The human side of science

Sal Wanying Fu knows there's more to science than numbers. The summer of 2019 was a pivotal one for Sal Wanying Fu, who had just graduated from Pomona College as a physics student with a focus on astronomy. After months of applications, tests, interviews and evaluations, she was finally ready to begin researching stars and galaxies as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley. At the same time, astronomers were designing a new astronomical instrument, one with abilities far be...