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Michigan Minds episodes

February 10, 2022 Creating Greater Equity in STEM Programs
Erica Marsh, MD, is a professor at the University of Michigan Medical School, chief of the division of reproductive endocrinology and infertility, and founder and director of the onWHARD collaborative. She joined Michigan Minds for this special series to explain her work, detail the need for creating greater equity in STEM programs, and provide words of encouragement for those aspiring to work in STEM fields.
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21 min
February 04, 2022 The Reconciliation of Racial and STEM Identities
Postdoctoral research fellows Kathryn Hosbein and Paulette Vincent-Ruz were among six teams from across the University of Michigan to be awarded grants from the National Center for Institutional Diversity’s (NCID) Anti-Racism Collaborative to support projects aiming to inform anti-racist action. Hosbein, postdoc research fellow in Chemistry Education, and Vincent-Ruz, postdoc research fellow in the Physics Department, join the Michigan Minds podcast to talk about receiving the grant and their project that the funding will support — “Supporting Border Crossing for Marginalized STEM Graduate Students Through Mentorships: The Reconciliation of Racial and STEM Identities.”

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23 min
January 03, 2022 Fostering Innovation to Create Economic Growth for Companies and Communities
In this episode of Michigan Minds, Director of the Economic Growth Institute (EGI) Steve Wilson explains how EGI works with businesses and communities to help them navigate challenges and create positive economic impact. He also discusses difficulties they are preparing to help organizations face in the new year and emphasizes how important students are to helping conduct research on equitable economic growth.
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14 min
December 19, 2021 Influence and Impact: Kids and Social Media

This episode of Michigan Minds features Jenny Radesky, MD, a developmental/behavioral pediatrician and assistant professor at Michigan Medicine. Radesky's research focuses on how the parent-child relationship and digital media use interact to shape child social-emotional outcomes. Radesky emphasizes the importance of research surrounding digital media and its influence on youth as it continues to evolve. She also highlights the significance of creating relationships with young adults and children where honest conversations about social media can be had.

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28 min
December 13, 2021 Facilitating Community Outreach Through Linguistics Research
Teresa Satterfield, PhD, is a linguist and professor of Spanish and romance languages in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. She is also the director of a community outreach and academic Saturday school called En Nuestra Lengua, which means ‘in our language’ in Spanish. Satterfield joined the Michigan Minds podcast to discuss En Nuestra Lengua, how it helps bilingual children, and how she facilitates community engagement work.
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32 min
December 06, 2021 Michigan's Economic Recovery and Forecast for the New Year
In this episode of Michigan Minds, Gabriel Ehrlich, PhD, Director of U-M’s Research Seminar in Quantitative Economics (RSQE), discusses the economic recovery in Michigan as well as the economic forecasts for the US and Michigan economies. Ehrlich's research focuses primarily on macro and regional economics, and economic forecasting.
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17 min
November 29, 2021 How Self Compassion Helps Leaders and Teams
Susan Ashford, the Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professorship in Management and Organization at the Ross School of Business, joins this episode of Michigan Minds to talk about her research, which aims to help people become maximally effective in their work settings, with an emphasis on self-leadership, proactivity, change from below, leadership, and its development.
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20 min
November 22, 2021 NAGPRA at U-M: Learning, Growing and Building Bridges
The Native American Graves and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was passed in 1990 to require museums and other institutions that receive federal funding to follow a process for transferring human remains and associated objects to the Indigenous peoples that have the legal right to them. The University of Michigan has an established set of policies and procedures to guide these efforts, and for the past decade Ben Secunda has been overseeing the project’s implementation.

Secunda joins Michigan Minds to explain the significance of NAGPRA, detail how transfers are conducted, and emphasize that this project is much more than federal compliance — it’s relationship building.

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18 min
November 10, 2021 Collaborative and Innovative Approaches to Mental Health Care for Veterans
In this episode of Michigan Minds, John McCarthy, PhD, talks about veterans’ mental health and suicide prevention — areas in which he has done extensive research. McCarthy is a research associate professor in the Michigan Medicine Department of Psychiatry, director of the Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center at the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, and director of Data and Surveillance, Suicide Prevention Program at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Ann Arbor.
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35 min
November 10, 2021 How Law Students, Faculty Provide Free Legal Services To Veterans
Matthew Andres, clinical assistant professor of law at Michigan Law, joined Michigan Minds to discuss the services available to veterans in Michigan through the Veterans Legal Clinic (VLC). Andres is the director of the VLC, and in this episode he outlines the ways that Michigan Law students have helped veterans with civil court cases, how tough it can be for veterans to transition out of the military, and how veterans can receive free legal assistance from the clinic.

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27 min

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