Sakhee Bhure

Florida Tech has plenty of tech majors and one of the courses we are required to take is Scientific and Technical Communication. As future scientists and engineers, we need to take special efforts to ensure that our work is accessible and understandable to a general audience. I’d like to share some of the things I’ve learned in that class through the speech I presented…

This is the question that I’m asked 19 times out of 20 when I tell someone that I want to pursue research in astrophysics. Needless to say, I’ve had enough practice answering this question. Even then, every single time I’m asked that question, one childhood memory surfaces in my mind: I am sitting on the floor. It’s almost bedtime and the lights…

I noticed something different in the classroom the moment I walked in-I saw marshmallows and spaghetti and string. I had stopped expecting to find such things in classrooms since second grade. This promised to be interesting. Once every group had been given eighteen spaghetti sticks, a yard of string, tape and one marshmallow each, we were given instructions. We had…

This is perhaps the most commonly-known equation. In 1905, Albert Einstein published a paper which introduced what is now known as the Special Theory of Relativity. Ten years later, he published another paper that introduced the General Theory of Relativity. The Special Theory is essentially a special case of the General Theory (hence the name ‘special’, get it?) and does not…

If you’re walking along the beach and something glints in the sunlight, attracting your attention, you’ll bend down and pick it up (after making sure it does not sting or bite of course) and you look at it to inspect it more closely. You try looking at it from different angles, wondering about its shape and color and what’s inside it.…

​Sept. 5 is celebrated as Teachers’ Day in India. In school, this meant expressing our gratitude toward all our teachers for educating us. Learning, however, is a perpetual process. Any person and any experience could leave a profound impact on our lives, which is why my list of teachers includes the friend who encouraged me to overcome my fear of driving,…