Abbie Stevens, Phd Email & Phone Number

As the CoLab Studio program manager at the MSU Museum, I bring people together to address pressing global issues at the intersection of science, art, culture, and technology. The most recent CoLab Studio exhibition at the MSU Museum, "Food Fight!" (January-June 2024), looked at global food security, food production and consumption, and our complex relationships with food.Formerly, as an astronomer, I researched black holes and neutron stars in X-ray binaries to look for signatures of general relativity. The observations I used came from from X-ray telescopes like NICER and NuSTAR, and my typical analytical methods included smoothing and de-noising, Fourier techniques, rms and covariance, fitting models to spectra, and Python software development.I also do public outreach and science consulting/advising on creative projects. I've been an invited panelist at Adler After Dark in Chicago and the Women in Physics Canada in Montreal; presented art+science collaborations at the MSU Broad Museum Art Lab, REO Town Reading Series, and Amsterdam Science-Art Slam; led activities at science day events in upstate New York, Edmonton, Amsterdam, and Michigan; given classroom talks in person and virtually; given interviews with the MSU branch of the Associated Press on astronomy news; and given popular science presentations for Nerd Nite Edmonton, LogiCON Edmonton, Nerd Nite Amsterdam, MSU Science Festival, the Abrams Planetarium, Astronomy on Tap Lansing, Skype a Scientist Star Wars Day, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Calgary.If you are interested in having me give a public science talk, speak on a panel, or advise on incorporating scientific concepts in artistic work and storytelling, please get in touch!

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  Associate Director, Media Tech

  Publicis Health Media

  East Lansing, Mi, Us