John, an international master’s student from Haiti, details his return to school after spending over half a decade working in his field. As a student funded by a scholarship from his home country, John explains his experiences with resource and food insecurity, chiefly how he tries to balance his school workload with struggling to find work to subsidize his income. 

Nick, an international master’s student from Saudi Arabia, talks about his experience as a student funded by his employer. With only 30% of his salary to live on, Nick must support his wife, who is unable to work due to visa restrictions, and his 5-year-old daughter, while also being a full-time student. 

Juan, an international Ph.D. student from Columbia who also completed a master’s degree in the United States, talks about his journey grappling with food insecurity and mental health awareness.  

Sarah, an international master’s student from Canada, talks about her experiences with food insecurity and how she maintains a strict budget.

This episode features Jay, an international Ph.D. student from Saudi Arabia.  Because he was a fully qualified Veterinary surgeon but still unable to find work back home, Jay decided to pursue higher education in the United States to improve his career prospects. After nearly 12 years in the United States, Jay reflects on food insecurity and unique challenges faced as a Muslim student. 

Noah, an international Ph.D. student from Nigeria, talks about visa restrictions and how building a community helped him navigate issues with food insecurity. 

Have you ever thought about where your milk comes from? In a conversation with UF student Morgan Sheehan, UF Animal Sciences PhD student Emily Lidner gave an update on the state of the dairy industry and what their plans are to educate the public about calf production and milk. She also gave an overview of her research on dairy calf performance. 

DNA makes up our genes, influencing everything from the color of our eyes to the likelihood that we're impacted by certain diseases. 

Today's featured episode of the #StreamingScience podcast highlights a conversation between Aljae Lewis, an undergraduate researcher majoring in Biotechnology, and undergraduate student Natalie Rodriguez about the importance of including the ancestral and genetic background of cells in DNA research. They explore how this work can address racial disparities relating to different diseases and even save lives.

How will artificial intelligence impact genetics? How is the equine industry incorporating artificial intelligence? University of Florida student Natalie Rodriguez dove into these questions with researcher Dr. Samantha Brooks and graduate student Maddy Smythe. They explored scientific breakthroughs relating to equine genetics of sport horses. 

When it comes down to research, DNA and genetics are almost always implicated in it. Horse gaits have physical and genetic components to them. In this episode, Dr. Samantha Brooks, and graduate student Maddy Smythe, both in the UF/IFAS Department of Animal Sciences, discuss how artificial intelligence was used in their study of horse gaits. They want to discover which genes are responsible for gait in horses. AI is used to pinpoint certain joints to measure the horse’s stride. Without it, it would take weeks of going through the videos to get these measurements.