recruiting students for the Science Fair club, Taylor signed up, fascinated by the prospect of answering her own research question and incorporating economic equity into science by trying to remove financial barriers to medical treatment.
Over a year later, she’s seeking a patent for a creation she carefully curated in her high school chemistry lab: color-changing stitches that indicate when a wound is infected.
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This 17-year-old is harnessing the power of beet juice to make healing from surgery safer Share Updated: 12:52 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 By Anjali Huynh and Michelle Krupa, CNN
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TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 12:52 PM EDT Apr 17, 2021 By Anjali Huynh and Michelle Krupa, CNN Related video above: Can beet juice really boost your physical fitness?Dasia Taylor didn t expect to become a nationally recognized scientist at 17 years old.The Iowa student has dedicated her life to equity work, from serving as one of her school district s diversity equity leaders to participating in her high school s Black History Game Show club.But when her junior year chemistry teacher at Iowa City West High School, Carolyn Walling, was recruiting students for the Science Fair club, Taylor signed up, fa
A student harnessed the power of beets to make healing from surgery safer - and more equitable
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