Hey! I Got a Question About That

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Hey! I Got a Question About That Podcast

Nate Follmer, videographer extraordinaire and science newb, and Sam Sholtis, science writer and former research scientist, discuss burning—and sometimes not so burning—questions on the leading edge of science with researchers in the Penn State Eberly College of Science who are actually doing the work.

31/10/2020

How Can Students Care for their Mental Health?

MENTAL HEALTH: School is already stressful enough without a pandemic and polarizing election thrown in. Nate and Sam wondered how students can take care of their mental health during these historically stressful times. Kate Staley, director of outreach for counseling and psychological services at Penn State and Chris Palma, associate dean for undergraduate students, join Nate and Sam to discuss coping strategies and resources for students.Links for this episode: - studentaffairs.psu.edu/couns...

41 min
07/09/2020

What is Graduate School Like? Do Graduate Students Have “Free Time”?

GRAD SCHOOL: It’s season two of “Hey, I got a question about that” and Nate and Sam are back and better than ever. In this episode (with an interview filmed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic), Nicole Famularo and Albanie Hendrickson-Stives visit the studio to talk about graduate school and their research in Christine Keating’s lab in the Department of Chemistry. What is graduate school like? Do graduate students have “free time”?Links for this episode: - research.chem.psu.edu/cdkgroup/- sites.ps...

38 min
08/06/2020

What's Going On at the Eberly College of Science During Covid-19?

PANDEMIC: Nate and Same talk to Doug Cavener, the Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State via Zoom about how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the college. Can the dean work from home? How did remote learning work for science classes? Did research continue?For more information on the response to Covid-19 or to find ways to support Penn State and our students: - https://science.psu.edu/covid-19-contingency-resources- https://raise.psu.eduLinks to the Eberly Colle...

34 min
06/03/2020

What are Genetic Tests? Are They Reliable?

GENETIC TESTING: Cheryl Keller, associate research professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, stops by the studio to talk about genetic testing and direct-to-consumer genetics. What can these genetics tests tell us? How are tests for things like Tay-Sachs disease or Sickle-cell disease different from direct-to-consumer genetic tests? How reliable are they?Links to Cheryl's work: - @KellerCaponePhD on Twitter - https://twitter.com/KellerCaponePhD- Cheryl's Website - ch...

31 min
03/02/2020

What is a Microbiome?

MICROBIOME: Emily Davenport, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, visits Nate and Sam in the newly-revamped studio to talk sh*t. Well, sort of. Emily studies the human microbiome, how it evolved, and how it is related to human health. So, what is the microbiome? What kind of organisms make up our microbiome? How come it seems to be in the news so much lately? And, should we take probiotics?Links to Emily's work: - @emo_davenport on Twitter - https://twitter.com/emo_davenport- Emily's...

24 min
06/01/2020

Where Do Emerging Diseases Come From?

EMERGING DISEASES AND BATS: Nita Bharti, Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, drops in to the studio to help Nate and Sam understand how human encroachment into animal habitats is impacting emerging diseases and how satellite data can help us understand this process. Where do emerging diseases come from? What do bats have to do with it, anyway?Links to Nita's work: - @nitanother on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nitanother- Nita's Website - https:...

25 min
02/12/2019

What is Big Data? How Does Data Get Big?

BIG DATA: Francesca Chiaromonte, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences at Penn State, joins Nate and Sam in the studio to talk about data, BIG data. Massive amounts of data are being collected constantly from genome sequences, to digital health records, and trends on social media. What is making the data so big? What are statisticians doing to manage this influx of information?Links to Francesca's work: - Francesca's website: https://sites.psu.edu/chia...

38 min
04/11/2019

Is Pluto a Planet? What is a Planet Anyway?

PLANETS: Chris Palma, associate dean for undergraduate students in the Eberly College of Science and teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, visits the studio to explain to Nate and Sam that nostalgia is not a proper scientific argument and that Pluto is not a planet. So, what is a planet and what defines them? What else is out there in the solar system? Find out on this month’s episode of “Hey! I got a question about that.”Links to Chris's work: - @dfrctionspikes on T...

42 min

Nate Follmer, videographer extraordinaire and science newb, and Sam Sholtis, science writer and former research scientist, discuss burning—and sometimes not so burning—questions on the leading edge of science with researchers in the Penn State Eberly College of Science who are actually doing the work.

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The Penn State Eberly College of Science
Years Active

2019 - 2020
Episodes

14
Rating

Clean
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