Going into graduate school, Victoria Muller Ewald said she never thought she could learn to code, let alone consider it would one day be integral to her research. Now, she’s involved in initiatives that encourage students from middle school to graduate school, women in particular, to code.
Currently a second-year postdoctoral fellow in the Iowa Neuroscience Specialty Program in Research Education, Muller Ewald said she studies the cerebellum and credits coding as an essential skill in the process.
“I went from studying the front side of the brain in animal models to studying the backside of the brain in humans — very different,” she said. “And the one thing that bridges the gap is that I know how to code.”
Muller Ewald said her current initiatives — like her upcoming coding boot camp through the UI’s neuroscience graduate club Hacky Hour, and her upcoming project for high schoolers within the national organization Girls Who Code — are a response to the lack of coding classes she had access to as a neuroscience graduate student.
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Currently a second-year postdoctoral fellow in the Iowa Neuroscience Specialty Program in Research Education, Muller Ewald said she studies the cerebellum and credits coding as an essential skill in the process.
“I went from studying the front side of the brain in animal models to studying the backside of the brain in humans — very different,” she said. “And the one thing that bridges the gap is that I know how to code.”
Muller Ewald said her current initiatives — like her upcoming coding boot camp through the UI’s neuroscience graduate club Hacky Hour, and her upcoming project for high schoolers within the national organization Girls Who Code — are a response to the lack of coding classes she had access to as a neuroscience graduate student.
Continue reading: https://dailyiowan.com/2021/10/06/ui-neuroscientist-empowers-women-to-code/
