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Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley  in Environmental Science Policy and Management. She completed an NSF Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. Alex is here with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 115: Dr. Alexandra Harmon-Threatt: Staying Grounded Studying Soil-Dwelling Bees

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Dr. Irving R. Epstein is the Henry F. Fischbach Professor of Chemistry and a member of the Volen Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University, as well as a Professor of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He received his Masters degree in Chemistry and his PhD in Chemical Physics from Harvard University. Irving then completed a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University before joining the faculty at Brandeis. Irving has received a number of honors and awards during his career, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Grass Fellowship of the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Irving is here with us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 114: Dr. Irving Epstein: Balancing it All While Studying Oscillating Chemical Reactions

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Dr. Emily Cross is a Senior Lecturer of cognitive neuroscience and a dancer who shares a dual appointment at the School of Psychology at Bangor University in North Wales and the Department of Social and Cultural Psychology and the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She studied psychology and dance as an undergraduate at Pomona College, and went on to complete a MSc in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Otago in New Zealand as a Fulbright fellow. She returned to the USA to complete a PhD in cognitive neuroscience at Dartmouth College, and then moved on to postdoctoral positions at the University of Nottingham in the UK and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Emily is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 113: Dr. Emily Cross: Action-Packed Research on How our Brains Learn and Perceive Complex Movements

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Dr. Nan Crystal Arens is an Associate Professor of Geosciences at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York. She received her Masters degree in Geology from Pennsylvania State University as well as a Masters degree in Biology from Harvard University. Nan then went on to complete her PhD in Biology at Harvard. She served as a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley and Curator of Fossil Plants at the University of California Museum of Paleontology before joining the faculty at Hobart and William Smith. Nan is with us today to tell us all about her journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 112: Dr. Nan Crystal Arens: Digging Up Clues on How Ancient Plants Responded to Their Environments

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Dr. Steve Ormerod is a Professor of Ecology in the Cardiff School of Biosciences at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. He is also Chairman of Council of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (Europe’s largest wildlife charity), Chair of the Scientific Development Group of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Vice-Chair of the Welsh Water Environment Advisory Panel, and Co-Chair of the Cardiff Water Research Consortium. Steve received his PhD in River Ecology from Cardiff University. He has been recognized with many awards and honors, including being an elected Fellow of the Society of Biology, the Learned Society of Wales, and the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, as well as a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust. Steve has also received the Ralph Brown Expedition Award from the Royal Geographical Society, the Past-President’s Medal of the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, and the Marsh Award for Marine and Freshwater Conservation from the Zoological Society of London. Steve is here with us today to tell us about his journey through life and science.

[Read more…] about 111: Dr. Steve Ormerod: Making a Splash in River Ecosystem Research and Conservation