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Episode 6 (out now!): Allison Chua on oceanography
Allison is an engineer at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She studies underwater vehicles used to explore and study the ocean. In this episode we talk about current vehicles, discuss what we don’t know about the ocean, and speculate on the future of ocean vehicles. Additionally, there is a really cool discussion of females in […]
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Episode 5 (October 21): Lucas Dwiel on binge eating
Next week our guest is Lucas Dwiel. He is earning his Ph.D. in Dartmouth’s Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine (PEMM). His research aims to understand the wide-spread electrical circuits of the brain and how these dynamics can become dysregulated within the context of mental illnesses. By using signal processing and computational methods, he hopes to […]
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Episode 4 (October 15): Dr. Emily Stephens
Dr. Emily Stephens is a recent Ph.D. graduate from Dartmouth’s Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine. Her research focuses on the mechanism by which a commonly prescribed depression medication, Prozac, works. Serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the most prescribed type of depression medication and work by increasing the amount of available serotonin in the body. […]
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Episode 3 (October 8): Science Pub, The Games People Play
Our next episode will be our coverage of a local science outreach program called Science Pub. This event is held the last Thursday of every month at the Lebanon Salt Hill Pub and is funded by Dartmouth’s School of Graduate and Advanced Studies. This event hosts a panel of researchers to explain their research to […]