HeyJaredGradCast
GradCast is the official podcast of the Society of Graduate Students at Western University. We highlight the research our university/‘s graduate students. From History to Histology, we show you the cutting edge research of one of Canada/‘s top research universities.
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570 | Sound in the Round: How the Brain Maps Multiple Lines of Music (opens the original)
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In this episode, hosts Anthony Cruz and Ryan Baxter are joined by neuroscience PhD student Nima Zargarnezhad. An amateur musician from an early age, Nima relates how, as an undergraduate in electrical engineering, he developed a fascination with how the human brain works. For his Master's research, Nima was able to combine the strands of his musicianship, his computational skills, and his neurological interests, and bring all three to bear on a project at Western's Centre for Brain and Mind. Usi
569 | Foraging Shin Bones: Studying Tibias Across History (opens the original)
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This week, freshly-graduated MA Cristina Lama talks about her research, and why it’s cool to be studying human bones. Why can the tibia be a better candidate than other bones, when doing research in bioanthropology? What sort of problems and models can we take from the literature, and use that to develop hypotheses and investigate our own questions? What are some of the complexities in working with human samples? Join Mark Ambrogio and Victor Lau as they hear more about some of the richness of C
568 | Health Literacy, Patient Activation, and Specific Learning Conditions: The Impact of Health Communication (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, hosts Anthony Cruz and Anika Bushra interview Stephanie Brocca, a master’s graduate in Health and Rehabilitation Science. Stephanie researches how current methods of communicating health information can be a barrier to health literacy, patient activation, and health competencies in individuals with specific learning disorders, a field not well studied. Outside of research, Stephanie is passionate about mental health awareness and has written a book of poetry on trauma, st
567 | The Young and the Restless: The Effects of Testosterone on Song Sparrows (opens the original)
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In this week's episode, hosts Ryan Baxter and Mark Ambrogio interview GradCast's own Garth Casbourn, a PhD candidate in Biology. In his research, Garth studies how an animal's internal physiology shapes its behaviour, looking at the influence of testosterone on the song sparrow, a migratory bird. The changes in behaviour that Garth studies are chiefly migration-related, looking at both adult males and juvenile sparrows. Garth is studying two related hypotheses: First, the gonadal hypothesis is t
566 | More than Meets the Archive: Sustainable Approaches to Preserving Shared Identity and Culture (opens the original)
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This week on GradCast, hosts Anthony Cruz and Milan Mammen are joined by Jordan Sellers, a PhD student in Library & Information Science (LIS). Jordan researches sustainable digitization practices in community archives, challenging the traditional narrative that full digitization is the only way to accessibly and sustainably archive materials. Her long-term goal is to create an online toolkit to help community archivists figure out the best way to steward their knowledge. Tune in for a fun conver
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