Welcome back to Exposure, Impact’s one hour show on student groups, university organizations and nonprofits in the Lansing area! Your host, Stephanie is back with a surprise… a new co-host! This week, Stephanie and Michael spoke with Mario, President of ASMSU, Michigan State University’s student government. Tune in to hear how ASMSU aids students, how...

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Mike Morrison. Mike is a former User Experience (UX) designer who quit his tech career to become a Ph.D. student in Work Psychology. He says he’s trying to do three things in his career: 1) Bring User Experience design principles to science, to help disseminate knowledge...

This week, Stephanie and Michael spoke with Mario Kakos, president of ASMSU, Michigan State University's student government. Tune in to hear how ASMSU aids students, how the legislative process works and how to get involved. Up next, Michael interviewed some students who studied abroad in Mexico on the International Engagement in Mexico trip through Michigan State University's Migrant Student Services. They are working on some fundraisers such as a 5k and fiesta on October 12. On The Sci-Files, hosts Chelsie and Danny spoke with Nguyen Truong, an MSU Physiology Ph.D. student in Dr. Karl Olson’s lab.

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Nguyen Truong. Nguyen is an MSU Physiology Ph.D. student in Dr. Karl Olson’s lab. She studies the pancreatic beta-cell,  the cell type that secretes insulin to maintain our blood glucose. Her research focuses on studying the effect of inflammatory cytokines on the function of the pancreatic...

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Vanessa García Polanco. Vanessa García Polanco is a master student in the Department of Community Sustainability. Her research interests are minorities, immigrants, and refugee’s involvement in their local and regional food systems, especially in the areas of production, garden, and farm governance, access to markets and...

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Cort Thompson. Cort is a Ph.D. student at MSU’s Biomedical Engineering department where he is studying the ways in which implanted neural interfaces affect the brain. His research focuses on understanding how specific components of current electrode array technologies affect biocompatibility at the molecular and cellular...

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Lauren Cooper. Lauren directs the Forest Carbon and Climate Program at the Michigan State University Forestry Department. Her work focuses on the intersection of forests, people, climate, habitat protection, wood use, and sustainability. With trees and forests taking center stage in terms of climate change mitigation...

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Tatiana Bustos. Tatiana is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Ecological Community Psychology program at MSU. Her training is primarily in program evaluation, implementation science, and community-based research. Her work is focused on promoting access to health services among underserved communities. She has...

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kayla Conner, Justin Lee, and Jon Kaletka, all of them are graduate students from the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics. At the Hardy lab, they lab study prenatal infection and how it affects pregnancy outcome/development. Jon’s research focuses on understanding how Listeria infection...

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Diondra Straiton. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by challenges with social communication as well as restricted and repetitive interests. Parent training is an evidence-based treatment for ASD in which providers train parents to build on their child’s skills or address...