Podcasts
Listen to recordings coverage a wide range of career issues and scientific topics.
Science Careers Podcast: Scientists as Quants [MP3]
Chelsea Wald, 21 November 2008
Financial systems executive Lee Maclin talks about the work of quantitative analysts and why scientists often succeed in the field. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800171
Science Careers Podcast: Synthetic Biology [MP3]
Kate Travis, 17 October 2008
Hear three scientists talk about their career paths and the future of synthetic biology research. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800154
Science Careers Podcast: Geoscience Careers [MP3]
Kate Travis, 8 August 2008
Hear from experts and geologists about the current job market for geoscientists. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800121
Science Careers Podcast: A Chat with Micella Phoenix DeWhyse [MP3]
Robert Frederick, 4 July 2008
Micella offers a few parting thoughts after her 6 years of monthly columns as a grad student and postdoc. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800102
Science Careers Podcast: An Interview with Catherine Cardelús [MP3]
Kate Travis, 13 June 2008
The young rainforest ecologist talks about her career path, her research, and what it's like to work in the forest canopy. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800091
Science Careers Podcast: Student-Veterans Come Marching Home [MP3]
Alan Kotok, Kate Travis, 6 June 2008
A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans tell about their new lives as science and engineering students in their own words. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800086
Science Careers Podcast: European Visa Issues [MP3]
Kate Travis, 16 May 2008
A European policy official talks about coming to Europe to do science. DOI: 10.1126/science.caredit.p0800073
Science Podcast: Radioprotective Drugs; Modeling the Supergreenhouse; New Treatments for Alcoholism; Generation Y Workforce [MP3]
Rob Frederick, Kate Travis, Lucas Laursen. 11 April 2008
New drugs help cells survive exposure to radiation; how fewer biological materials in the atmosphere may have led to the Cretaceous supergreenhouse; an expanding suite of therapies to treat alcoholism; characteristics of the Generation Y workforce; and more.
Science Podcast: Predator-Induced Cloning; Organic Molecules in Protoplanetary Disks; Assessing Agricultural Science and Technology; Industry-Academia Collaborations [MP3]
Rob Frederick, Kate Travis, 14 March 2008
Sand dollar larvae respond to predator cues by cloning themselves; finding organic molecules in protoplanetary disks around stars; planning for future food and fuel needs with the largest assessment of agricultural science and technology; getting industry funding for scientific research; and more.
Science Podcast: Croplands for Biofuels Increases Greenhouse Gases; Science Budget; Good Mentoring; Reproducing in Cities [MP3]
Rob Frederick, Kate Travis, 8 February 2008
A new model suggests that land use changes would release more greenhouse gases than biofuels can save in the next few decades; examining the 2009 U.S. science budget; the characteristics of a good mentoring relationship; understanding lower reproduction rates in cities; and more.
Science Podcast: Better Understanding of HIV Infections; Cancer Immunotherapy; Glaciation During the Cretaceous Period; Second Chances at First Loves [MP3]
Rob Frederick, Kate Travis, 11 January 2008
Using a functional genomic screen to find host proteins involved in HIV infection; why it is hard to recruit the immune system to fight cancer; Antarctic glaciers during a very warm period of Earth's history; Science Careers on doing what you love; and more.
Science Podcast: Treating Sickle Cell Anemia in Mice; Exploring Why the Fremont People Disappeared; Designing Superoelophobic Surfaces [MP3]
Rob Frederick, Kate Travis, 7 December 2007
Using induced pluripotent cells to treat sickle cell anemia in mice; understanding what happened to the cliff-dwelling Fremont people; designing surfaces so that they repel oil; balancing work with other things you want to do in life; and more.
