{"id":3397,"date":"2019-05-13T13:38:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T18:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/?page_id=3397"},"modified":"2019-05-13T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T19:24:45","slug":"deborah-harris","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/deborah-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Deborah Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deborah Harris<\/strong><\/div>\n
MINERvA experiment co-spokesperson and DUNE Near Detector scientist<\/strong>
\n\t\tFermilab, United States, and York University, Canada<\/strong><\/div>\n
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When my daughter was in 7th<\/sup> grade, she had to participate in an in-class debate about whether Barbie dolls were having positive or negative influences on girls. When one student pointed out that the \u2018Scientist Barbie\u2019 was an example of a positive role model, my daughter cried out, \u2018No she\u2019s not \u2013 if Scientist Barbie was a chemist, she should be wearing gloves and safety goggles, and if she were a physicist, she should be wearing a hard hat and closed-toe shoes.\u2019 Like my daughter, I grew up around physicists and I saw that they loved their jobs and got to make really cool detectors. I am excited to be able to use a completely new kind of detector now on DUNE, and I enjoy talking to the public about my job. I end up talking to folks about neutrinos in the strangest places: not only 350 feet underground at Fermilab, but also at bluegrass festivals, volleyball tournaments, and homeless shelters. I am trying to make sure that you don\u2019t have to be the daughter of a scientist to know what we do and what we are learning about the universe.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Curious about the project? Learn more about DUNE, LBNF and PIP-II<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deborah Harris MINERvA experiment co-spokesperson and DUNE Near Detector scientist Fermilab, United States, and York University, Canada When my daughter was in 7th grade, she had to participate in an in-class debate about whether Barbie dolls were having positive or negative influences on girls. When one student pointed out that the \u2018Scientist Barbie\u2019 was an… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3397","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3397\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunescience.org\/facesofdune\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}