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Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Our guest today is Stephen Steiner: President, CEO, and founder of Aerogel Technologies. Stephen has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Materials Chemistry and Engineering which he completed in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a Master’s Degree in Materials Science...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Our guest today is Stephen Steiner.  Stephen is President, CEO, and founder of Aerogel Technologies, a company based outside of Boston. Stephen has a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Materials Chemistry and Engineering which he completed in the Department of Aeronautics and Astr...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Our guest today is Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames. We also have guests hosts — Serena Bunkin and Riley McManus. Serena and Riley are juniors at The Chapin School and are co-hosts of the Bio Break podcast.  Jodi is a lecturer in the Molecular Biology department at Princeton University. She teaches a resear...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Our guest today is Jodi Schottenfeld-Roames. We also have guests hosts — Serena Bunkin and Riley McManus. Serena and Riley are juniors at The Chapin School and are co-hosts of the Bio Break podcast.  Jodi is lecturer in the Molecular Biology department at Princeton University. She teaches a research...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Elizabeth is the leader of the Metric Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, also known as NIST, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In this role, Elizabeth serves as the national advocate for the International System of Units, known as the SI, in the United States. Our timing could also n...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Elizabeth is a physical scientist and the leader of the Metric Program at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, also known as NIST, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In this role, Elizabeth serves as the national advocate for the International System of Units, known as the SI, in the United States...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Sarina is a product manager at a software company that specializes in lab safety, SciSure . Topics mentioned in this episode: On safe chemical storage: Stanford Compatible Storage Group Guide   Prudent Practices In the Laboratory  CSHEMA - Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Ass...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Sarina is a product manager at a software company that specializes in lab safety — the company is called SciSure . Sarina has a background in chemistry — she received her Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Haverford College, and went on to complete a Master’s Degree in Chemistry from New York U...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Alan Lightman is a writer and physicist. Originally from Memphis, he has served on the faculties of Harvard and MIT and was the first person at MIT to receive dual faculty appointments in science and in the humanities. He is currently a professor of the practice of the humanities at MIT. Alan has authore...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form In this mini episode, Alan Lightman talks to us about the scientific method, why we can disprove but not prove hypotheses, and offers advice to students interested in science. For the full-length interview, tune in on Thursday! Alan's Bio: Alan Lightman is a writer and physicist. Originally from Memphis,...

Welcome to the Science Fare podcast! On the Science Fare podcast, we aim to bring you conversations with scientists doing fascinating, cutting-edge work on all kinds of interesting phenomena, ranging from physics, to chemistry, to biology, and even the nature of science itself. Every other week in Season 3, we’ll release two episodes — a short-ten minute episode on Mondays which focuses on how the...

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode: Science Fare Podcast Feedback Form Focusing on leukemia as an example, Pat Brown tells us how changes in the DNA sequence of a gene can result in cancer. This connects to one of the Next Generation High School Science Standards in Life Science, which states that students should be able to construct an explanation based on evidence for how...

Pat Brown talks about his path to becoming a physician and scientist, the importance of a bench-to-bedside- back -to-bench approach in drug development, and targeted cancer therapy. Using his work in leukemia as an example, Pat talks about how changes at the level of DNA sequence change proteins and can lead to the development of cancer, and how scientists can use this knowledge to develop specifi...

Focusing on leukemia as an example, Pat Brown tells us how changes in the DNA sequence of a gene can result in cancer. This connects to one of the Next Generation High School Science Standards in Life Science, which states that students should be able to construct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry out the essential functi...

Naomi Oppenheimer and Matan Yah Ben Zion talk about their path to becoming physicists and their latest work — a look at the diffusion of a substance made of repulsive particles.  Most often when high school students learn about diffusion, the assumption is that the particles feel no attractions to each other. When you place a drop of dye into a flask of water, the dye spreads. Microscopically...

Season 2, Episode #4.  In this mini episode, Naomi Oppenheimer and Matan Yah Ben Zion talk about their path to becoming physicists and their latest work — a look at the diffusion of a substance made of repulsive particles.  Most often when high school students learn about diffusion, the assumption is that the particles feel no attractions to each other. When you place a drop of dye into...

Our guest today is Dr. Leo Otterbein, a professor of surgery at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School. Leo’s research group focuses on the role of carbon monoxide as a therapeutic agent in medical applications ranging from organ transplant to infection to cancer. Inhaled carbon monoxide is currently in numerous FDA trials based in large part due the research in Leo's lab...

Season 2, Episode #2.  Dr. Dan Hatfield is a senior public health researcher at FHI360 with 15 years of experience developing, evaluating, and replicating community and behavioral interventions promoting healthy eating and physical activity, particularly in children, adolescents, and families. Previously, as a Research Assistant Professor at Tufts University, he served as principal or co-inve...

Season 2, Episode #1.  Mike Shelley is an applied mathematician who uses modeling and simulation to better understand the physics and biology of complex systems. He is the director of the Center for Computational Biology, which is part of the Flatiron Institute — the scientific research arm of the Simons Foundation located in NYC. He also co-founded and co-directs the Courant Institute’s Appl...

In this episode, I give a quick summary of the interview with Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave Daly that aired on Science Fare on Monday, June 17, 2024. Christie and Jody are the founders of the Fed is Best Foundation and authors, along with Lynnette Hafken, of the forthcoming book, Fed is Best.   In today’s episode, we talk about: *The Next Generation High School Science Standard...

In this episode of Science Fare, I interview Christie del-Castillo Hegyi and Jody Segrave-Daly, founders of the Fed is Best Foundation and authors, along with Lynnette Hafken, of the forthcoming book, Fed is Best.   Links mentioned in the episode: Fed is Best Foundation Fed is Best Book New York Times Parenting article on How to Deal with Low Breastmilk Supply Sibling study on breast- and for...

Lisa Ammirati, high school science teacher and chair of the science department at Abington Friends School talks to us about her career as a science teacher and strategies to integrate classroom curriculum with events in the broader world. In this conversation, we talk about: *Lisa’s career in teaching [3:25]; *What it’s like being a department chair [4:58]; *What is uniquely special about teaching...

Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robust and flexible technology it is today.  Here is an informative video on single cell genomics and its use in the effort to make a comprehensive human cell map (aka, the Human Cell Atlas).  In Part 2 of t...

Episode #8. Jill Herschleb, senior director of cell biology at 10x Genomics, talks about her path as a scientist and her work in building the tools that have helped make single-cell genomics the robust and flexible technology it is today.  Here is an informative video on single cell genomics and its use in the effort to make a comprehensive human cell map (aka, the Human Cell Atlas).  In...

At the halfway point of Season One of the Science Fare podcast, let’s have a listen to this special High School Science highlights episode — a collection of clips from previous episodes when the scientists link their work to the high school science learning standards. We have Hashim Al-Hashimi (Episodes 1 and 2) talking about how complexity evolves, Jamie Morton (Episodes 3 and 4) talking about th...