ScienceMatters:The Podcast of GT College of Sciences
Celebrating discovery and achievements in the sciences and mathematics—the podcast of the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 15 minutes
- Episodes
- 31
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2019
Season 1, Episode 8: When People Age and Memory Fails
What is “memory clutter”? Can we make it go away? Audrey Duarte, an associate professor in the School of Psychology, uses magnetic resonance imaging and special tests in her Memory and Aging Lab to d…
00:14:36 |
Mon 08 Oct 2018
Season 1, Episode 7: Sneaking Science into Punk Rock
By day, she’s Jennifer Leavey, senior academic professional in the School of Biological Sciences. When she straps on a guitar, Leavey becomes Leucine Zipper, leader of the rock band Zinc Fingers. For…
00:11:39 |
Mon 01 Oct 2018
Season 1, Episode 6: There’s a Moth in My Video Game!
Simon Sponberg, a professor with joint appointment in the School of Physics and the School of Biological Sciences, studies how animals move through their environments. Among his unusual research meth…
00:16:30 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
Season 1, Episode 5: Visualizing the Birth of Galaxies
Possible scenarios for the birth of stars, galaxies, and black holes come alive in the data crunching and visualizations of John Wise, a professor in the School of Physics. Wise explains how his simu…
00:14:04 |
Mon 17 Sep 2018
Season 1, Episode 4: A Healthy Microbiome for the Georgia Aquarium
Massive whale sharks headline the Ocean Voyager exhibit at the Georgia Aquarium. Its tiniest residents are the ones that concern Nastassia Patin. The School of Biological Sciences postdoctoral resear…
00:09:46 |
Mon 10 Sep 2018
Season 1, Episode 3: Toward a Vaccine for an Ancient Scourge
The parasite that causes leishmaniasis, a scary flesh-rotting disease, is tough to beat, says School of Chemistry and Biochemistry Professor and Chair M.G. Finn. It usually ravages equatorial countri…
00:14:09 |
Mon 03 Sep 2018
Season 1 , Episode 2: Can Lessons from Fossils Guide Earth’s Future?
Jenny McGuire, an assistant professor in the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the School of Biological Sciences, has a tough commute to her summer research site: an 80-foot drop into a de…
00:15:12 |
Mon 27 Aug 2018
Season 1, Episode 1: Giving a Voice to Data
ScienceMatters’ inaugural episode takes us back to the first day of the 2017-18 school year. As Georgia Tech welcomed students with a solar-eclipse-viewing, campus-wide party, School of Psychology re…
00:13:55 |
Mon 20 Aug 2018
About ScienceMatters Season 1
Georgia Tech researchers help a blind man “hear” the 2017 solar eclipse, search for vaccines against deadly parasitic diseases, and rappel deep into caves in search of fossils. Here’s a preview of wh…
00:03:57 |
Wed 15 Aug 2018
A Dean's Valedictory, Part 2
Why, indeed, does science matter? Former College of Sciences Dean and Sutherland Chair Paul Goldbart explains the need for evidence-based thinking. Also, the College adds a neuroscience degree, and S…
00:15:06 |
Fri 18 May 2018
A Dean’s Valedictory, Part 1
A festive solar-eclipse-watching party, a new emphasis on astrobiology, helping to prove Einstein right on gravitational waves – former dean Paul Goldbart recalls the highlights of his tenure at the …
00:14:09 |
Fri 18 May 2018
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