This week on The OWL Vision Justice Podcast (OVJP), we discuss the most recent pandemic updates, including the vaccines approved in the USA and the hesitancy towards them in the Black Community.  We'll reveal our choices for STEM spotlight this week, and we talk to Stephane Gautier about his paths to becoming a Mechanical Engineer and why he thinks engineering is fun.  Stephane is a graduate of the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.  Stephane also holds a Masters of Engineering from The City College of New York. Currently, he is a project engineer at Sigura, which manufactures water quality products for commercial and industrial use.

Our View Discussion Notes:

• The U.S.—Nearing 4,000 Deaths Per Day—Has Broken Its Record Three Times This Month

• Epidemiologists Urge A Cautious Christmas, After Thanksgiving Surge in Some States

• Despite health warnings, holiday travel has already set a record for busiest weekend of the pandemic

• FDA Takes Key Action in Fight Against COVID-19 By Issuing Emergency Use Authorization for First COVID-19 Vaccine

• Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine

• Nearly one third of Black Americans remain hesitant to get Covid-19 vaccine, study finds

• Love Letter

• Fauci wants people to know that one of lead scientists who developed the Covid-19 vaccine is a Black woman

• ICU nurse in New York among first in country to receive Covid vaccination

• Politicians are getting the coronavirus vaccine. Should they be first in line?

• Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA

• ‘I just pray God will help me’: Racial, ethnic minorities reel from higher covid-19 death rates

STEM Spotlight:

• NASA Science Live: How to See Saturn and Jupiter’s Great Conjunction

• Jupiter and Saturn align closely in rare 'Great Conjunction' – watch live

• The Newly Discovered π (pi) planet! What Is It All About?

Recommendations from Stephane:

• Podcast: Hidden Brain

• Podcast: Throughline

• Book: Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

You can contact Stephane through the link below:

• Stephane G. | LinkedIn

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