STEMpod

How many women in STEM can you name? Let me introduce you to an incredible 8. Every week, enter the life of one of these women as they share what they do, but more so the path--however bumpy--that brought them to where they are today. STEMpod is hosted by Samantha Jones and edited and produced by Ruben Rodriguez. Podcast artwork was designed by Rachel Sibley.

The apple doesn't fall far... | Episode10 (Bonus episode) 10/16/2019

The apple doesn't fall far... | Episode10 (Bonus episode) We wanted to do something different to wrap up this first season, so in this final (bonus) episode I'm chatting with a very special guest who got me hooked on science at a really young age. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11660483

Braaaaaaains | Episode09 10/02/2019

Braaaaaaains | Episode09 Meet neuroscientist, and stellar #scicommer, Catie Profaci, a PhD candidate in the Neurosciences program at the University of California, San Diego. Catie studies the blood-brain barrier, a border between your brain and things in your blood that could be toxic to it. Catie's trying to understand its importance in diseases like multiple sclerosis. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11471483

Tech: not just flip flops and hoodies| Episode08 09/25/2019

Tech: not just flip flops and hoodies| Episode08 Rakhi Voria is the Director of Global Digital Sales at IBM. We chat about her favorite tech creations, the less conventional way she got to where she is today, and the work she does to help women and less represented groups feel that they also belong in tech. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11345225

Understanding female agency through...monkey poop? | Episode07 09/18/2019

Understanding female agency through...monkey poop? | Episode07 Meet Laura Abondano, an anthropology PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin. Laura’s asking some very cool questions about female agency by studying mating behaviors in woolly monkeys. Although much of her thesis work entails picking up and analyzing monkey poop, it also means days spent in the rainforest observing these monkeys, leading to unexpected encounters with some pretty large forest creatures. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11294927

Tunnels are cool, and other revelations | Episode06 09/11/2019

Tunnels are cool, and other revelations | Episode06 Ellesse Lunde is an engineer based in Boston. She has a BS in structural engineering from Purdue and a Master’s in civil engineering and construction management from USC. We chat about Ellesse's career aspirations and the current work she does at a large multinational construction company, how her mom and growing up as a competitive swimmer inspired her to push herself academically, and what it was like transitioning from an all-girls high school into a male-dominated field. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11203694

Once upon a time, you were a single cell | Episode05 09/04/2019

Once upon a time, you were a single cell | Episode05 Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz is an embryologist based in the UK whose work in early mammal development is truly remarkable. She and her lab are asking questions about how we all started out as a single cell, and their findings have important implications for fertility research. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11111369

Math is for everyone (seriously, hear me out) | Episode04 08/28/2019

Math is for everyone (seriously, hear me out) | Episode04 Dr. Rebecca Goldin is a professor of mathematical sciences at George Mason University and the director of the Statistical Assessment Service, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve the use of stats in journalism. I had a chance to chat with Rebecca not only about my childhood fear of math, but her personal journey, why math is more beautiful than most of us think, and why the stereotypes surrounding it are so, so wrong. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/11003489

Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo (in real life) | Episode03 08/21/2019

Baby shark doo doo doo doo doo doo (in real life) | Episode03 Melissa Cristina Márquez is a shark researcher based in Australia. Last year you may have spotted her on an episode of Shark Week, where she and her team searched for a massive hammerhead off the coast of Cuba and she had a scary brush with a crocodile, which of course I asked her about. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/10938386

How the heck did we get here? | Episode02 08/14/2019

How the heck did we get here? | Episode02 Meet Dr. Jennifer Raff. Jenny is a professor of anthropology at the University of Kansas, studying the DNA of current and ancient peoples to ask questions about how humans have traversed and populated continents over the course of history. Outside of academia, Jenny is a pseudoscience-busting science communicator in the midst of writing a book slated to come out in 2020. On top of all that, Jenny has trained and competed in mixed martial arts, so you know she’s not to be messed with. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/10878999

Welcome to STEMpod | Episode01 08/07/2019

Welcome to STEMpod | Episode01 How many women in STEM can you name? Let me introduce you to an incredible 8. Every week, enter the life of one of these women as they share what they do, but more so the path--however bumpy--that brought them to where they are today. /episode/index/show/stempod/id/10808177

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