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Where Does Your Journey STEM From?

Where Does Your Journey STEM From?

di Carina Minardi, PhD MPH

Educazione Scienza

Stagione 1

Introduction

Have you ever wondered where people's journeys stem from? Welcome to my podcast where we explore career paths and research in STEM.

S1 E1 | The STEM Journey Begins: Mel Ortiz, PhD Candidate in Pathobiology

Mel Ortiz Alvarez de la Campa is a Puerto Rican & queer scientist, writer and artist. Their research focuses on finding a link between early life adversity, anxiety and the microbiome.

S1 E2 | The STEM Journey Begins: Dr. Joshua Robinson

Joshua is originally from Memphis, Tennessee and matriculated to UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX in 2020. He joined the Siegwart lab in 2021 and is working on the development of three-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) as gene carriers. As seen with the COVID-19 vaccines, delivery of genetic material (in this case mRNA) has been very helpful and successful.

S1 E3 | The STEM Journey Begins: Rachel Kozloski, PhD Candidate in Hydrologic Sciences

Rachel Kozloski is a PhD student in UNR’s Graduate Program of Hydrologic Sciences. Her research focuses on microplastics in urban runoff and microplastic movement in connected surface and groundwater systems.

S1 E4 | The STEM Journey Begins: Andy Garcia, Former PhD Candidate in Biomedical Engineering

Andy was a PhD candidate in biomedical engineering at Columbia University, where his research focused on ways to improve osteoarthritis-related knee surgeries. He holds an MS in biomedical engineering from Columbia and a BS in mechanical engineering from New York University.

S1 E5 | The STEM Journey Begins: Suraj Rajendran, PhD Candidate in Computational Biology

Suraj is a Ph.D. student in the Tri-Institutional PhD Program in Computational Biology at Weill Cornell Medical College, specializing in computational biology and bioinformatics. His research interests include the impact of data heterogeneity in federated learning, predicting the ploidy status of embryos using deep video classification, clinical trial emulation, and deep learning in genomics.

S1 E6 | The STEM Journey Begins: Kristi Boyd, AI Specialist

Kristi Boyd is the Trustworthy AI Specialist with SAS' Data Ethics Practice(DEP). With a blend of technical and ethical expertise, Kristi’s mission is to understand emerging technologies like AI, assess them in the context of culture, and translate the findings into actionable recommendations to fuel and push the boundaries of responsible innovation in ways that promote human well-being, agency, and equity.

S1 E7 | The STEM Journey Begins: Meghan Sullivan, PhD Candidate in Chemistry

Meghan is a second year Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow at Harvard University. In the group of Prof. Daniel Nocera, she studies photocatalysis and other energy-relevant reactions. (1) Meghan Sullivan | LinkedIn

S1 E8 | The STEM Journey Begins: Dr. Ashley Bosa, Vulcanologist

Ashley Bosa is a fourth year geosciences graduate student at Boise State University. She is also a vulcanologist. The first part is to monitor rain triggered lahars (lava flows) in Vulcan de Fuego in Guatemala. The second part is to develop a collaborative vulcanic hazards training workshop for a local community in the cascades.

s1 E9 | The STEM Journey Begins: Dr. Jennifer Mak, Biomedical Engineer

Rachel's work in the Rehab Neural Engineering Labs (RNEL) studies mechanistic changes in the brain after a stroke, which can lead to visual-spatial attention and upper-limb motor dysfunction. The ultimate goal of this work is to develop technology-driven rehabilitation protocols and tools to facilitate stroke recovery.

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