How Can Students Care for their Mental Health?
MENTAL HEALTH: School is already stressful enough without a pandemic and polarizing election thrown in. Nate and Sam wondered how students can take ca...
Hey! I Got a Question About That
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Nate Follmer, videographer extraordinaire and science newb, and Sam Sholtis, science writer and former research scientist, discuss burning—and sometimes not so burning—questions on the leading edge of science with researchers in the Penn State Eberly College of Science who are actually doing the work.
How Do Researchers Work with Deadly Viruses?
BIOSAFETY LEVEL 3: With all the news about COVID-19 and talk about developing a vaccine, Nate and Sam wondered how researchers actually study these da...
What is Graduate School Like? Do Graduate Students Have “Free Time”?
GRAD SCHOOL: It’s season two of “Hey, I got a question about that” and Nate and Sam are back and better than ever. In this episode (with an interview ...
What's Going On at the Eberly College of Science During Covid-19?
PANDEMIC: Nate and Same talk to Doug Cavener, the Verne M. Willaman Dean of the Eberly College of Science at Penn State via Zoom about how the COVID-1...
What are Genetic Tests? Are They Reliable?
GENETIC TESTING: Cheryl Keller, associate research professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, stops by the studio to talk about ge...
What is a Microbiome?
MICROBIOME: Emily Davenport, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, visits Nate and Sam in the newly-revamped studio to talk sh*t. Well, sort o...
Where Do Emerging Diseases Come From?
EMERGING DISEASES AND BATS: Nita Bharti, Lloyd Huck Early Career Professor and assistant professor of biology at Penn State, drops in to the studio to...
What is Big Data? How Does Data Get Big?
BIG DATA: Francesca Chiaromonte, Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Statistics for the Life Sciences at Penn State, joins Nate and Sam in t...
Is Pluto a Planet? What is a Planet Anyway?
PLANETS: Chris Palma, associate dean for undergraduate students in the Eberly College of Science and teaching professor of astronomy and astrophysics ...
How Do Animals Handle Environmental Change? Can They Adapt?
ANIMALS ADAPT: Tracy Langkilde, professor and head of the Department of Biology at Penn State, joins Nate and Sam in the studio to discuss how animals...