Diversity in STEM
This gay cryptanalyst and mathematician was famous for his aid in breaking German ciphers in World War II.
Who is Alan Turing?
This gives plants their green pigment.
What is Chlorophyll?
The expanded name of SACNAS.
What is the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science?
The name of the first satellite sent into space.
What is Sputnik?
Term for a person of combined Spanish and Amerindian descent
What is mestizo?
The study of volcanoes, lava, magma, and related geological, geophysical and geochemical phenomena.
What is vulcanology?
This African-American woman's cervical cancer cells were acquired without consent to establish the HeLa cell line, the first immortal human cell line.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
When the dinosaurs went extinct.
What is never?
This element is at the center of the SACNAS logo
What is Helium?
A lightyear is a measure of this
What is distance?
On this date Mexico's army defeated an overwhelming number of French forces at the Battle of Puebla.
What is May 5 or Cinco de Mayo?
The study of inland waters.
What is limnology?
This phrase/metaphor is used to describe the attrition of minorities, particularly women, from students, to graduates to professionals in STEM fields.
What is the leaky pipeline?
These three agricultural plants make up what is known in several Native American cultures as the Three Sisters.
What are corn, bean, and squash?
The names of three other OSU minority STEM organizations.
What are: MANNRS, SHPE, AISES, NSBE, ABP, SASE?
The type of particles that make up Saturn’s rings
What is ice?
This equation is used to find the roots of a second order polynomial equation
What is the Quadratic Formula?
The study of science and engineering of interacting surfaces in relative motion.
What is tribology?
This Japanese-American scientist is known for his research on string field theory and is a famous science popularizer with 10 published sci-comm books.
Who is Dr. Michio Kaku?
This special glandular secretion is used to feed larvae and adult queen honey bees.
What is royal jelly?
"At SACNAS we're achieving ____ _____ in STEM"
What is true diversity?
The approximate age of the universe.
What is 13.8 billion years? (~12-14 ok)
One of the three cultures that have influenced modern Mexico's famous party activity of the piñata.
What is China, Spain, or Maya?
A pseudomedicine primarily focused on measurements of the human skull, based on the concept that the brain is the organ of the mind, and that certain brain areas have localized, specific functions or modules.
What is phrenology?
This decorated botanist, Director at the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, has published books including "Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses," and "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants."
Who is Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer?
The largest order of animals (most species).
What is Coleoptera (beetles) OR Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps)?
The name of one island/territory that has a SACNAS chapter.
What is Puerto Rico, Guam, or Hawaii?
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way. (Bonus: its distance from the Milky Way).
What is the Andromeda Galaxy (M31, NGC 224)? What is 2.5e6 lightyears?
This Period ended approximately 65 million years ago.
What is the Cretaceous?
The science that uses the spacing between the annual growth rings of trees to date their exact year of formation.
What is dendrochronology?
Known as the "Black Edison," owns over 60 patents including electric trolleys, the third rail, and a patent he *won* when sued by Thomas Edison for the invention of the induction telegraph, which allowed men to communicate by voice over telegraph wires.
Who is Granville T. Woods?
These environments are currently experiencing extreme levels of anthropogenic noise pollution.
The early traction of SACNAS began with this subset of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
What is the Chicano Civil Rights Movement (or El Movimiento)?
The brightest objects in the universe.
What are quasars? (Gamma ray bursts OK)
The order of magnitude for the number of insects to every human on Earth.
What is 100 million or 1 billion (to 1)?
Known as the "theory of knowledge," this branch of philosophy is concerned with the study, scope and nature of knowledge.
What is epistemology?