GradCast Podcast
1) #BookCast 10 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics
BookCast is an ongoing series where we delve into novels set in an academic context. For the 10th edition of BookCast, Garth Casbourn, Milan Mamman, and Mark Ambrogio discuss the 2006 novel Special T...Show More
2) 541 | The Math Behind Viruses
In this week’s episode, hosts Kuljeet Chohan and Rafaela Platkin interview Jake Daigle, a MSc student in bioinformatics, about his research on modelling mutation accumulation (buildup of genetic mista...Show More
3) 540 | Demystifying Job Hunting Through Peer Advising
In this week's episode, hosts Milan Mammen and Chrishma Perera are joined again by Varsha Vasudevan, a PhD candidate in the Health & Rehabilitation Sciences department at Western University, in the He...Show More
4) 539 | #Inspiring Minds 15: Inside Speech Development, Altered Auditory Feedback, and Growing Voices
In this week's episode, hosts Maris Schneider and Mark Ambrogio talk to Jessica Holmes. Jessica is completing a combined MCISc/PhD in Speech-Language Pathology and Health & Rehabilitation Sciences. He...Show More
5) 538 | Studying Shape: From Human Histories to Earth Processes
In this week’s episode, hosts Kelly Wang and Scott Walters interview Sorcha Rountree, a PhD student in Earth Science, about their journey from archaeology to geology and what studying ancient skull sh...Show More
6) 537 | Zola, but Make it Funny: The Comedies You Missed
This week, French studies PhD candidate Kaitlyn Gagnon takes hosts Garth Casbourn and Mark Ambrogio into both the literary and theatrical worlds of mid-nineteenth-century France. Her research focus is...Show More
7) 536 | How Kids Process Stories and Sharing our (Scientific) Stories with the World
In this week's episode, hosts Garth Casbourn and Bruno Mesquita interview Jessica Lammert, a fifth year PhD student in the Cognitive, Developmental, and Brain Sciences research cluster in Psychology, ...Show More
8) 535 | #Inspiring Minds 14: “One-Size-Fits-All” Myth: Concussions are Different in Male and Female Brains
In this week's episode, hosts Milan Mammen and Kuljeet Chohan interview Emilie Potts, a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering, to talk about what we still don’t fully understand about concussions, bra...Show More
9) 534 | Midwives on the Frontline of Maternal Mental Health Care
In this week's episode, hosts Anthony Cruz and Bruno Mesquita interview Shahnaz Shahid Ali, a PhD student in Nursing under the supervision of Dr. Panagiota Tryphonopoulos. Shahnaz's research explore m...Show More
10) 533 | #Inspiring Minds 13: Accessibility by Design: Musical Instruments in Student Hands
In this week's episode, hosts Ryan Baxter and Mark Ambrogio interview Ran Jiang, a PhD candidate in Music Education, in Western's Don Wright Faculty of Music. In her research, Ran explores how certai...Show More