Andrea Jacobs

For aerospace mechanical engineer Ariel “Air” Sandberg, 25, the lure of space first took off when she volunteered in middle school for a space exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
“I was in the eighth grade at RMHA,” she smiles, her face framed by a Zoom screen ablaze with a majestic photo of the Earth in low orbit, shadowed by the sun.
During the exhibit, Sandberg’s family reached out to DU and said, “Our daughter is fascinated by space. Can anyone help her?”
Sandberg paired with Naomi Pequette, then in DU’s astronomy department and now at the museum. “It wasn’t a formal mentorship program or anything like that,” she said.

When millions of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19 got the all clear to forgo masks (with some exceptions), cheers greeted this long-awaited portal to normalcy.
But other people are terrified, not of COVID, but of returning to regular life after 14 months of hibernation, isolation and limited in-person contact.
Dr. Shoshana Adler, a Denver psychoanalyst and psychologist, says the thought of reentering this brave new world may cause or exacerbate depression, anxiety and other mood disruptions.
She was elated that the Intermountain Jewish News was writing about the repercussions of reentry on mental health. “It’s about time,” she Zooms.
While the uptick in reentry depression and anxiety may seem counter intuitive — after all, America COVID outlook has vastly improved — she says these reactions are natural.

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