Mothers Day
A Family Affair: This Mother-Daughter Duo Does Its Part For Renewable Energy
Before Heather Sasser could even tell her new colleagues that her mother also worked at GE Renewable Energy’s wind turbine plant in Pensacola, Florida, they immediately spotted the family resemblance.
“People kept saying, ‘You look like someone else who works here. Are you related to Sally Flowers?’” Sasser says with a laugh.
“It’s hard not to notice,” Flowers adds. “She’s like my mini-me!”
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No Time To Lose: COVID-19 Disrupted Women’s Healthcare, But A Doctor Who Defeated Illness Is Changing That
Dr. Rachel Brem and her husband, Henry, were hoping they just had the flu. It was early March, before COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, was widespread in the United States. Henry got sick first. For a little while, it was easy enough to dismiss his extreme fatigue as a passing issue. But then Brem, too, began to experience symptoms, some of which were known at the time to be associated with COVID-19 — such as a deep cough, muscle pain and a fever — and others that only became identified later, such as the loss of her sense of smell.
A Mother’s Day Goal: More Female Engineers
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Mothers' Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With Science And Curiosity
Aerospace
This Mother Of 6 Helped GE Build Its First Supersonic Jet Engine
Engineer Mark Leary has been helping GE Aviation build jet engines for three decades. The work is in his blood — literally. More that 60 years ago, Mark’s mother, Patricia, helped the company design the supersonic engine that allowed Lockheed to build the F-104 Starfighter jet, known as “the missile with a man in it” and capable of sustained flight at twice the speed of sound, or Mach 2.