Our guest this week, Minerva Zayas a Master’s student in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, is interested in how folks who identify as LatinX and LGBTQ+ navigate the intersection of these identities, especially in university spaces. In particular, Minerva is asking how LatinX, LGBTQ+ individuals engage in a system that has historically catered to white heteronormative college students. Minerva, speaking from personal experience, expects that University life offers little tailored support systems for folks of color who identify as ’other,’ but that a university campus might offer opportunities to build a support systems that other institutions might lack: the opportunity to participate in a campus cultural/lifestyle community and engage in activism.

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It is estimated that approximately 500,000 children in the United States have some sort of mobility limitation. Mobility at a young age allows children to begin exploring their surroundings, which helps with not only motor development, but also language, social, and cognitive skills. Typical pediatric wheelchairs cost upwards of $17,000 making the economic barrier, and social stigma of needing a device to move, extremely harsh. Our guest Christina Hospodar, finishing her Masters Degree in the College of Public Health and Human Services, is working with a national program called Go Baby Go which aims to bring self-directed mobility to children at a fraction of the cost. Using materials typically found at home improvement stores (like PVC, electrical wires, foam) and modifying children’s ride-on cars (typical Christmas toys for kids), they can provide a vehicle for a child to self-direct their movement for $200. Christina’s research looks to see how these modified ride-on cars can be used to incorporate physical therapy exercises (like standing from a sitting position, or walking) to allow children to practice these movements and help them develop motor skills. Christina will continue as a PhD student at NYU in the Fall studying infant motor development under the direction of Dr. Karen Adolph.

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This week on Inspiration Dissemination we will be featuring a previous guest: Francisco Guerrero, a PhD student in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management. Francisco’s first interview aired on October 18, 2015, and we called him back for a follow-up because he has been selected for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship. As a fellow, Franco will be writing feature stories about climate change and health for CNN en Español.

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.

GRADx was a live event with six short speeches by some of the most inspirational graduate students at Oregon State University. It was originally recorded on February 22nd, 2018 in Milam Auditorium, and was done in partnership with the OSU Graduate School. This was the inaugural event, but stay tuned for a second iteration in 2019!

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.

Antibiotics don’t always go away after we take them. We excrete them from our bodies, and they can accumulate in septic sludge, where potential pathogens can gain resistance to them. Genevieve Schutzius, a masters student in the College of Engineering, discusses her research isolating antibiotic resistant strains of E. coli from septic sludge, and her experiences abroad in Vietnam where she collected the samples.

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How can we develop high school science curriculula about complex global environmental challenges while emphasizing that we can do something to help? Brian Erickson, a masters student in Marine Resource Management and former high school science teacher, discusses how the views of students change after learning about ocean acidification and how we as individuals can decrease our carbon footprints.

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Our guest this evening is Vera Lattier (Chih-Ning Chang) who is a PhD candidate in the Molecular and Cellular Biology Program focusing on one gene in particular that orchestrates the muscle formation process at various stages of life development. This PITX2 gene is implicated in regulating the activity of other genes as well as formation of the eyes, heart, limbs, and abdominal muscles during embryonic stages. Although our brains use a lot of the simple energy compounds (like glucose), our skeletal muscles use 70% of our body’s total energy production such as fats, sugars, and amino acids. All of this energy demand from our skeletal muscles means our body’s metabolism is highly regulated by our muscles.

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.

Over 50% of drugs approved in the last ~30 years have been impacted by natural products research, being directly sourced from natural products or inspired by them. Discovering new natural products, identifying their function, and isolating them from a complex mixture of other chemicals is like solving a puzzle. Donovon Adpressa, a 5th year PhD candidate in Chemistry working in the Sandra Loesgen lab, fortunately loves to solve puzzles.

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.

Inclusive design considers products for people across a varying range of abilities. Jessica Armstrong, a PhD student in the Design Core of the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, is developing a framework for product designers to implement inclusive design by placing human subjects in a motion-restriction suit to simulate limited upper-body mobility.

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.

Andrea Haverkamp is a 2nd year PhD student in the College of Engineering, who is asking what it means to think of yourself as an engineer and examining how the ’engineering culture’ has perpetuated the lack of diversity we see today. We discuss the parallels in STEM and other male-dominated fields as well as how her research hopes to begin chipping away at the gender disparity in the workplace.

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This show was founded in 2012 by Joey Hulbert and Zhian Kamvar. It has been made possible by all the current and former hosts of the show, Orange Media Network, the KBVR-FM students and staff, and of course the amazing graduate students at Oregon State University.