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Hope Jahren

Biography

Hope Jahren

Hope Jahren has received three Fulbright Awards in geobiology and is one of four scientists, and the only woman, to have been awarded both of the Young Investigator Medals given in the earth sciences. Named by Popular Science in 2005 as one of the “Brilliant 10” young scientists, she has taught and pursued independent research at universities around the country, most recently as a tenured professor at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa in Honolulu.

Hope Jahren

Books by Hope Jahren

Lab Girl
by Hope Jahren - Memoir, Nonfiction, Science

LAB GIRL is a collection of stories detailing acclaimed scientist, Hope Jahren’s childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and father, how she found sanctuary in science and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”, the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries of scientific work. At the core of the book is her relationship with Bill, a brilliant and wounded man who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the US and back again, over the Atlantic to the North Pole and tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home.