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Laura Mast

Environmental Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Laura Mast is an NSF Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies resource recovery, specifically at extract rare earth elements from coal fly ash, a waste material produced from burning coal for electricity. She was recently the lead organizer for ComSciCon-Atlanta, a workshop training graduate students in science communication, and she runs a start up that streamlines voting at STEM competitions.

Laura has authored 6 articles

David Hu sells quirky research with an apartment full of snakes

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"How To Walk On Water And Climb Up Walls" welcomes readers to the strange world of biolocomotion

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Meet Katsuko Saruhashi, a resilient geochemist who detected nuclear fallout in the Pacific

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Her deep belief that science and society were linked left a lasting impact

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100 vignettes that will make you excited to talk about the weather

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Andy Revkin and Lisa Mechaley's book tells the history of weather, from the creation of the atmosphere to today

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Sister Miriam Michael Stimson turned early models of DNA inside out

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Not everyone thinks of a Catholic nun when they think “scientist.”

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Coal ash contains lead, arsenic, and mercury – and it's mostly unregulated

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Can science find solutions where policy lags before the damage deepens?

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Shortages of rare earth elements could limit clean energy development

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We've started searching for rare earth elements in some unlikely places

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