PhD Archive

  • Finding My Path to Motherhood

    –by Ginger C. Hanson, PhD As a genXer, growing up in an active LDS family, I struggled with the seemingly contradictory messages I heard about the role of women in society. My parents and church leaders encouraged me to pursue an education. The messages I […]

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  • Parenthood Juggle: I Wouldn’t Change Any of It

    I met my husband at law school. We got engaged the summer before my final year but at my husband’s insistence did not get married until after my final exams (he had already graduated and did not want anything to interfere with me doing so). […]

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  • Parenthood Juggle: Full-time mom/part-time rocket scientist?

    Only since September, when I participated in measuring the noise from a solid rocket motor, have I been able to claim the “rocket scientist” title, but it’s been almost 13 years since I got my Ph.D. in physics and watched my path to part-time physicist […]

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