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Superheroes of Science

Feb 24, 2020

Grey is a hydrologist who uses machine learning (advanced artificial intelligence) to get a better sense of where water is currently located on the Earth’s surface, and where it will be located in the future. Hydrologists monitor water around the world, create models to replicate the data they collect, and then use...


Feb 17, 2020

Andy stops in to discuss what he has done with his degree in Geology thus far and how he plans on using it as a foundation into engineering. Andy has worked at Indiana Department of Transportation (InDoT), and Indiana Department of Environmental Management. He now has returned to Purdue to pursue a degree in...


Feb 10, 2020

The Weather Guy, Michael Baldwin is an Associate professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University. In this episode we discuss the first rule of forecasting, what weather models are, and how meteorologists use them to predict the weather. How the Earth is a system that...


Feb 3, 2020

Betsy Parkinson is an Assistant Professor of  Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University. The motto of the lab is “From Microbes to Medicines”. She is looking for new anticancer and antibiotic medicines in the soils by looking at Streptomyces bacteria. Betsy explains that bacteria defend...