I Am Not A Monster: Schizophrenia | Cecilia McGough | TEDxPSU

Cecilia McGough puts a face to schizophrenia and helps empower college students through the upcoming non-profit Students With Schizophrenia. Students With Schizophrenia: http://sites.psu.edu/stude...

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Translator: Sara Palacios Reviewer: Theresa RanftHello, my name is Cecilia McGough.I'm an astronomy and astrophysics major here at Penn State,and the founder and presidentof the Penn State Pulsar Search Collaboratory.In high school, I was lucky enough to have co-discovered a pulsarthrough the Pulsar Search Collaboratory.A pulsar is a super dense neutron starthat emits dipole electromagnetic radiation.Basically, think of a star much, much larger than our sun,blowing away its outer layers, leaving behind a dense core -that core could be our pulsar.This discovery opened some doors for me,such as helping represent the United Statesin the International Space Olympics in Russia.And also, being a Virginia aerospace science and technology scholar.I know what yo...