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Women in STEM Episode 27 – Meghann Hallock, Lead Physician Assistant, TeamHealth LongHorn Group
Interview with Meghann Hallock, Lead Physician Assistant at TeamHealth LongHorn Group. Currently, she is the Lead APC at St. David’s South Austin & Bastrop Emergency Departments, where she was recently nominated for APC of the year. She has a Masters in Physician Assistant Studies and a Bachelor’s of Science in Health Professions with a Minor in Aging and Adult Life, both from Grand Valley State University. Her Master’s Research Thesis was on “The Timeliness of Antibiotic Administration in Neutropenic Patients at Risk for Sepsis”.
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Women in STEM Episode 26 – Marie Adams, Director of Genomics Core, Van Andel Institute
Interview with Marie Adams who is the Director of Genomics Core at Van Andel Institute and an expert in the latest next-generation sequencing techniques. Marie earned a M.S. in genetics from Iowa State University and also serves as president (2023-2024) of the Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities (ABRF).
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 21 – Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist
Interview with Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist, soon to be Harvard PhD, also an artist. Didem is interested in understanding how animals grown. She combines tools in developmental genetics, comparative evo-devo, and fieldwork in fruit flies (Drosophila) to investigate how animals make organs of different sizes.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 13 – Pinshane Huang, Materials Research Scientist, Applied Physicist
Interview with Pinshane Huang, who has a phd in applied physics and is a postdoc at Columbia University in the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. She is a photographer for tiny things.
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Women in STEM Podcast Episode 11 – Amanda Liesch, Soil Physics PhD Student
Interview with Amanda Liesch, Master Hole Digger, Queen of Soils and a Soil Physics PhD Student at North Carolina State University.
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Learn Science: Photosynthesis – What is it & How does it work?
It’s pretty commonly known that plants use photosynthesis to make food/energy, but do you know how it works? The Amoeba Sisters break down this complex issue into this fun video:
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Lucy Shapiro, Pioneering Biologist, Will Receive 2014 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from The Rockefeller University
Lucy Shapiro, professor of developmental biology at Stanford University School of Medicine, will receive the 2014 Pearl meister Greengard Prize, which celebrates the achievements of outstanding women in science, from The Rockefeller University. Shapiro’s work in developmental biology illuminated the mechanisms that control the differentiation of cells in all living things, from the simplest organisms to…
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NSF Sponsors Community College Innovation Challenge
Teams of community college students with a faculty mentor and a community or industry partner are encouraged to submit their proposals for innovative STEM-based solutions to real-world problems within one of the following themes: Bid Data, Infrastructure Security, Sustainability (including water, food, energy, environment), Broadening Participation in STEM, and Improving STEM Education. This challenge furthers…
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Learn Science: Plant Structure & Adaptations
Plants are true survivors. The entertaining Amoeba Sisters explain plant structure and how plants adapt to survive in different environments, as well as three reactants important for photosynthesis and how plants obtain them.
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Learn Science: Why Do We Get Brain Freezes?
Ever wonder why you sometimes get a headache, or “brain freeze” after eating ice cream or other cold foods? Maddie Moate reveals the science behind brain freezes:
