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" I find the world with its inequities and injustices to be messy, unfair, and complicated. The cosmos, on the other hand, is orderly and beautiful - this I find terribly alluring and captivating. "

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" My students may have dexterity with the equations they're required to know, but they lack the capacity to apply their knowledge to real-life problems. This critical shortcoming appears in high school and possibly in elementary grades - long before college. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Knowledge

School

College

" Individuals reporting on their own experience with particular therapies would provide first-hand accounts that could be considered in the improvement of drug design. "

" Growing up in Delhi, India, I did puzzles, explored numbers, and searched for patterns in everyday settings long before I ever saw an equation. "

" I am a phenomenologist - I work on developing theoretical models that are constrained by observations. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Work

I Am

" Research in basic sciences now requires resources that no one country can provide. "

" We scientists have an obsession with unification, a grand synthesis. And dark matter is an irritating missing piece. "

" Perhaps more than English or history, STEM subjects require an enormous amount of foundational learning before students can become competent. "

" Finding the first seed black holes could help reveal how the relation between black holes and their host galaxies evolved over time. "

" Everyone acknowledges that there is a political part to tenure, but no one likes to admit it. "

" Black holes are enigmatic astronomical objects, areas where the gravity is so immense that it has warped spacetime so that not even light can escape. "

" I'm an astrophysicist and a professor, so my day job involves manipulating intractable numbers that characterize our universe. "

" I fell in love with the night sky when I first looked through a telescope as a young girl growing up in Delhi. "

" The early universe was a dusty place, and the UV radiation from the hot, young black holes and stars would get enshrouded by dust, re-radiated, and scattered into red wavelengths like infra-red, causing these objects to remain obscured. "

" The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark matter - the bending of light as well. "

" Dark matter is one of the dominant constituents of the universe, which piled up in certain parts of the universe due to gravity, and in those regions, galaxies were formed. It is the unseen thing that holds the universe together. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Together

Universe

" Evidence-based reasoning underpins all scientific thinking, and it involves testing hypotheses or theories against data. Validating a theory requires replicable measurements from independent groups with different equipment and methods of analysis. Convergence of evidence is critical to the acceptance of a scientific idea. "

" All the particles that we are made of only account for about four per cent of the cosmic inventory. "

" Being nimble and ready to change our minds if need be is an attribute that is crucial to live and thrive in a society that is powered by science and technology, both as an individual and as an engaged citizen. "

" If you know the shape of the lens and the image you get, you can work out the path that light followed between the object and your eye. "

" It is my idea that the public needs to be better educated about the nature of scientific inquiry and how the scientific process works. I firmly believe that this is the only effective way forward to combat the widespread distrust in facts and science. "

" We knew from theoretical models that mergers of massive, gas-rich galaxies were more frequent in the past. Now we've found that these mergers are responsible for producing both the nearby obscured quasar population and their distant cousins. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Responsible

Cousins

" In addition to a well-funded school system, we need to encourage and exploit innovative approaches for learning outside the classroom. "

" We must face up to a difficult paradox: The U.S. can maintain a leading position in science only by giving up its desire to be number one. "

" I am a professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University, where I teach an introductory class in cosmology. I see the deficiencies that first-year students show up with. "

" The geometry, the content, and the fate of the universe are all intricately linked. If you know two, you can deduce the third. "

" The pace and demands in any field, be it genetics, nanotechnology or cosmology, can only be met with increased international cooperation and collaborative projects. "

" We already have a pretty good knowledge of the universe's mass-energy content, so if we can get a handle on its geometry, then we will be able to work out exactly what the fate of the universe will be. "

" We cannot decide on the efficacy of a medical treatment by counting the number of 'Likes' an intervention receives on Facebook; no matter what, professionals will still need to conduct continued clinical trials and evaluate their outcomes carefully. "

" We need to make sure that the Voyager probes carrying a record of human civilization speeding beyond our solar system remain an introduction to the world that sent them and not an epitaph for a civilization that caused its own ruin. "

" Mental discipline and tenacity in the face of obstacles are traits that have greatly helped me in both my personal and professional journey thus far. I am also very optimistic by nature and tend to focus on the positive and remain hopeful when faced with adversity. "

Priyamvada Natarajan

Positive

Nature