Cheryl Dembe

Author: The Choice of Happiness,
Glimpses from an Extraordinary Ordinary Scientific Mystical Life
(https://www.amazon.com/dp/0998299197)
by Sundari (Cheryl) Dembe, PhD

Working on second book: Nearly Nobel

University of Chicago gave me my doctorate in Chemistry in 2019, 48 yrs after it's completion. It was denied because I was a woman.

This is a quote summing up the story:
"A year after Dembe dropped out of UChicago, a Cornell team working on the same problem got what Guyot-Sionnest described as an 'exciting result,' for which they later received the Nobel. Dembe wasn’t far off from the same result when she was told to stop her research. Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, chair of Dembe’s doctoral committee.

Here are some news stories generated from this:

https://news.uchicago.edu/story/universi...cheryl-sundari-dembe

TV interview: https://streamingforthesoul.com/lee-carroll-sundari-replay/
https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/12/a...she-always-deserved/

https://www.chicagomaroon.com/article/2019/6/6/seven-times-life-along-way-ph/

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video/...g-delayed-doctorate/

British Journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry: https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/50-y...ting/3010565.article

NPR Chicago: https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news/50-...9e-8545-78f06dfee21b

The University of Michigan: http://alumnus.alumni.umich.edu/persevering-finding-redemption/

NYTimes: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opini...nion&pgtype=Homepage

Transformation Talk Radio-The Christine Upchurch Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZxucFQrIKk

Soul Searching podcast out of Santa Fe:
https://soulsearching.libsyn.com/soul-searching-october-21-2020-sundari-dembe

The California American Chemical Society: Cal ACS web site post
Angewandte Chemie (In German): https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ciuz.202000043?af=R

Chemistry Views (Translation of the German article above): https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/e...o_Didnt_Give_Up.html

Conversations with Goddesses:https://youtu.be/FSIg6mG1ibY

Global travel often with planetary healing groups and on pilgrimages, write and sing music (spiritual and classical, give hour solo concerts) Singing in Carnegie Hall June 2025 and with 700 people live in Maui December 2024:

From Sundari (Cheryl) Dembe's YouTube channel
Music Videos:

Toning Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqgkJN4UvU0

Lord’s Prayer in Aramaic: https://youtu.be/SHtPWn_NWoc

23rd Psalm: https://youtu.be/SFfntNSUNLE

Peace Invocation from the Isa Upanishad in Sanskrit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrjDxsIGiXI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQyDiaQhXsc

L’Chah Dodi [calling in the Divine Feminine in Hebrew].
(at 4:19-9:20 on this recording) and Step Into The Holy Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAdwfbuDsl8

Chemistry Music Videos:

Solubility Song (originally received from Mrs. Bernard, my Heights Chemistry teacher who inspired me to go into Chemistry: https://youtu.be/Kfb5K3l8YvA

Grignard Reaction Song: https://youtu.be/9VDSh4KphKc

Teach and attend spiritual groups (Non-duality), rancher, walk 3-4 miles nearly daily.

I worked in Holland (industrial chemical research), lived in India in an ashram (7 months) and travel globally often, everywhere - 45 countries at this point.

Some great classes and some good friends.

I remember the tracked classes, UICSM math, physics lyrics we put to a Bach Fugue, the Scarlet Letter/Moby Dick opera, the woman Chemistry teacher, Mrs. Bernard, who inspired me to go into Chemistry and had a song she used to teach the solubility chart for net ionic equations, that I continued to use in my teaching, Saturday night football games, interesting friends.

Take myself less seriously.

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