Away from her boyfriend for grad school, Meisa Salaita starts to fall for a chemistry classmate who's her complete opposite.

Meisa Salaita is enamored with the beauty of science. Through her work founding and directing the Atlanta Science Festival and as a producer for the Story Collider, she spends her days trying to convince everyone else to fall in love with science as well. To that end, Meisa also writes, has produced radio stories, and hosted tv shows - all in the name of science. Meisa has a Ph.D. in chemistry, has birthed two humans, and has a bizarre level of enthusiasm for shoehorns. If she had the stamina and talent, she’d be dancing hip-hop 24/7.

This story originally aired on The Story Collider’s podcast on November 1, 2019, in an episode titled “Crushes: Stories about scientists in love”. Find the transcript and other information here:
https://www.storycollider.org/stories/2019/10/28/crushes-stories-about-scientists-in-love

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