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Travel to the Extremes (In the Name of Science)

I was a military brat. My dad was in the Navy, so every 3 to 4 months we’d pack everything up and travel to a new military base for my dad’s new assignment. By the time I was in middle school, I had lived half of my life overseas in places like Scotland and a tiny 3 mile by 8 mile island off the tip of the boot of Italy. I loved immersing myself in a new culture and picking up bits of the language. Even the transfer from South Texas to Southern California was exciting. I lived right by Sea World and the San Diego Zoo! I blame this exciting upbringing for my love of travel.

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Vanilla Macias-Rodriguez

March On?

Last week, more than 300,000 people descended on Manhattan for The People’s Climate March. Bill DeBlasio, the New York mayor who does not take the subway to work; Leonardo DiCaprio, who often parties on yachts in the south of France; Al Gore, who left in a rather large SUV; and several Californians, who flew 3000 miles, marched with paper signs and coffee cups which they left littered along the route to proclaim their anger at the politicians and people of the world who they feel are not doing enough to help stop the increasing probl

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Green Mountain Energy

Vanilla Macias-Rodriguez

Faculty Q & A with Science Teacher Vanilla Macias-Rodriguez

In love with science since childhood, Vanilla Macias-Rodriguez had plans to become a pediatrician. In college, however, she realized she was too tender-hearted to work with sick children. Instead, she decided to bring her love of science to young minds. After earning a B.A. in Biology with a double minor in Chemistry and Speech Communications at Texas A&M University, she taught in her native Texas before relocating to New York with her husband.

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James Vescovi