{"id":9789,"date":"2025-05-05T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2025-05-05T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T15:15:17","slug":"translating-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/2025\/05\/05\/translating-rocket-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Translating Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/files\/2025\/04\/National-Science-Teaching-Association-03-477x636.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"419\" class=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Korine Powers holding a giant inflatable Moon at NSTA<\/h4>\n<p><span>Korine Powers could have never predicted that a career covering science\u2014space to be exact\u2014would be in the stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In the early stages of pursuing a PhD in English and American literature from Boston University, Powers (GRS\u201924) was confident that she would remain in academia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMy dissertation is on cowboys and serial killers,\u201d says Powers, with a chuckle. With such niche interests and a penchant for teaching, her tentative plan was to become a professor\u2014a common route for English PhD candidates. But it turns out that comprehensive training in communications and language development also equipped her for a career at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s a testament to the value of humanities degrees, emphasizes Powers, and proof that companies across the most unlikely of sectors\u2014even space exploration\u2014are seeking the very transferable skills of English majors. \u201cIt\u2019s nice to see that the workforce still needs people who can expound on technical topics in a real, human way,\u201d she says\u2014even amidst the surge of ChatGPT and other AI-powered tools.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: green;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cas\/arts-sciences\/article\/translating-rocket-science-for-the-masses\/\">To read more click here<\/a>&lt;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korine Powers holding a giant inflatable Moon at NSTA Korine Powers could have never predicted that a career covering science\u2014space to be exact\u2014would be in the stars. In the early stages of pursuing a PhD in English and American literature from Boston University, Powers (GRS\u201924) was confident that she would remain in academia. \u201cMy dissertation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4119,"featured_media":9794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9789"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9795,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9789\/revisions\/9795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}