{"id":782363,"date":"2024-05-15T09:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782363"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T14:22:50","slug":"space-physics-and-space-weather-scientist-dr-yihua-eva-zheng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=782363","title":{"rendered":"Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist Dr. Yihua (Eva) Zheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in China. In China, everybody talks about what they want to be [when they grow up]. Many want to grow up to be a scientist or engineer. So I aspired to be a scientist from an early age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 For the girls or women in science \u2014 or in any profession or job \u2014 opportunities are more abundant than they were previously. Sometimes you need to take bold steps. Just a little push, and then you will get there.\u00a0I initially started as a foreign national, so not a lot of opportunities existed for a foreign national, and some of them [required a] green card or citizenship. I think it\u2019s hard, but still, there is a path forward. I think it\u2019s important to work hard and be optimistic, and you will find something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Dr. Yihua (Eva) Zheng, Space Physics and Space Weather Scientist, Heliophysics Science Division, NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center<\/p>\n<p><em>Image Credit: NASA\/Thalia Patrinos<br \/>Interviewer: NASA\/Thalia Patrinos<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Check out some of our other Faces of NASA.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/image-article\/space-physics-and-space-weather-scientist-dr-yihua-eva-zheng\/?rand=772114\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI grew up in China. In China, everybody talks about what they want to be [when they grow up]. Many want to grow up to be a scientist or engineer.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":782364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-782363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/782364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}