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Har vard - Smit hsonia n Center for
Astrophysics in Cambridge. "These are
all meaningful achievements for me,
especially because I am the first person
in my family to study engineering or
STEM and the first person in my family
to pursue higher education in any field,"
she reflects. "I learned that we should
never let the environment we grow up
in define us or limit us."
Embracing New Challenges
Ultimately, Scire-Scappuzzo returned
home to her dream job as a profes-
sor at t he Universit y of Cat a nia,
bringing back what she had learned
Scire-Scappuzzo with a prototype of
one of her seven patents.
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traditionally considered unrelated in
the defense industry, and sometimes
even conflicting. The goal for me is
making sure that they are complemen-
tary and symbiotic so that all the play-
ers can benefit."
Doing things differently-being
bold-has defined Scire-Scappuzzo's
entire career: from her choice of degree
to building her own company and
from living all over the world to set-
tling down an ocean away from her
hometown. Growing up in a tradition-
al Sicilian family in Italy, she studied
classics at a private Catholic school, so
her family and friends were skeptical
when she decided to pursue engineer-
ing. "Everyone around me discouraged
me, saying that I did not have the right
background, that as a woman, I would
have a hard time in science, technology,
engineering, and mathematics (STEM),
and that I was just being naïve," she
recalls. "But I did not think that meant
I could not learn or succeed." Case
in point: she graduated at the top of
her class with bachelor's and master's
degrees in electrical engineering from
the University of Catania, less than
1 mi away from where she grew up.
Scire-Scappuzzo went on to earn a
master's degree at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) and a
Ph.D. degree at ETH in Zurich, Swit-
zerland. She studied as a postgradu-
ate at the European Space Agency in
The Netherlands, received a certificate
from the International Space Univer-
sity in Kitakyushu, Japan, and was a
visiting scientist at MIT and the
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