Who Me? Set: Vol 1

The Who Me? series features inspirational biographies of scientists who young readers will be able to identify with as people like themselves. Written by the scientists themselves and co-authors from Vanderbilt University, the books are designed to help young readers understand that scientists are regular people like themselves who are excited about learning and discovering new things and who decided to work hard in school in order to create for themselves the opportunity to become scientists. As they learn the stories of these scientists, readers will also learn some basic science ideas, that are well-explained and easily understood, and be introduced to the cutting-edge science these scientists are working on today.

Who Me? series co-editors: David A Weintraub, Professor of Astronomy, of History, and of Communication of Science and Technology, College of Arts & Science, Vanderbilt University; Ann Neely, Associate Professor Emerita of the Practice of Education, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University; and Kevin Johnson, Professor of Biomedical Informatics and of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

About the Authors

Keivan Gaudalupe Stassun grew up in Los Angeles, California. He is a Professor of Astronomy and holds the Stevenson Chair in Physics & Astronomy at Vanderbilt University. He directs the Vanderbilt Initiative in Data-Intensive Astrophysics (VIDA) and is the founder and director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation. He is a Legacy Fellow of the American Astronomical Society and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Kevin B Johnson, MD, MS is Informatician-in-Chief, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor and Chair of Biomedical Informatics, and Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an internationally respected developer and evaluator of health information technology. Johnson also specializes in creative expression and education, with a successful podcast (Informatics in the Round) and a feature film (No Matter Where) on his list of creative works.

Tiffiny Tung is a Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She examines mummies and skeletons from archaeology sites to tell science-based stories about the lives of people that lived long ago. She has been a Fulbright Fellow, and her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Wenner Gren Foundation. She has been awarded multiple teaching awards at Vanderbilt University. She is the director of the Bioarchaeology & Stable Isotope Research Lab at Vanderbilt, and she directs the long-term research program, "The Bioarchaeology of Wari Imperialism and Collapse," for which she invites college and high school students to travel with her to Peru and learn about Andean archaeology and skeletal analysis. She is the author of Violence, Ritual, and the Wari Empire: A Social Bioarchaeology of Imperialism in the Ancient Andes (2012).