14 episodes
Hey! I Got a Question About That The Penn State Eberly College of Science
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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:...