Science Communication
Inspiration Dissemination
During graduate school, I wrote blogs and conducted live interviews as a host of Inspiration Dissemination, the award-winning graduate student-run podcast at Oregon State University's KBVR FM that has been airing for over a decade. I interviewed graduate students about their research and help them communicate complex scientific ideas to a broad audience that includes undergraduates, faculty members, graduate students, Corvallis community members, and the world at large.
Below you can find links to the blog posts I have written for Inspiration Dissemination.
Previous interviews are available at Apple Podcasts and the blog can be found here.
November 19, 2022: PhD Candidate Savannah Leidholt talks about her journey to use viral transcriptomics to unlock the elusive Puffy Snout Syndrome in mackerals.
October 15, 2022: Schmitty Thompson, PhD Candidate in Geology, shares the story of using computational modeling to fill gaps in the geologic record.
October 2, 2022: MA Candidate Andrew Herrera discusses his thesis on the role hypermasculinity and violence plays in three films by Nicolas Windig Refn.
February 27, 2022: Caroline Hernandez, a PhD student at Oregon State, talks about how studying what cells in a petri dish can tell us something about how bacteria communicate with the brain.
January 30, 2022: PhD student Dusty Mangus chats with ID about nuclear energy, modern nuclear reactors, and what this has to do with solving the climate crisis.
December 5, 2021: Steven Johnson is a postdoc at Arizona State and graduate of Oregon State University, studying climate change modeling and the development of a novel climate change index for the ocean.
March 13, 2022: Sarah Wolf, a PhD candidate in Microbiology, chats with us about low oxygen zones in the ocean and how microbes respond and change to these seasons of hypoxia. We also talk about her journey into STEM education and outreach through the use of social media, and how connecting with parents and young people has allowed Sarah to share lessons and resources about microbiology.
July 17, 2022: Computer scientist turned microbiologist Christine Tataru explains how natural language processing algorithms are being used to study the gut microbiota.
May 15, 2022: Nolan Newman, PhD candidate in the College of Pharmacy, uses math, statistics, computer science, and biology to explore relationships between biological entities.
May 8, 2022: Anna Nickelson is a PhD student studying the way that humans interact with robots and AI - and aims to eventually create AI that can benefit humans and humanity.