Bianca Jones Marlin: It's Because She's Black
The Story Collider
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4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2015
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
On the first day of grad school for her PhD, a fellow student tells Bianca Jones Marlin that she doesn't really belong there. Bianca Jones Marlin is a neuroscientist and doctoral candidate at New York University, School of Medicine. She received dual bachelor degrees in biology and adolescent education from St. John's University. Her time as a high school biology teacher led her to the laboratory, where she now studies the neurochemicals that govern communication and dictate social memories. Bianca investigates how the brain changes in the presence of the "love hormone," oxytocin. Her research aims to understand the vital bond between mother and child, and uses oxytocin as a treatment in strengthening fragile and broken parental relationships. Bianca, a native New Yorker, lives in Manhattan with her scientist husband, Joe, and their cat Santiago Ramon y Cajal, who is named after the famed neuroanatomist.
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| 0:00.0 | A science story, huh? |
| 0:04.0 | Is NYU a scientist? |
| 0:06.0 | I felt it. |
| 0:07.0 | I was so unhappy. |
| 0:09.0 | It was that golden moment. |
| 0:12.0 | Because science was on my side. Hey everyone, I'm Ben Lilly, and welcome to the Story Collider, where we bring you true personal stories about science. |
| 0:30.9 | This week's stories from Bianca Jones Marlin. It was recorded in March 2015 at Littlefield in Brooklyn. |
| 0:42.3 | So I graduated with a dual bachelor's degree in biology and adolescent education. |
| 0:46.3 | I was on a full academic scholarship. |
| 0:48.3 | And when I graduated, I got the Distinguished Student Leader Award for my service as the President of the Student |
| 0:54.6 | Government. |
| 0:55.6 | In between that time, I did research at MIT and Harvard, and I presented that work at Yale |
| 1:01.0 | and at Vanderbilt University. |
| 1:04.1 | And let's see what else. |
| 1:05.1 | I play the clarinet. |
| 1:07.9 | And when I started applying to graduate schools, I sent my application to a few schools, and I got, I asked, I was asked for interviews at Ivy Leagues and there were financial incentives from schools on the West Coast. And I chose to start my PhD at New York University School of Medicine, studying neurobiology and physiology. And I remember the first day of graduate school. |
| 1:30.3 | We all came in all the first years, just as equally proud, I think, as I was, |
| 1:34.3 | and excited to finally be here after the applications, after the summers and late hours, |
| 1:39.3 | and after being pre-med, we're finally here until we're here for six years. |
| 1:43.3 | We're still finally here. |
| 1:45.0 | And we gathered around the bar and we started chatting, |
| 1:48.0 | just as colleagues, learning about the other individuals, |
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