As a Ph.D. student in cognitive neuroscience, Erin Morrow is comfortable in a lab. This summer, she’s expanding her comfort level to include media interviews, authorship and a research-based type of activism.

When she was 20, Morrow was diagnosed with an atrioventricular block, which prevents electrical signals from passing between the heart’s chambers. A state-of-the-art pacemaker was required. As a STEM scholar, Morrow knew well the years of research that went into it.

“That would not have been possible without the support of decades of research,” Morrow said.

Read the whole story at the UC Newsroom

Watch a video featuring Morrow below

About

View all post by