Life, the Universe, and Everything: An Unconventional Science Podcast Chris Orban

STEAM factory friend Katherine O'Brien tells another great story on work-life balance, starfish and a scientist she admires at a "STEAM Exchange" event in 2019. Enjoy!

Only a few people have been with the STEAM factory as long as math professor Jim Fowler has. He shares his love for mathematics with another STEAM factory supporter professor David Staley on OSU's Voices of Excellence podcast. You can find more interviews from voices of excellence at this link: https://soundcloud.com/voices_arts_sciences

STEAM factory podcast host Chris Orban sits down with OSU history professor and STEAM Factory friend David Staley for an interview on OSU's Voices of Excellence podcast. From virtual reality education research to plasma physics to cosmology, Chris covers it all in 26 minutes. For more great interviews, check out the Voices of Excellence SoundCloud page: https://soundcloud.com/voices_arts_sciences

On November 28, 2016, an OSU student who was a Somali refugee ran his car into a crowd outside an engineering building and jumped out wielding a knife to try to hurt more people. Although several people were injured, only the attacker died in the incident, which became breaking news around the country and a political flash point only a few weeks after the 2016 election. OSU’s student newspaper – The Lantern – played a central role in providing national news organizations with updates on the situation. We rebroadcast an episode of The Student Slant podcast (https://studentslant.podbean.com/) from OSU’s school of journalism where students talk about covering the event and being in the newsroom that day. STEAM factory intern Jake Rahe, who is also a commentator on the Student Slant, helps to introduce the segment.

Dr. Katherine O’Brien is a research postdoc and outreach coordinator for the OSU Museum of Biological Diversity (https://mbd.osu.edu/). She also helps coordinate the Columbus Science Pub (https://www.facebook.com/ColumbusSciencePub/), which is one of the longest-running and most successful science outreach groups in central Ohio. Katherine shares a personal story of how her love of science helped her overcome obstacles when she was in elementary school.

Sam White is a long-time STEAM factory member and professor in the history department. He shares the story of his unlikely trajectory from working towards a job in the State Department to studying the history of climate change. For more about Sam's work, check out his appearance on the History Talk podcast at this link: http://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/sixth-extinction-and-our-unraveling-world   History Talk is a podcast produced by members of the history departments at OSU and Miami University. Sam's story was recorded on October 5, 2017 at the Columbus Speakeasy (www.speakeasycolumbus.org).