11 episodes
STEM Storytellers Leila Sterman
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Montana State University graduate students communicating science! Including research reports, storytelling, and reading academic papers and translating them for three different audiences. http://www.montana.edu/stemstorytellers/
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Analogies Part 1
Are all bees honey bees? Are all bacteria harmful? Do all weeds harm the crops that feed us? Do all fisheries serve the same purpose?
This week the fellows use analogies and metaphors to build nuance into some common misconceptions about their research.
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Our music is provided by Blue Dot Sessions(sessions.blue) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
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George: On being an environmental microbiologist
George Schaible is a graduate student in Biochemistry at Montana State University. In this episode he discusses his academic journey in the first years of his graduate studies.
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Our music is provided by Blue Dot Sessions(sessions.blue) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
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Jenna: Deuterium
Jenna Mattice is a graduate student in Biochemistry at Montana State University. In this episode she explains the importance of Deuterium when studying proteins.
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Our music is provided by Blue Dot Sessions(sessions.blue) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
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Taylor: The Stress Effect
When planning research projects involving living organisms, we often take for granted how our measurements may affect the well being of our subjects. While planning my research, I was confronted by how stress can affect the sexual development of trout in ways I had never imagined(http://www.montana.edu/ecology/directory/grad-students/preul.html).
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Our music is by Resolute and provided by Blue Dot Sessions(sessions.blue) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
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Sam: Beam Engineering
In this episode, Sam Verplanck describes how structural beams are applicable to a common snowpack test called the Propagation Saw Test.
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
Music in this episode is provided by Blue Dot Sessions under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
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Mei Ling: New Herbicides
Mei Ling Wong, a graduate student in Land Resources & Environmental Science (http://weedeco.msu.montana.edu/students/). In this episode she discusses how little herbicides have changed in the past century.
Music in this episode is by Resolute and provided by Blue Dot Sessions(sessions.blue) under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0 License.
This work is funded in part by support from the National Science Foundation’s Innovations in Graduate education program award number 1735124. The findings of this work are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.
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