Past Exploring Science Videos
Spring 2021
Week 39
A science battle between Naomi Lahiri, a graduate student in Epidemiology & Public Health, and Bryan Bogin, a graduate student in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry
Week 38
Aarti Sehdev, a postdoctoral scientist in Biology, discusses how fruit flies detect and navigate toward smells
Week 37
April Pruitt, a graduate student in Neuroscience, talks about the brain-body connection of the octopus
Week 36
A science battle between William Eger, discussing public health, and Jonathan DeLong, discussing damage control in your body’s fight against invaders
Week 35
Arcadia Kratkiewicz, a graduate student in Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology, discusses how flatworms can be used to help understand stem cells
Week 34
Nia Harmon, a graduate student in Chemistry, tells us how chemistry can be used to fight climate change
Week 33
A science battle between Alexis Weinreb, discussing building brains one gene at a time, and Wesley Lewis, discussing dissecting diseases one cell at a time
Week 32
Hannah Keller, a graduate student in Anthropology, explores the implications of genetics for Paleoanthropology and discussing some new discoveries
Carlye Chaney, a graduate student in Anthropology, discussing variation in the pubertal growth spurt
Week 31
Jeremy Moore, a graduate student in Microbiology, discusses how bacteria sense their environment and make decisions
Week 30
Jessica Freeze, a graduate student in Chemistry, talks about the strengths and limitations of quantum computing
Week 29
Hannah Nedzbala, a graduate student in Chemistry, talking about her work fighting climate change
Fall 2020
Week 27
Ellie Stewart-Jones, a graduate student in Chemistry, talks about eggs and their uses in cooking and baking
Week 26
Dr. Paul Turner, a Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, talks about his career journey and his research on how viruses adapt to their environment
Week 25
April Pruitt, a graduate student in Neuroscience, talks about the science of dreams
Week 24
A career panel featuring Rick Crouse, a graduate student in Neuroscience, Dr. Zuhair Abdulla, a post-doc in Neuroscience, and Josie Jacob-Dolan, a graduate student in Chemistry
Week 23
Eli Wisdom, a post-bac researcher, discusses how the memory of a worm works, and how that might help us learn about human memory
Week 22
A science battle between Megan Sullivan, a graduate student in Environmental Science, and Andy Morgan, a graduate student in Robotics
Week 21
Kaustav Mitra, a graduate student in Astronomy, teaches us about what stars are made of
Week 20
A career panel featuring Brian Thompson, a graduate student in Environmental Health, Kasey Hancock, a graduate student in Electrical Engineering, and Nick Fisk, a graduate student in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
Week 19
Kathy Zhang, a graduate student in Neuroscience, talks about how our brains develop to let us see
Week 18
A science battle between Sharif Kronemer, a graduate student in Neuroscience, talks about consciousness and Rick Crouse, a graduate student in Neuroscience, teaches us about learning
Summer 2020
Week 17
Garrett Allington, a graduate student in Experimental Pathology, talks about using modern technologies to treat rare diseases
Shannon Leslie, a graduate student in Neuroscience, teaches us about proteins involved in Alzheimer’s Disease
Week 16
Chris Wang, a graduate student in Physics, talks about quantum computing
Matt Cook, a graduate student in Molecular Biophysics, discusses science illustration
Week 15
Sarah Mohr, a graduate student in Neuroscience, talks about why humans feel hunger and how an animal can go for half a year without feeling hungry
Sarah Millholland, a (recently graduated) graduate student in Astronomy, teaches us about Planet Nine - a giant planet that may be in our own solar system
Week 14
Veronica Galvin, a (recently graduated) graduate student in Neuroscience, talks to us about the brain and working memory
Matt Capobianco, a graduate student in Chemistry, teaches us about the science behind LASERs
Week 13
Chris Spalding, a postdoctoral fellow in Astrophysics, takes us back in time to meet some of Earth’s lesser-known prehistoric creatures
Claire Cody, a graduate student in Chemistry, teaches us about the chemistry of fireworks
Week 12
Diondra Dilworth, a graduate student in Chemistry, talks about how we can use the ribosome to make materials other than proteins
Michael Tremmel, a postdoctoral fellow in Astronomy, talks about using supercomputers to learn about how galaxies form and evolve
Week 11
Delfina González, a graduate student in Genetics, teaches us about how DNA mutations can affect heart birth defects
Lily Zhao, a graduate student in Astronomy, talks about the search for life in space
Week 10
Dan Konstantinovsky, a graduate student in Biophysics, teaches us about molecular symmetry and what happens when it disappears
Victor Olmos, a graduate student in Genetics, talks about his family’s neurological disease and the start of his journey to curing it
Week 9
Malena Rice, a graduate student in Astronomy, talks about exoplanets and how she studies them
Josh Pondick, a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, teaches us about 2D nanomaterials
Week 8
Heather Ortega, a graduate student in Neuroscience, tells us what happens in the mouse brain when they make decisions in a game
Sooyun Choi, a graduate student in Chemistry, shares examples of chemicals that make our food look, smell, and taste great
Week 7
Week 6
Mike Bond, a graduate student in Pharmacology, tells us about treating cancer by making cells “throw out” cancer proteins
Rebecca Greenberg, a graduate student in Neuroscience, discusses how she studies memories in the smell system of the fly brain
Week 5
Nick Frattini, a graduate student in Applied Physics, teaches us how we can use quantum circuits to measure atoms
Kaustav Mitra, a graduate student in Astronomy, discusses how high school physics can be used to find black holes and dark matter
Week 4
Rick Crouse, a graduate student in Neuroscience, teaches us about a brain chemical that affects how fast we learn
Chris Anderson, a graduate student in Pathology, discusses how we can use stem cells to build new organs
Week 3
Alexa Soares, a graduate student in Neuroscience, teaches us about how early life stress affects brain development
Grace Swaim, a graduate student in Cell Biology, shows us how she uses worms with glowing brains to study human diseases
Week 2
Melanie Reschke, a graduate student in Biomedical Engineering, guides us through a new way to treat cancer
Nick Fisk, a graduate student in Computational Bio and Bioinformatics, teaches us about evolution and human health
Week 1
Sharif Kronemer, a graduate student in Neuroscience, guides us through a study of consciousness and how we can learn more about our own brain
Julie Labau, a graduate student in Neuroscience, guides us through the sensation of pain: How does it work? What happens when it goes wrong? Do we really need pain?