Podcasts by The Sci-Files on Impact 89FM

Nupur Huria and Harsna Chahal about Factors Impacting Perceptions and Stigma Surrounding Menstruation: Michigan State University Perspective from 2023-11-19T09:30

Period poverty is an important, yet often ignored, public health crisis. The social shame and steep cost of menstrual products often push low-income people to adopt unhygienic practices during m...

Alyssa Saunders about A Tale of Tailless Sperm: Investigating the Unique Gametes of African Electric Fish from 2023-11-05T09:30

Alyssa studies the reproductive biology of African electric fish, called mormyrids, with a focus on their sperm and eggs. These freshwater fishes are found throughout lakes and river throughout ...

Ben Kline in Out of the frying pan into the fire: How will Coldwater Fish Survive on a Hot Planet? from 2023-10-22T09:30

Ben is a graduate student in the Departments of Integrative Biology and Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior at Michigan State University. His research interests include understanding how species ad...

Megan McGrath about Gaining the System: What the Thalamus can Teach us about Consciousness from 2023-10-08T09:30

On the first episode with the new hosts of The Sci-Files, Mari Dowling and Dimitri Joseph interview Megan McGrath. 

Interacting with the world relies on our ability to take in information ...

Goodbye to Chelsie and Daniel from 2023-09-18T00:00

On this episode of The Sci-Files, Mari Dowling and Dimitri Joseph interviewed Chelsie Boodoo and Daniel Puentes about their research. Daniel Puentes graduated from Michigan State University with...

Welcoming Dimitri Joseph and Mari Dowling from 2023-09-11T00:00

Chelsie and Daniel visited the COGS Graduate Academic Conference (GAC) for the last time. For their final interview, they spoke with Dimitri Joseph and Mari Dowling, the new hosts of The Sci-Fil...

COGS GAC Part 2 from 2023-09-04T00:00

Chelsie and Daniel visited the COGS Graduate Academic Conference (GAC) for the last time. They continued to interview students briefly about their research. Listen to them speak with Jamily Ramo...

COGS GAC Part 1 from 2023-08-14T00:01

Chelsie and Daniel visit the COGS Graduate Academic Conference (GAC) for the last time. They interviewed students briefly about their research. Listen to them speak with Debkumar Debnath, Sam We...

Brett Volmert about Growing Mini Human Hearts from Stem Cells from 2023-07-24T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Brett Volment. Heart diseases represent the leading causes of death worldwide. Researchers commonly use cellular and animal m...

Joshua Kaste about Building Biochemical Traffic Maps from 2023-03-20T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Joshua Kaste. Joshua is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State Universit...

Jamell Dacon about Fairness and Bias in Social Media Dialogue from 2023-01-23T00:30:08

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts, Chelsie and Danny, interview Jamell Dacon. Jamell is the MSU Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His ...

Emily Greeson about Controlling Bacteria with Heat and Magnetism from 2022-10-24T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts, Chelsie and Danny interview Emily Greeson. Emily works in the Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the Contag lab at Michigan State Univers...

Hariharan Ramakrishnan about Reducing Chemotherapy Side Effects from 2022-10-10T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts, Chelsie and Danny interview Hariharan Ramakrishnan. Cisplatin is an incredibly powerful chemotherapy drug used to treat a variety of cancers. However, i...

Anna Kim and Roksana Riddle about Bacteriophage as Plant Biocontrol from 2022-09-26T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Anna Kim and Roksana Riddle. The United States CDC estimates 2.8 million drug-resistant infections resulting in 35,000 deaths...

Sam Barans about Trauma Affecting Psychosis from 2022-09-25T22:05:10

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Sam Barans. Sam researches patient histories of trauma in populations at Clinical High Risk for psychosis at the University o...

Zahra Ahmad about Police Use of Force: Changing Policy Can Save Lives from 2022-08-03T17:22:39

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Jamie Liebold. Zahra is a senior studying Comparative Cultures and Politics with Minors in Global Public Health and Epidemiology ...

Alissa Ball about Mushrooms that Eat Metal!? from 2022-07-12T20:01:11

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Alissa Ball. Alissa is an undergraduate researcher in the Plant, Soil and Microbial Science Department looking at using fungi to ...

Jamie Liebold about Closing the Gap in PFAS Research from 2022-06-28T16:15:44

 On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Jamie Liebold. This research explores Gap Junctional Intercellular Communication (GJIC) as a bioindicator of cancer. Cells use G...

Zach Miller about Cancer Cell Line Therapeutic Window Evaluation from 2022-06-20T01:56:49

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Zach Miller. A therapeutic window is a dose range between the minimum effective drug dose (MED) to the minimum toxic drug dose (M...

Andrew Deleruyelle about TimbuR: The People’s Forest Volume and Biomass Estimator from 2022-06-13T09:57:40

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Andrew Deleruyelle. How can one go about measuring the effects forests have on combatting climate change? As a student of forestr...

Maddy Eischer about Sewing&Suturing - Closing the Gap between Fashion&Medicine from 2022-05-23T01:58:42

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Maddy Eischer. 
As a student pursuing a dual degree in Apparel & Textile Design and Genomics & Molecular Genetics, Mad...

Charlotte Best about Myelin, Microbiomes and Anesthesia from 2022-05-16T09:34:22

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Charlotte Best. Charlotte works in a lab that studies the influence of the gut microbiome (all the bacteria in our gut) on the br...

Lauren Emerick about Michigan's Pig Problem from 2022-05-09T01:26:59

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Lauren Emerick. Lauren is a junior studying Fisheries and Wildlife at Michigan State University, working for Dr. Roloff in the Ap...

Gregory Marchal about A Gamble of Life and Death from 2022-05-02T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Gregory Marchal. Gregory's research investigated influenza vaccine hesitancy. This project uses experimental data from rural Wyom...

Grant Bruninga about Saving A Species: Not a Red Herring...but Lake Herring! from 2022-04-25T00:34:38

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Grant Bruninga.
Inland lake herring can be found in lakes all around the state of Michigan as well as the Great Lakes. Howeve...

June Oh about Learning "Cultures" in Science Through Writing from 2022-04-18T02:09:27

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview June Oh. How can an English major help promote critical science literacy for STEM undergraduate students? As a humanities scholar...

Gregory Hess about Smart Networks for a Smart Electric Grid from 2022-04-11T00:07:06

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Gregory Hess. The U.S. electrical grid, the system of control centers, substations, poles, and wires that provides electricity to...

Philip Engelgau about Peeling Back the Secrets to Banana Aroma Biosynthesis from 2022-04-04T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Philip Engelgau. Philip's research aims to understand how banana fruit is able to synthesize its characteristic aroma compounds. ...

Claire Kopenhafer about Gassy Galaxies are Healthy Galaxies from 2022-03-28T00:25:24

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Claire Kopenhafer.
The Hubble Space Telescope has given us many gorgeous images of galaxies, with bright stars and swirls of ...

Alassane Sow about Mushroom Mania from 2022-03-21T02:35:05

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Alassane Sow. Alassane is an undergraduate researcher working in the Department of Microbio...

Brooke Devries about Don’t Lighten Up - Health Effects of Light at Night from 2022-03-14T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Brooke Devries. Brooke is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Dr. Hanne Hoffmann. Her research focuses on daily rhythms in t...

Azam Ali Sher about Drug-Resistant Bacteria in the Human Gut from 2022-03-07T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Azam Ali Sher. Azam is a dual major Ph.D. candidate in Compa...

Megan Mikhail about Disadvantage and Eating Disorders - Overturning Stereotypes from 2022-02-28T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Megan Mikhail. Megan’s research focuses on the intersection between biological and environmental risk for eating disorders, with ...

Serena Lotreck about Automated Hypothesis Generation for the Plant Sciences from 2022-02-21T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Serena Lotreck from MSU's Plant Biology & ...

Maria Milan about Improving Energy Efficiency of Homes in Rural Alaska from 2022-02-14T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Maria Milan from MSU's Civil and Environmental Engineering. Rural Alaskan communities ...

Paul Bylsma about A Mirage in Online Education from 2022-02-07T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Paul Bylsma from MSU's Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education. This thought proj...

Liang Zhao about The Magic of "Poop Water" to Monitor COVID-19 Incidences from 2022-01-31T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Liang Zhao. Liang is a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a lab member of the Listen

Merve Nur Kursav about Productive Disciplinary Engagement of English Learners in Mathematics Classroom from 2022-01-24T00:00

On this week’s SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Merve Nur Kursav. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics Education at MSU and a research assistant in the Connected Ma...

Kayleigh Ward about Building Community in Japan After Disasters from 2021-12-13T00:00

Kayleigh is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy. Following the 2011 G...

Lexi Nadolsky about The Pandemic Penalty on Women and POC in STEM from 2021-12-06T00:00

 On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Lexi Nadolsky. Lexi’s research focuses on diversity and inclusion in the workplace in academia, and how COVID-19 has had a harde...

Jen Fry about Sport Geography is Geography from 2021-11-21T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Jen Fry. Jen is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography at MSU. Particularly limited re...

Lexi Nadolsky about The Genetics of Sex in Electric Fish from 2021-11-15T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Lexi Nadolsky. Lexi’s research focuses on discovering the different ways that the electric fish Mormyrids determine their sex gen...

Nick Chargo about Using Gut Bacteria to Prevent Osteoporosis from 2021-11-01T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Nick Chargo. Nick’s research is focused on preventing osteoporosis by changing the composition of the bacteria in the gut. Menopa...

Justin Wigard about Graphic Medicine, Critical-Making, and English Classrooms from 2021-10-25T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Justin Wigard. As a 2021-2022 Scholarship of Undergraduate Teaching and Learning (SUTL) Fellow, Ph.D. Candidate Justin Wigard, al...

Nathan Kauffman about How to Use the Immune System to Fight Cancer from 2021-10-18T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Nathan Kauffman. Nate's research revolves around developing novel radiopharmaceuticals and delivery strategies to combat solid ca...

Robert Stanley about Rising From the Ashes from 2021-10-11T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Robert Stanley. The invasive Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis, EAB), the most destructive forest tree insect in North Ameri...

Jenna Beffel about The Siblings of Children with Autism from 2021-10-04T00:00

On this week's SciFiles, your hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Jenna Beffel, a 4th-year doctoral student in MSU's Department of Human Development and Family Stu...

Kylie Smith about The Nose – A Brain Health Revolutionary from 2021-09-27T00:33:27

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kylie Smith. Our brains are protected by a tight-knit biological wall called the blood-brain barrier. This barrier prevents p...

Andrew Kearney about The Persistence of Salmonella in Sugar Stored for 3 Years from 2021-09-20T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Andrew Kearney. Andrew is a student in the MSU Department of Biosystems and Agricultur...

Ti'Air Riggins about Astrocytes: the Guardian of the Brain from 2021-09-13T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Ti'Air Riggins. Have you ever wondered what it's like to wake up one day and realize that you can move anything below your ne...

COGS Fall Welcome Back from 2021-09-06T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Abdo Korayem, Daniel Maldanado, Max Manz, and Maria Milan about their research projects. This episode took place live at the ...

Yoni Lewis Israeli about Growing Mini Hearts with Stem Cells from 2021-08-30T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Yoni Lewis Israeli. Heart disease is a leading cause of death around the world, and heart defects at birth are the most commo...

Isabel John and Lauren Wiklund about Normalcy vs Solidarity from 2021-08-23T08:44:16

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Isabel John and Lauren Wiklund. Mental health stigma is a significant barrier to receiving mental health care. The two primar...

Conor Bertucci about Microalgae: The Green Machine from 2021-08-16T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Conor Bertucci. With the projected population growth of over 2 billion people in the next 30 years, food and energy productio...

Cameron Bennett about Something's Fishy: Gene Duplicates in Embryonic Development from 2021-08-09T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Cameron Bennett. Cameron is a recent graduate from Lyman Briggs College who majored in gen...

Kewalin Samart about Repurposing Drugs for Diseases from 2021-08-02T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kewalin Samart. Drug discovery takes a significant amount of time and fundings due to its complicated clinical process to get...

Nick Ivanov about Fixing the Internet Inequality with Blockchain from 2021-07-26T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Nick Ivanov. Information technology is ubiquitous, but it is not equally available to everyone - this phenomenon is known as ...

Moh Alhaj and Nicole Mancina about The Promise of Bioplastics from 2021-07-19T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Moh Alhaj and Nicole Mancina.
Led by Dr. Ramani Narayan, the Bi...

Avery Tilley about Deer, Mosquitos, and Us: A New Look at Wildlife Disease from 2021-07-12T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Avery Tilley from the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife. Avery's interest in co...

Gia Haddock about The Amphibian Pet Trade Industry is at Risk of Collapse! from 2021-07-05T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Gia Haddock. Gia is a senior Fisheries and Wildlife student at MSU. Having an inte...

Alex J. Roy about Understanding a Rare Movement Disorder from 2021-06-28T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Alex J. Roy. Alex is a dual-enrolled BS/MS student in Lyman Briggs and the Listen

Stavros Vakalis about "See-through" Imaging with Millimeter-waves from 2021-06-21T11:28:29

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Stavros Vakalis. Stavros' research is about advancing millimeter-wave imaging. Millimeter-wave imaging is used in many applic...

Thilani Jayakody and Jacob Jensen about Gene Editing Potatoes from 2021-06-14T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Thilani Jayakody and Jacob Jensen. Thilani is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Plant Breeding, Genetics and Biotechnology pr...

Erika Buhk about Masks Under a Microscope from 2021-06-07T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Erika Buhk. Due to the current COVID-19 Pandemic, many Americans are wearing masks in public to slow the spread. Many people ...

Geeta Kumari about Reducing the Cost of Flights Using Superalloys from 2021-05-31T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Geeta Kumari. Geeta is a joint doctoral program student in the department of chemical engineering and materials science. Her ...

Varshini Perumal about Cellular Senescence in Alzheimer's Disease from 2021-05-24T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Varshini Perumal. Varshini is a 2nd-year undergraduate student studying neuroscience at the Listen

Qian Bates about Tools of the Trade: Paintbrushes from 2021-05-17T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Qian Bates. Qian is a first-year student at MSU studying mechanical engineering. She recently did a project that analyzed the...

Sukhwindar Ajimal about Can Nutrition Predict and Prevent a Heart Attack? from 2021-05-10T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Sukhwindar Ajimal. Heart disease accounts for one of every four deaths in America and heart attacks are a major contributor t...

Jasmine Jordan about De Facto Housing Segregation at MSU from 2021-05-03T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jasmine Jordan. One of the projects that Jasmine has worked on was about housing segregation in the dorms at MSU. Basically, ...

Megan Carrillo about The Gray Space of Medicine from 2021-04-26T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Megan Carrillo. Megan is a 4th-year medical student at Michigan State University College of Os...

Emma Dester and Saad Sharief about Saving Lives with Nano-Biosensors from 2021-04-19T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Emma Dester and Saad Sharief. Emma is a dual-enrolled BS/MD student in the MSU Biosyst...

Hayden Stoub about Taking Aim at Tumor Cells from 2021-04-12T00:49:41

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Hayden Stoub. Hayden is a graduate student in Kathleen Gallo's lab in the Departm...

Sarah Jacobson about Squatting to Make Ends Meet: Immigrants and Housing Occupations from 2021-04-05T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Sarah Jacobson. Sarah examines housing occupations in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s. Although most researchers look at ...

Raisa Glabman about Mapping the Mammary Tumor Microenvironment from 2021-03-29T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Dr. Raisa Glabman.  Dr. Glabman is a veterinarian and fellow in the NIH Comparative Biomedical Research Program (CBSTP) in pa...

Jen Zavalnitskaya about Habitat Management of Asparagus Pests from 2021-03-22T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jen Zavalnitskaya. Jen is a second-year master's student in the Department of Entomol...

Hannah Jeffery about How Fast Cooking Beans Can Benefit Our Future from 2021-03-15T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Hannah Jeffery. The focus of her project is dry beans, the kind used to make refried beans or Bush's baked beans. When prepar...

Chad Hall about Arabic American English - A New Discovery from 2021-03-08T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Chad Hall, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Linguistics. Chad is investigating ...

Alec, Anna, Robert, Nic about Therapy to a New Level from 2021-03-01T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Alec Bailey, Anna Graffeo, Robert Gustke, Nic Weller from the Department of Mechanical Engineer...

Selin Akgun about Educational Research During a Pandemic from 2021-02-22T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Selin Akgun. Selin is working as a research assistant in the Multiple Literacies in Listen

Maria Berry about Learning about Learning from 2021-02-15T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Maria Berry. In her undergraduate research, Maria studies the effectiveness of a high school biology curriculum in fostering ...

Jake Sawecki about a Gutsy Approach to Management of Great Lakes Salmon from 2021-02-08T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jake Sawecki. Jake is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisheries and W...

Shelby Dechow about Tuberculosis Genetics and pH-adaptation from 2021-02-01T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Shelby Dechow. Shelby is a 5th year Ph.D. student in Listen

Brijen, Liang and Maddie About How Wastewater Could Predict the Increase in SARS-CoV-2 Cases from 2021-01-25T00:00:08

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Brijen Miyani, Liang Zhao, and Maddie Spooner. Wastewater-based Epidemiology used to predict waves of SARS-CoV-2 in the Detro...

Kelsey Merreck Wagner about Elephantine in the Anthropocene from 2021-01-18T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kelsey Merreck Wagner. Wagner is a printmaker/painter/textile artist, environmental activist, and second-year Ph.D. Anthropol...

Sam Evalt about A Fusion Recipe: Creativity in Practice from 2020-12-14T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Sam Evalt. What does creativity look like in practice? Sam's dissertation study focused on creativity in practice through the...

Rahul Jain about The Evolution of Elements from 2020-12-07T00:00

“We are all made of star-stuff”, is aptly quoted by Carl Sagan, a famous astronomer. Everything including the oxygen that we breathe, the carbon in our body, iron in our blood, etc. were cooked ...

Lexi Singstock about How Mast Cells May Help Regulate Emotions in Mice from 2020-11-30T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Lexi Singstock. One of the Robison Lab's primary focuses is on how mice react to certain behavioral scenarios and how this af...

Querus Hamlin about Mapping Nutrients in the Great Lakes from 2020-11-23T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Quercus Hamlin. Quercus is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences working under Drs...

Marissa and Emily about The Use of Electric and Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Depression from 2020-11-16T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Marissa Cortright and Emily Castillo. Emily and Marissa investigate the views of psychiatrists, patients with depression, and...

Derek and Brad about Predicting NHL Player Success from 2020-11-09T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny are joined by Cameron McClarren from Impact 89FM Sports Team to interview Derek Lasker and Brad Behan. Sports analytics is a rapidly gr...

Emily Mensch about Novel Invasive Species Management of the Sea Lamprey from 2020-11-02T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Emily Mensch. Emily is a 2nd-year master's student in the Department of Fisheries and ...

Samantha Finkbeiner about Training a Neural Network to Track Fear Reactivity in Human Infants from 2020-10-26T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Samantha Finkbeiner. Samantha is a Senior Neuroscience major in the Listen

Tamas Budner about Radioactive Elements in Exploding Stars from 2020-10-19T00:00

About 30 - 60 classical novae occur in the Milky Way each year. These luminous events can appear in the night sky like "new stars" and are often observed by amateur astronomers.  Classical nova ...

Justin Scott about Extending Design to All People from 2020-10-12T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Justin Scott.  Justin is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. Jus...

Chris Gottschalk about the Apples Behind the Cider from 2020-10-05T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Chris Gottschalk. Chris is in the final year of his Ph.D. candidacy in the joint Pla...

Kati Ford about Turning Pollution Into Biofuels from 2020-09-28T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kathryn (Kati) Ford. There is an increased interest in using Microbial Electrosynthesis to generate carbon-neutral biofuels t...

Osama Alian about Extreme Bacteria in the Deep Ocean from 2020-09-21T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Osama Alian. Osama studies how a community of microbes survives in a hydrothermal vent system deep in the Atlantic Ocean in a...

Katie Mitchell about Keeping Compassion in Virtual Medicine from 2020-09-14T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Katie Mitchell. Katie is a doctoral student in the Info...

Aalayna Green about Gender Roles in Wildlife Crime from 2020-09-07T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Aalayna Green. Aalayna is a senior undergraduate student in the Department of Listen

Matthew Swiatnicki about Novel Mutations in Lung Cancer from 2020-08-31T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Matthew Swiatnicki. Matt is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Mol...

Carolyn Kroger about the Psychology of Spacetime from 2020-08-31T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Carolyn Kroger. Carolyn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Listen

Josh Lensmire about The Metabolism of Staph Infection from 2020-08-24T00:00:08

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Josh Lensmire. Josh is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Molecula...

Anna Raschke about PFAS in the Watershed from 2020-08-24T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Anna Raschke. Anna is a master's student in the MSU Biosystems and Agricultural Engine...

Lin Liu about Globally Modeling Crops for Sustainability from 2020-08-17T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Lin Liu. By 2050, the population in the Africa continent will double and food demand will triple. How can we sustainably prod...

John Williams about Characterizing Killer Compounds for Treating Tuberculosis from 2020-08-17T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview John Tison Williams. John is a PhD-candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Mole...

Garrett Weidig about The Biomechanics of Hand Impairments from 2020-08-10T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Garrett Weidig.
As a lab researching biomechanics, it is the goal of Dr. Bush's lab to study how the body functions. They...

Ryley and Donald about Disordered Eating in Athletes from 2020-08-10T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Ryley Mancine and Donald Gusfa, students in the MSU College of Human Medicine and...

Kaelyn Sanders about School Gun Violence from 2020-08-03T00:26:45

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kaelyn Sanders. Kaelyn is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University, where she receiv...

Lauren Jernstadt about Telecontraception from 2020-08-03T00:14:16

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Lauren Jernstadt. When Lauren is not working as an undergraduate research assistant in the Depa...

Does Sleep Strengthen Unintentional Memories? With Abdulrahman, Erin and Kaylie from 2020-07-27T00:19:06

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Abdulrahman Alharthi, Erin Sawyer, and Kaylie Williams.

Abdulrahman, Erin, and Kaylie are all undergraduates...

Paige Cordts about The Reality of Traveling with a Disability from 2020-07-27T00:02:52

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Paige Cordts from the MSU Department of Mechanical Engineering. Currently, she is working t...

Jenna Walters about Blueberry Pollination with Bees from 2020-07-20T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jenna Walters. Jenna is a M.S. student studying the influence of extreme heat conditions on blueberry pollination and bee nut...

Lauren Collier-Spruel about Effective Allyship from 2020-07-20T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Lauren Collier-Spruel.
Lauren is a doctoral candidate in the Listen

Kevin Kraef about Accessing Affordable Healthcare from 2020-07-13T00:21:43

On this week of The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny speak with Kevin Kraef, a Junior at MSU's James Madison College and Eli Broad School of Business majoring in International Relations a...

Jeremy Gingrich about Plastics in the Placenta from 2020-07-13T00:11:50

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jeremy Gingrich from the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology. There are over 300 ...

Harnoor Kaur about Transgender Homicides in the Media from 2020-07-06T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Harnoor Kaur. Harnoor is an undergraduate student at MSU majoring in Criminal Justice with ...

Kathleen Rhoades about Perfecting Michigan Tart Cherries from 2020-07-06T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kathleen Rhoades. Kathleen is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Listen

Kyle Whitehouse about Self-Love to Overcome Adversity from 2020-06-29T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kyle Whitehouse. Kyle is an undergraduate student at the MSU Residental College of Arts and Hu...

Leigh Anne Tiffany about Expansive Science Reporting from 2020-06-29T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Leigh Anne Tiffany. Leigh Anne is a second-year doctoral student in the Listen

Adam Kawash about the Missing Nova in the Milky Way from 2020-06-22T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Adam Kawash. Adam is a Ph.D. candidate in the MSU Department of Physics and Astronomy.
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Amber, Kelly and Micayla about Talking with Skeletons from 2020-06-22T00:00

Located in the Department of Anthropology, the Michigan State University Forensic Anthropology Laborator...

Dhaval Gandhi about Neuroscience and the Courtroom from 2020-06-15T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Dhaval Gandhi. Dhaval is an undergraduate student at MSU in the departments of Listen

Zachary Morehouse on Shaking Up Virus Detection from 2020-06-15T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Zachary Morehouse. Zach is a 3rd-year osteopathic medical student at Michigan State’s College ...

Megan Miller about Can Spirituality Help With Pain? from 2020-06-08T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Megan Miller. Megan is a registered nurse and is graduating from the MSU Colle...

Hamid Karimi about Teachers in Social Media from 2020-06-01T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Hamid Karimi.

Hamid is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the MSU Department of Computer Sc...

Nick Ivanov on Blockchain Beyond Cryptocurrencies from 2020-05-25T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Nick Ivanov. Nick is a second-year graduate student, pursuing his Ph.D. in Computer Scienc...

Brittany, Christian and Basma about Youth Opioid Awareness Program from 2020-05-18T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview 2nd-year medical students at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Br...

Bridget Walker about Red Panda Thyroid Testing from 2020-05-11T00:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Bridget Walker. Bridget is a third-year student in the College of Veterinary Medicine (CVM) Listen

Pranshu Bajpai on the Menace of Cryptographic Ransomware from 2020-05-04T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Pranshu Bajpai. Pranshu is a final year Ph.D. candidate researching information ...

Zoe Hansen about Bacterial Infections and the Gut from 2020-04-27T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Zoe Hansen. Zoe is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Microbiology and Mol...

The Sci-Files Virtual Q&A from 2020-04-24T12:00

In early April, The Sci-Files hosted its first Q&A session hosted by Chelsie and Danny with guests from past interviews on The Sci-Files. The guests gave small talks about their research. Th...

Victoria Toomajian about Extracellular Vesicle Communication and the Heart from 2020-04-20T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Victoria Toomajian. Victoria is a third-year Ph.D. candidate in the MSU Biomedical Eng...

Kaitlyn Daza about Genetics and the Swine Industry from 2020-04-13T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kaitlyn Daza. Kaitlyn is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Animal Breeding and Genetics Group at the Listen

Funmi Ayeni about Community Interventions for Sexual Assault from 2020-04-06T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Funmi Ayeni.

Funmi is a doctoral student in Ecologi...

Jose Rodrigues about Food Borne Pathogens from 2020-03-30T10:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jose Rodrigues. Jose is a DO-PhD candidate in the Department of Microbiology and Molecu...

Courtney Harrison about Lake Whitefish Infectious Diseases from 2020-03-23T01:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Courtney Harrison.

Courtney is a second-year master’s student in the Department ...

Aaron Staples about Beer Economics and Sustainability from 2020-03-16T10:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Aaron Staples.

Aaron is a first-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Agricu...

Nick Jaffe about Gray Wolf Movement from 2020-03-09T10:00

On this week's The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Nick Jaffe. Nick is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Fisheries and Wildlife. Nick studie...

Nick Young on Graduate Admissions Process in Physics from 2020-03-02T10:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Nick Young. Nick is a Ph.D. candidate in Physics & Astronomy and Listen

Jaali the Baby Black Rhino from 2020-03-02T10:00

In November last year, Chelsie and Danny saw Doppsee, the black rhino, get an ultrasound and they had an Listen

Lauren, Natalie, Arienne on the Coronavirus from 2020-02-24T10:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Lauren Eichberger, Natalie Lyric Kagole and Arienne Patano about the coronavirus.

Lauren is a graduate student in the <...

David Butts on Chronic Wasting Disease and Evacuation Modeling from 2020-02-17T10:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview David Butts.

David is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Computational Mathematics ...

Seyed Mohammadreza Heidari on Green Chemistry Nanotechnology from 2020-02-10T18:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Seyed Mohammadreza Heidari.

Mohammad is a dual Ph.D. student in the Department o...

Mustafa Ahmadzai on the Brain of The Gut from 2020-02-02T09:30

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Mustafa Ahmadzai.

Mustafa is in the dual degree DO/Ph.D. program at MSU, which enables him to blend his love for unders...

Tyler Derr on Graphs and Deep Learning from 2020-01-26T09:30

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Tyler Derr.

Tyler is a 5th year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineerin...

Pratap Bhanu Solanki on Underwater Robot Communication from 2020-01-19T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Pratap Bhanu Solanki.

Pratap is a 6th year Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer ...

Dee Jordan on African Sleeping Sickness from 2020-01-12T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Demetrice (Dee) Jordan.

Dee is a dual-Ph.D. candidate in the Listen

Alyssa Logan on Horse Bone Health from 2019-12-15T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Alyssa Logan.

Alyssa is a first-year Ph.D. student studying Equine Exercise Physiology in the Spartan Equine Research L...

Abdul Abbas on Ankylosing Spondylitis from 2019-12-08T09:00

Abdulraouf (Abdul) Abbas is a graduate student in the Microbiology & Molecular Genetics program at Michigan State University. Abdul works in the Ama...

Tracy Melvin on Climate Change in Alaska from 2019-12-01T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Tracy Melvin.

Tracy is a graduate student in the Fisheries and Wildlife program at Michig...

Jeremy, Ally and Ben on Irrigation Systems from 2019-11-24T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jeremy Rapp, Ally Brady, and Ben McCarthy, all of them are masters students from the De...

Corbin Standley on Youth Suicide Prevention from 2019-11-17T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Corbin J. Standley.

Corbin is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Eco...

Doppsee the Pregnant Black Rhino at Potter Park Zoo from 2019-11-10T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny went to Potter Park Zoo to see Doppsee, the pregnant black rhino, get an ultrasound. While they were there, ...

Mike Pajkos on Exploring Stellar Explosions from 2019-11-03T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Michael Pajkos.

Mike is a 3rd-year graduate student in the Physics and Astronomy and the Listen

Lili Gloe on Anxiety and the Brain from 2019-10-27T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Lili Gloe.

Lili is a graduate student in the Clinical Psychology doctoral program at Michigan State University. Her research focuses...

Rachel Domagalski on Math Networks from 2019-10-21T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Rachel Domagalski. Rachel is a Ph.D. student in the MSU Department of Mathematics. 

Networks are...

Dianna Cowern - Physics Girl from 2019-10-13T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Dianna Cowern (“Physics Girl”).

This interview sheds light on Dianna’s experiences as a science communicator. She is the creator and...

Kaitlyn Casulli on Salmonella and Dry Roasting Peanuts from 2019-10-06T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Kaitlyn Casulli.

Kaitlyn is a third-year Ph.D. student in Biosystems Engineering. Prior t...

Mike Morrison on Realist Versus Dreamers from 2019-09-29T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Mike Morrison.

Mike is a former User Experience (UX) designer who quit his tech career to become a Ph.D. student in Work Psychology....

Nguyen Truong on Type 1 Diabetes Inflammation from 2019-09-22T09:00

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Nguyen Truong.

Nguyen is an MSU Physiology Ph.D. student in Dr. Karl Olson’s lab. ...

Vanessa García Polanco on Immigrant Refugees and the Food System from 2019-09-15T09:00

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Vanessa García Polanco.

Vanessa García Polanco is a master student in the Department of Co...

Cort Thompson on Neural Implant Biocompatibility from 2019-09-08T09:00

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Cort Thompson.

Cort is a Ph.D. student at MSU’s Biomedical Engineering department where ...

Lauren Cooper on Intersection of Forest, Climate and People from 2019-09-01T09:00

On this week, The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny interview Lauren Cooper.

Lauren directs the Forest Carbon and Climate Program at the Michigan State ...

Tatiana Bustos on Health Services in Underserved Communities from 2019-08-25T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Tatiana Bustos.

Tatiana is a 4th year Ph.D. student in the Listen

Kayla, Justin and Jon on Prenatal Infection Affecting Pregnancy from 2019-08-25T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kayla Conner, Justin Lee, and Jon Kaletka, all of them are graduate students from the D...

Diondra Straiton on Parent Training for Autism from 2019-08-18T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Diondra Straiton.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by challenges with soc...

Jaimie Strickland and Matt Kuhn on Cow Immunity and Nutrition from 2019-08-18T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jaimie Strickland, DVM and Matt Kuhn, DVM.

Cows have impressive immune systems compared to humans, yet they tend to get...

Vanessa, Mary, Greg and Emma on Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) from 2019-08-11T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Vanessa, Mary, Greg, and Emma.

Together this team of students conducts research on Per-and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances ...

Tayler Murphy and Victor Gipson II on Mentoring and Creation of Stem Cells from 2019-08-04T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Tayler Murphy and Victor Gipson II

Tayler Murphy is a 3rd year Ph.D. student in the Listen

Anastasiya Lavell and Cameron De La Mora on Mentoring and Chloroplast Lipid Biosynthesis from 2019-07-28T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Anastasiya Lavell and Cameron De La Mora. 

Anastasiya is a fifth-year graduate student in the Listen

Isaiah Kaufman on Plant Resilience to Temperature Changes from 2019-07-28T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Isaiah Kaufman.

Isaiah is currently attending Goshen College with a major in Biochemistry, interested in researching pl...

Kyle Card and Jasper Gomez on Mentoring and Antibiotic Resistance from 2019-07-21T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Kyle Card and Jasper Gomez.

Kyle is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Microb...

Connie Rojas on Spotted Hyena Microbiomes from 2019-07-14T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files Chelsie and Danny interview Connie Rojas.

Connie is a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate in Integrative Biology an...

Nikki McClaran on Perception of Health and Environmental Issues from 2019-07-14T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Nikki McClaran.

Nikki is a Ph.D. student in the Information &...

Ben Hall on Quantum Computing from 2019-07-07T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Benjamin Hall.

Ben is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at MSU in Physics and Listen

Huiyun and Natalie on Mentoring and the One Health Challenge from 2019-06-30T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Huiyun Wu and Natalie Kagole about their mentoring relationship in regards to the One Heal...

Courtney Larson on Aquatic Entomology from 2019-06-02T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Courtney Larson.

Aquatic ecosystems have captivated Courtney Larson and lead her to her research interests to insects t...

Courtney, Katie and Michael on Mentoring and Entomology from 2019-06-02T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Courtney, Katie and Michael to discuss their research, along with mentor and mentee relationships.

Courtney Larson is f...

Faryal and Kate on Mentoring and MRI Protein Engineering from 2019-05-19T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Faryal Mir and Kate Hammond from the Department of Radiology in order to understand th...

Chelsea Weiskerger on Quality of the Great Lakes Beaches from 2019-05-12T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Chelsea Weiskerger from the Department of Environmental Engineering, pursuing a Du...

Jacob Bradburn on Employee Selection and Individual Differences from 2019-05-12T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Jacob Bradburn about his research on jobs. Jacob is a fourth-year doctoral ...

Sara Ayoub on Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR) from 2019-05-05T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Sara Ayoub about her research and involvement with the construction of the Separator for Capture Reactions (Listen

Darren Incorvaia on Bumblebees from 2019-04-28T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your co-hosts Chelsie and Danny interview Darren Incorvaia about his research on bees, here at the Michigan State University. Darren is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Listen

Robert Logan on Microscopic Organisms in Deserts from 2019-04-21T09:00

On this week’s The Sci-Files, your co-hosts Chelsie and Daniel interview Robert Logan about his research on deserts, here at the Michigan State Uni...

Claire Hoffmann on African Carnivores and Human Conflict from 2019-04-14T09:00

Catch this week's episode of The Sci-Files, where Daniel and Chelsie interview Claire Hoffmann. Claire is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Fisher...

Joel Soler on How Light Affects Memory from 2019-04-05T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Daniel and Chelsie interview Joel Soler, MA. Joel is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Listen

Kathryn Wierenga on Silica and Lupus from 2019-03-31T09:00

This week on The Sci-Files, Daniel and Chelsie interview Kathryn Wierenga. Kathryn is a doctoral student in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Dep...

John Tran on Plant BioFuels from 2019-03-24T09:00

On this weeks episode of The Sci-Files, Daniel and Chelsie interview John Tran. John is a Plant Biology Ph.D. student at Mi...

Jennifer Watts on Zika from 2019-03-03T09:00

To kick off The Sci-Files, Daniel and Chelsie interview Jennifer Watts. Jennifer is a Doctoral Candidate with the Physiology Department at Michigan State University. She is also the President of...