Faces of the future

"It was daunting as a young new employee, fresh out of grad school at Stanford, to enter meetings with some of the sage scientists at Dow - experts in their fields. I slipped in and sat in the back until one of them called to me and said with a smile: 'You're not in grad school anymore, Nahrain; you can sit at the front table!' That's when I knew I had joined the right team."

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