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Thank you for listening to our second podcast episode with professor of microbiology and immunology, Michael Imperiale! Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends! We hope that this episode can give you some insight as to how SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses are composed, and how best to fight them.​



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Thank you for listening to our podcast episode with Edwin Bergin! Professor Bergin is the Chair of the Astronomy Department at the University of Michigan and uses chemistry to probe the physics of star and planet formation and to trace the molecular origins of life.  Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends!



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Thank you for listening to our podcast episode with Ariel Sandberg! Ari is a University of Michigan Alumna, former SpaceX Starlink engineer, and current MIT Lincoln Laboratory engineer working on the NASA LEMNOS mission.  Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends!



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Thank you for listening to our podcast episode with professor of astronomy, Joel Bregman! Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends! We hope that this episode can give you some insight as to how x-ray research is conducted and how most research is initiated.​



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0:00 Intro 

0:54 Funding for science with a new administration

4:21 The differences between applied and basic research 

6:28 How basic research can continue to be funded 

10:24 The 2020-2021 Decadal Survey

15:00 How large long term projects are organized and carried out 

21:33 The cost and complications of over budget missions

31:01 How the increasing privatization of space will affect the costs of  observational astronomy 

36:04 NASA’s plan to use the Moon as a launchpad to Mars

43:40 Professor Bregman’s research focuses at the University of Michigan 

48:36 How Professor Bregman used the decadal survey to choose his research focus

58:15  Transitioning into teaching alongside research 

1:03:48 The impact of Covid upon education and research

1:06:51 Advice for undergraduate\students on how to succeed in college 

1:11:41 Biggest hopes for the future

Thank you for listening to our podcast episode with professor of microbiology and immunology, Michael Imperiale! Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends! We hope that this episode can give you some insight as to how SARS-COV-2 and other viruses are composed, and how best to fight them.​



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Thank you for listening to our podcast episode with science history writer, Tom Levenson! Please make sure to like the Youtube video, subscribe, and share it with your friends! We hope that this episode can give you some insight as to how science in the past can help shape the science of the future.​



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0:00 Intro 

0:07 The validity of science communication as news in light of Covid-19 

10:20 The differences between scientific papers and science news  

15:15 The efficiency of science communication  

21:33 The importance of storytelling in scientific communication 

26:00 The preparation involved with scientific communication beyond reading research papers

32:24 The failure to engage with science as a large human enterprise 

38:58 How some scientific ideas were ignored initially but accepted later by other scientists

43:31 Professor Levenson’s approach to writing about scientific discoveries

48:18 The gaps in the history of our scientific knowledge

59:49 The most interesting scientific stories that Professor Levenson has read about 

1:03:50 Conclusion