STEMherst Amherst STEM Network

In this podcast, I (Ivy Haight) interview two sophomores who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program this summer (who happen to be two of my close friends). They discuss what they researched, why they decided to participate in SURF, advice they have for students considering SURF, and what Amherst is like over the summer.

On May 4th, 2021, Amherst STEM Network (ASN) hosted a conversation on science communications with Apoorva Mandavilli. As the Health and Science journalist for The New York Times, Mandavilli has been key in disseminating crucial information about COVID-19 this past year. Through this podcast, she answered questions regarding the rewards and difficulties of her career, her path to this career, and much more.

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Aditi Nayak ‘23 introduces Dr. Victoria Fang, who graduated from Amherst College in 2011 with a biology degree. Since then, she received her MD/PhD from New York University’s School of Medicine and is currently a dermatology resident at the University of Pennsylvania. Along her journey to becoming a physician-scientist, she also founded JRNLclub, an organization that increases collaboration in the research community by making it easier for researchers to efficiently understand publications. Here, she shares her path from Amherst to residency, why she founded JRNLclub, and the insights she gained about imposter syndrome along the way.

In this podcast, I (Ivy Haight '25) introduce Professor Becky Hewitt, a new environmental studies professor with research focused in the arctic. She discusses her background, what goes into starting up a lab (more than you would think!), her hope in the midst of climate change, and more.

In this episode of the Stemherst podcast, chemistry students Charlie Blue Arm '22 and Nicole Chung '22 discuss the merging of STEM and humanities with professor Ted Melillo of environmental studies and history, amongst other things such as his recent book, and his course structure.

In this podcast, I talk to Professor Olshansky, a new professor at Amherst, about his journey in chemistry, his research with quantum dots, and his experience as a professor during the COVID-19 pandemic.