Inspiration Dissemination

Inspiration Dissemination

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Inspiration Dissemination episodes

  • LGBTQ+ health disparities and the impact of stress
    Kalina Fahey is a 5th year PhD candidate in the School of Psychological Science working with her advisors Drs. Anita Cservenka and Sarah Dermody. Her research broadly investigates LGBTQ+ health disparities and how stress impacts health in LGBTQ+ groups. She is also interested in understanding ways in which spiritual and/or religious identities can influence stress, and thereby, health.
    39 min
  • Lean, Mean, Bioinformatics Machine
    Nima Azbijari is a second year PhD student in Computer Science, advised by Dr. Maude David. Nima is using machine learning to better understand relationships and patterns in biology. How does a machine learn biology? Check out the episode to find out how Nima is discovering previously unknown relationships between genes and the gut microbiome in different diseases and in general.
    38 min
  • Environment and male turtles
    Where are all of the male sea turtles? It turns out that sea turtles do not have sex chromosomes and their sex is instead entirely determined by the temperature of eggs during incubation. As the planet continues to warm, this is creating a severe imbalance of female hatchling turtles. We chat with Vic about how mathematical models can help to forecast how the green sea turtle population will adapt (or not) to climate change through their reproductive behaviors.
    42 min
  • Smoky Beer (Halloween Episode)
    Join us for spooktacular Halloween episode all about creepy beer! You heard that right, beer can be creepy. This week we discuss a phenomenon known as hop creep that plagues beer brewers as it gives hoppy beers such as IPAs the taste of move theatre popcorn butter...Delicious when you're at the movies! Not so delicious when you're expecting a mouthful of fresh, crisp, citrusy IPA beer. MS student Cade Jobe is on the job trying to figure out how to solve hop creep issues! Find out all about in this episode! Hosted by Jenna Fryer and Lisa Hildebrand
    41 min
  • Stressed out corals
    Did you know that corals can get stressed out? When they do, their microbial community can change and diversify. For some coral species, this diversification helps them survive a stressful event; for others, not so much. 4th year PhD candidate Alex Vompe is trying to figure out why and you can learn why in this episode! Hosted by Lisa Hildebrand and Bryan Lynn.
    53 min
  • What ice sheets can teach us about ancient ocean shorelines
    PhD candidate Schmitty Thompson uses very modern methods to study very ancient things. As a geologist, they use computer models to fill in gaps of the geologic record in order to determine the relationship between massive ice sheets and ancient ocean levels. Their work lies at the intersection of physics, geology, computer science, and history.
    48 min
  • Warming waters, waning nutrition: energy and the oceanic food web
    The majority of the omega 3 fatty acids in our diet get their start in a tiny, unassuming organism: the phytoplankton. Phytoplankton are the primary producers of the oceanic food web, converting sunlight into energy. But what happens when warming oceans change the dynamics of energy availability? We chat about this and more with MS student in Marine Resource Management Becky Smoak.
    46 min
  • Violence and Hyper Masculinity in Film

    Andrew Herrera is an MA candidate in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film. His thesis is focusing on the portrayal of violence, masculinity, and gender as a performance in three films by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, best known for his film Drive starring Ryan Gosling. The films explore and portray masculinity in slightly different ways, but all with violence at the core. 

    41 min
  • Environmental Justice: what it is, and what to do about it

    Environmental justice is mostly about how environmental hazards are causing [in]justice, especially for disadvantaged communities. We open up this discussion with some history of the term, provide some local and global examples, and provide suggestions for what to do with this knowledge. Make sure to check out the blog, there are lots of additional reading and listening resources there! Hosted by Adrian Gallo.

    51 min
  • From A(lgorithms) to Z(O-1 proteins): A Computer Scientist’s Journey into the Lab

    Improvements in DNA sequencing technology have allowed scientists to dig deeper than ever before into the intricacies of the microbes that inhabit our gut, also called the gut microbiome. Massive amounts of data – on the scale of pentabytes – have been accumulated as labs and institutes across the globe sequence the gut microbiome in an effort to learn more about its inhabitants and how they contribute to human health. But now that we have all of this data (and more accumulating all the time), the challenge becomes making sense of it.Our guest this week, Christine Tataru, is a fifth year PhD student in Maude David's lab tackling this data problem.

    39 min

About Inspiration Dissemination

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Inspiration Dissemination is an award-winning radio program that occurs Sunday nights at 7PM Pacific on KBVR Corvallis, 88.7FM. Each week on the program, we host a different graduate student worker from Oregon State University to talk about their lives and passion for research here at the university. By presenting these stories, we can present the diverse, human element of graduate research that is often hidden from the public view.