By Media Coverage | Apr 21, 2015
I am a mentor of women participating in the First Step program, sponsored by the Coalition for the Homeless in New York City. The Coalition’s First Step Job Training Program provides six 14-week classes serving roughly 140 women per year. The curriculum includes...
By Media Coverage | Apr 21, 2015
I am a professor of biology. Teaching is my calling, my passion and love. It is through teaching that I am freest to express my true self. I can play. Teaching is a playful dance staged in the wonders of biology. As the student learns the steps, the dance becomes a...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Apr 13, 2015
Two years ago, I had an intriguing theory about the origins of life. But I had nowhere to test it. I had spent my career at Amgen Corporation, studying enzymes that played a role in inflammatory diseases. But I had a growing interest in questions about how life began...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Apr 13, 2015
I am one of 20 school resource chaplains who work through the Fresno Police Department. Two days a week I work with first graders at an inner city elementary school. I eat lunch with them, join them on the playground and read them stories in their classrooms to help...
By Karen M. Sughrue | Apr 13, 2015
I spent 26 years with Intel Corporation as an engineer and manager with a background in C-programming, logic and problem solving. As I approached my retirement in 2013, my intention was to truly retire. But I knew I was eligible for the Encore Fellowship program that...
