How To Do Grad School
54 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 3 years ago -On the How To Do Grad School Podcast, our mission is to uncover the habits and systems grad students need to produce great research. We’ll talk with successful current and former graduate students across the world and try to get a sense of what habits, systems and tools they've developed to start and sustain great research projects. New episodes released every Thursday.
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#36: Tahiya Salam - Multi-Robot Collaboration and Social Impact through Research
August 19, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 43.9 MBTahiya Salam is a PhD student studying robotics in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests lie at the intersection of multi-robot teams, dynamical systems, and machine learning. On this episode, we talk with Tahiya about some of the different ways one can have a social impact on the world through research and reflect on what it was like for us to transition from college to grad school. We also dive into research and briefly talk about her work on creating sy...
#35: Kiri Wagstaff - Why We Learn, How to Write, & Fostering Collaboration
August 05, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 59.4 MBKiri Wagstaff works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, as a researcher in the Machine Learning and Instrument Autonomy Group, investigating ways that machine learning can be used to increase the autonomy of space missions. From 2013 to 2017, she also served as a tactical planner and uplink lead for the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. She’s also an Associate Research Professor at Oregon State University, where she is teaching classes in Computer Science and doing research o...
#34: Aaron Parness - Grad School v. Undergrad; Academia v. Industry
July 08, 2021 19:31 - 27 minutes - 39.3 MBAaron Parness is a Principal Research Scientist at Amazon Robotics & AI, where he focuses on robotic manipulation, developing new capabilities for the fulfillment process both inside and outside the warehouse. He helps set the direction of the Robotics & AI organization, consults with other teams across Amazon, and owns technical deliverables like new end of arm tools, workcell designs, and process flow concepts. Prior to joining Amazon, he spent 9 years at NASA JPL, where he founded and b...
#33: Hannah Kerner - Remote Sensing with ML & Starting Your Professorship
June 24, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 45.2 MBHannah Kerner is an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research focuses on developing machine learning solutions for remote sensing applications in agricultural monitoring, food security, and Earth/planetary science. She is also the Machine Learning Lead and U.S. Domestic Co-Lead for NASA Harvest, NASA’s agriculture and food security initiative run out of the University of Maryland. She completed her Ph.D. at Arizona State University on machine lear...
#32: Akash Trivedi - Valuable Practices for the Start & End of Your PhD
June 10, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 43.6 MBAkash Trivedi is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford where he recently obtained his DPhil (or PhD) in Engineering Science. His research focuses on the impact behavior of soft polymers and composites. Akash also aspires to be an astronaut for the European Space Agency, works with younger aspiring engineers as a mentor, coach and tutor, and has supported more than 950 students through their education, graduate studies and personal development. Check out his website and Inte...
#31: Julia Gonski - High-Energy Physics & Growth Mindsets
May 27, 2021 10:00 - 41 minutes - 58.8 MBJulia Gonski is a post-doctoral physicist at Columbia University, and a recent Ph.D. graduate and from the Harvard ATLAS group. Her research applies novel machine learning techniques to find interesting events in the terabytes of data produced by the Large Hadron Collider. Her work led to the first neural net-based tool to find evidence of high momentum Higgs particles that decay in a common way via data produced by the ATLAS detector. Learn more about her work on Twitter @JuliaGonski and ...
#30: Matthew Clarke - Flying Cars & Giving Technical Talks
May 13, 2021 10:00 - 35 minutes - 50.3 MBMatthew Clarke is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University. His research focuses on the development of tools to design, analyze and optimize non-conventional, supersonic and electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. Reach out to Matthew via his website, where you can find his email, or on Twitter @matthew_ac. Changing World by Ben Beiny www.premiumbeat.com
#29: Naia Butler-Craig - Deep Space Propulsion & Recalibrating Your Goals
April 29, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 46.8 MBNaia Butler-Craig is an Aerospace Engineering PhD Student, NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Fellow and GEM Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She is a member of the High-Power Electric Propulsion Lab. She obtained her B.S in Aerospace Engineering with special concentration in Astronautics and a minor in Computational Mathematics Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. She hopes to become a mission specialist astronaut and to contribute to deep space exploratio...
#28: Kwesi Rutledge - Big Ideas & Formal Methods
April 15, 2021 10:00 - 39 minutes - 55.7 MBKwesi Rutledge is a PhD Student at the University of Michigan's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. His research focuses on an area called Correct-By-Construction Control. Check out Kwesi’s website and find him on Twitter @FerventEcrivain Changing World by Ben Beiny www.premiumbeat.com
#27: Jen Polk - From PhD to Life
April 01, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 42.6 MBJennifer Polk, PhD, is a career coach and expert on PhD careers. She launched From PhD to Life, a career coaching and speaking business, in 2013. She co-founded Beyond the Professoriate in 2014, a business she exited in 2020. Jen writes on graduate education and careers for doctoral-degree holders. She is also a guest speaker on university campuses and at academic and professional conferences throughout North America and beyond. Her University Affairs blog is a three-time gold winner from th...
[Inbetweenisode] Kaila Crosse - Reflections on an Education Career & the HBCU Experience
March 18, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 58.2 MBKaila Crosse recently completed her B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2020, closing out her dual degree program after spending 3 years at Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, one of the premiere historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the nation. In this conversation, we get a look into HBCU life as we talk about Kaila's development at Spelman as well as her transition to Michigan and what she's learned about herself and working with others a...
#26: Lester Su - Starting Grad School at 19, the Job Market, & Teaching Pedagogy
March 04, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 63 MBLester K. Su is a lecturer at Stanford University. He obtained his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan in 1995. He was a research fellow at the University of Texas at Austin as well as Stanford University before serving as a Congressional Fellow (through the American Society of Mechanical Engineers) in the U.S. Congress in 2000-2001. Before returning to Stanford to teach, he was a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. "Quantification of ...
#25: Alec D. Gallimore - Space Propulsion, Social Justice, & Being Dean (Black History Month Audio Series)
February 18, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 36.3 MBAlec D. Gallimore is the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering and Richard F. and Eleanor A. Towner Professor of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He was formerly Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education from 2011 to 2013 and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering from 2014 to 2016. He is a member of the Applied Physics graduate program, and from 2005 to 2011, Professor Gallimore served as an Associate Dean at the Horace H. Rackham School of Gradu...
#24: Kaitlyn Mallett - Family, Friendships & Research (Black History Month Audio Series)
February 11, 2021 11:00 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBKaitlyn Mallett earned her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in at the University of Michigan in 2017. While completing her Ph.D., Kaitlyn worked to experimentally characterize native ACL and replacement grafts to elucidate their material properties. Her work led to the development of accurate theoretical constitutive models that capture the mechanical response of biological specimens. Kaitlyn then went on to work on an innovative team at Intel Corporation, looking to address problems at Intel...
#23: David Kwabi - New Environments & Research for the Climate (Black History Month Audio Series)
February 04, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 45.1 MBThis episode is part of the Black History Month Audio Series we worked with Michigan Mechanical Engineering to put together. David Kwabi is an Assistant Professor in the Mechanical Engineering department at the University of Michigan. He obtained his PhD in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research group investigates the interplay between electrochemical charge transfer reactions and b...
#22: Amanda X. Chen - Balancing Your Losses with Wins
January 28, 2021 11:00 - 38 minutes - 46.8 MBAmanda X. Chen obtained her PhD in Biological Engineering from MIT in 2020. While there, she worked on "microlivers," which could enable next-generation cell therapies that could help, or maybe even replace, organ transplants for end-stage diseases. She is now a scientist at a Cambridge startup called Satellite Bio. Amanda was also recognized by the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 Science list for her work. -- Check out the new website: how2dogradschool.com References: MIT Communication La...
#21: Nia Johnson - Planting Resilience
December 17, 2020 11:00 - 21 minutes - 24.3 MBNia Johnson is a PhD student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Howard University and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellow. Changing World by Ben Beiny www.premiumbeat.com
#20: Ram Vasudevan - The Joys of Learning in Public
December 10, 2020 11:00 - 27 minutes - 32.7 MBRam Vasudevan is an assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan with an appointment in the University of Michigan's Robotics Program. He received a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and an Honors Degree in Physics in 2006, an MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 2009, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering in 2012 all from the University of California, Berkeley. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral associate in the Locomotion Group at MIT ...
#19: Chelsea Onyeador & Wilka Carvalho - Finding Gaps in Your Grad School Apps
December 03, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 47.3 MBApplying to graduate school can be a maze with questions that are difficult to find answers to. On this episode, we try to answer some of those questions with some help from current grad students, Chelsea Onyeador and Wilka Carvalho. Chelsea is pursuing a Master of Science degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, with plans to continue to receive a Ph.D. with the Hypersonics Research Group. Her current research interests lie in fluid mechanics, computational methods, hypersonic bound...
#18: Anita Shao - Lab Cultures, Exploring New Fields, & Ideas for Impact
November 12, 2020 11:30 - 16 minutes - 20.6 MBAnita Shao is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. Originally from Tianjin, China. she earned her B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on electrochemical sulfur recovery from anaerobic effluents to facilitate fertilizer production.
#17: Yves Nazon II - Sharing Culture through Research & Travel
November 05, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 47.3 MBYves Nazon II is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan and received the MS degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University. During his time as an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), he participated in the Meyerhoff Scholars and the MARC U*STAR trainee programs. He also worked in the Energy Harvesting & Design Optimization Lab and did summer research at Purdue University, MIT, and University of Southern Cal...
#16 - Emily Roberts: Personal Finance for Graduate Students
October 29, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 41.4 MBEmily Roberts is an entrepreneur whose mission is to inspire and empower early-career PhDs to make the most of their money. She obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke in 2014 and now engages with graduate students and postdocs through her Personal Finance for PhDs seminars, coaching, and websites, Personal Finance for PhDs and PhD Stipends. Learn more on the site: http://pfforphds.com/
#15 - Alejandro F. Azocar: School Hops and Co-ops
October 22, 2020 10:00 - 27 minutes - 32.8 MBAlejandro F. Azocar is an engineer and scientist experienced in cross-functional projects spanning mechanical, electrical, and software, with a background in the biomedical and aerospace industries. He is currently a Robotics and Biomechanics resident at (Google) X. He holds a bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from Texas A&M University, a master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University, and a doctoral degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of M...
#14: Lorelay Mendoza - Transitions to Grad School, Research Programs, and Writing
October 15, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBLorelay Mendoza is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. She is interested in resource recovery from waste, environmental justice, and the fate of contaminants in electrochemical treatment systems and the environment. MARC U-STAR: Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research - https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/marc/pages/FAQs.aspx Changi...
#14 - Lorelay Mendoza: Transitions to Grad School, Research Programs, and Writing
October 15, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 30.9 MBLorelay Mendoza is a PhD student in Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and holds a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from San Diego State University. She is interested in resource recovery from waste, environmental justice, and the fate of contaminants in electrochemical treatment systems and the environment. MARC U-STAR: Maximizing Access to Research Careers Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research - https://www.nigms.nih.gov/training/marc/pages/FAQs.aspx Changi...
#13 - Lucas Dong: Critical Thinking & Overcoming Frustration
October 08, 2020 10:00 - 25 minutes - 24.3 MBHang (Lucas) Dong is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University. He was born and raised in China and holds a PhD from Lehigh University. His research focuses on the combination of electrochemistry and ion exchange for selective water treatment and nutrient recovery.
#12 - Allison Okamura: The Road to a Faculty Career
October 01, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 30.1 MBAllison Okamura is a Professor in the mechanical engineering department at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in computer science. She received the BS degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and the MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. She is an IEEE Fellow and is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the journal IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. Her awards include the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Technical Achievement Award, IEEE Roboti...
#11: Teaching, Collaborations, & Getting Started in Research – Daniel Bruder (U. Michigan, Harvard)
September 24, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBDaniel Bruder is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. His research interests include robotics, dynamics, and controls with a specific focus on soft robots. Currently, he is exploring physics-based and data-driven modeling and control methods for soft robots in an effort to make such systems more capable and reliable. He is originally from Farmington Hills, Michigan and received a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2013. After graduating, he worked as a math...
#11: Daniel Bruder - Teaching, Collaborations, & Getting Started in Research
September 24, 2020 10:00 - 34 minutes - 32.1 MBDaniel Bruder is a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University. His research interests include robotics, dynamics, and controls with a specific focus on soft robots. Currently, he is exploring physics-based and data-driven modeling and control methods for soft robots in an effort to make such systems more capable and reliable. He is originally from Farmington Hills, Michigan and received a B.S. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University in 2013. After graduating, he worked as a math...
#10: Cannabis Policy Research, Entrepreneurship, & Overcoming Failure – Jessica Steinberg (Oxford)
September 17, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 47.3 MBJessica is a PhD student in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, researching the cannabis industry. Her research explores how cannabis companies influence cannabis policies. More specifically, she looks at the business decisions, investment deals and commercial relations that informally shift the law, morality, perceptions, and stigmas. She is an official delegate for cannabis related meetings held at the UN and WHO and is Managing Director of an international ca...
#10: Jessica Steinberg - Cannabis Policy Research, Entrepreneurship, & Overcoming Rejection
September 17, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 47.3 MBJessica is a PhD student in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, researching the cannabis industry. Her research explores how cannabis companies influence cannabis policies. More specifically, she looks at the business decisions, investment deals and commercial relations that informally shift the law, morality, perceptions, and stigmas. She is an official delegate for cannabis related meetings held at the UN and WHO and is Managing Director of an international ca...
#10: Cannabis Policy Research, Entrepreneurship, & Overcoming Rejection – Jessica Steinberg (Oxford)
September 17, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 47.3 MBJessica is a PhD student in the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford, researching the cannabis industry. Her research explores how cannabis companies influence cannabis policies. More specifically, she looks at the business decisions, investment deals and commercial relations that informally shift the law, morality, perceptions, and stigmas. She is an official delegate for cannabis related meetings held at the UN and WHO and is Managing Director of an international ca...
#09: Work on Important Problems – Devin Guillory (Etsy, UC Berkeley)
September 10, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 28.9 MBDevin Guillory is currently a PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley advised by Trevor Darrell. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research areas of focus are Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Devin’s active research interests include problems of learning with less labels and improving Out-of-Distribution model performance. Prior to UC Berkeley, Devin worked as a Staff Data Scientist at Etsy where he served as Technical Lead o...
#09: Devin Guillory - Work on Important Problems
September 10, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 28.9 MBDevin Guillory is currently a PhD student in computer science at UC Berkeley advised by Trevor Darrell. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His research areas of focus are Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Devin’s active research interests include problems of learning with less labels and improving Out-of-Distribution model performance. Prior to UC Berkeley, Devin worked as a Staff Data Scientist at Etsy where he served as Technical Lead o...
#08: Timnit Gebru - Live Your Life in Grad School
September 03, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 29.7 MBTimnit Gebru is an AI researcher on the Ethical AI team at Google. Prior to working at Google, she did a postdoc at Microsoft Research in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) group after getting her PhD from Stanford University. Before her PhD, she also worked at Apple designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various Apple products including the first iPad. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and is the co-founder of Black in AI, a comm...
#08: Live Your Life in Grad School - Timnit Gebru (Stanford, Google AI)
September 03, 2020 10:00 - 28 minutes - 29.7 MBTimnit Gebru is an AI researcher on the Ethical AI team at Google. Prior to working at Google, she did a postdoc at Microsoft Research in the FATE (Fairness Transparency Accountability and Ethics in AI) group after getting her PhD from Stanford University. Before her PhD, she also worked at Apple designing circuits and signal processing algorithms for various Apple products including the first iPad. She is an advocate for diversity in technology and is the co-founder of Black in AI, a comm...
#07: Addressing Systemic Racism Through Research - Gerald Higginbotham (Stanford, UCLA)
August 27, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 43.8 MBGerald Higginbotham is a PhD student in Social Psychology at University of California-Los Angeles. The article we discuss is called “’Reparations?’: A case study of White Americans’ psychology toward past racial wrong-doing” and can be found here: https://www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/2019/9/22/reparations-a-case-study-of-white-americans-psychology-toward-past-racial-wrong-doing Changing World by Ben Beiny www.premiumbeat.com
#07: Gerald Higginbotham - Addressing Systemic Racism Through Research
August 27, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 43.8 MBGerald Higginbotham is a PhD student in Social Psychology at University of California-Los Angeles. The article we discuss is called “’Reparations?’: A case study of White Americans’ psychology toward past racial wrong-doing” and can be found here: https://www.psychologyinaction.org/psychology-in-action-1/2019/9/22/reparations-a-case-study-of-white-americans-psychology-toward-past-racial-wrong-doing Changing World by Ben Beiny www.premiumbeat.com
#06: Heather Beem - Entrepreneurship in Grad School
August 20, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 29.9 MBHeather holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During her time in graduate school, she began working with MIT D-Lab and developed a passion for STEM education and indigenous innovation. At D-Lab, she co-founded and co-instructed D-Lab: Education in addition to mentoring students from other D-Lab classes. While at MIT, she began developing the Practical Education Network (PEN) with a team of fellow students and others. They won numerous c...
#06: Entrepreneurship in Grad School – Heather Beem (MIT, Practical Education Network)
August 20, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 29.9 MBHeather holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During her time in graduate school, she began working with MIT D-Lab and developed a passion for STEM education and indigenous innovation. At D-Lab, she co-founded and co-instructed D-Lab: Education in addition to mentoring students from other D-Lab classes. While at MIT, she began developing the Practical Education Network (PEN) with a team of fellow students and others. They won numerous c...
#05: Uriah Israel - The Mutual Improvement Society
August 13, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBUriah Israel holds a PhD in Applied Physics and Complex Systems from the University of Michigan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. We discuss the setup of our research accountability group, the Mutual Improvement Society, reading, writing and how to build research skills. Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper - https://www.tulane.edu/~lamp/whiteside.pdf Changing World by Ben Beiny: www.premiumbeat.com
#05: The Mutual Improvement Society - Uriah Israel (UM, CalTech)
August 13, 2020 10:00 - 24 minutes - 17.6 MBUriah Israel holds a PhD in Applied Physics and Complex Systems from the University of Michigan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the California Institute of Technology. We discuss the setup of our research accountability group, the Mutual Improvement Society, reading, writing and how to build research skills. Whitesides’ Group: Writing a Paper - https://www.tulane.edu/~lamp/whiteside.pdf Changing World by Ben Beiny: www.premiumbeat.com
BONUS: 'You and Your Research' by Richard Hamming
August 09, 2020 17:52 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this bonus episode, I read from an essay called “You and Your Research” in Richard Hamming’s book, “The Art of Doing Science and Engineering.”
BONUS: You and Your Research by Richard Hamming
August 09, 2020 17:52 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this bonus episode, I read from an essay called “You and Your Research” in Richard Hamming’s book, “The Art of Science and Engineering.”
#04: Korie Grayson - How to Be Graduate Student of the Year
August 06, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 41.8 MBKorie Grayson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. After undergrad, Korie worked at a biomedical device company called CryoLife in Atlanta, GA manufacturing the HeRO Graft, the only fully subcutaneous graft clinically proven to maintain long-term access for hemodialysis patients with central venous stenosis. Shortly after, Korie was accepted into the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Degree program at...
#04: How to Be Graduate Student of the Year - Korie Grayson (Cornell, UM)
August 06, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 41.8 MBKorie Grayson is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Michigan. She holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University. After undergrad, Korie worked at a biomedical device company called CryoLife in Atlanta, GA manufacturing the HeRO Graft, the only fully subcutaneous graft clinically proven to maintain long-term access for hemodialysis patients with central venous stenosis. Shortly after, Korie was accepted into the Biomedical Engineering Graduate Degree program at...
#03: William Tarpeh - Find Your Mentors
July 30, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 29.2 MBWilliam Tarpeh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. We discuss a wide range of topics including contextualizing your research in the literature, PhD accountability groups, and the importance of mentorship in grad school. Will is the Director of the Tarpeh Lab, which develops and evaluates novel approaches to resource recovery from “waste” waters at several synergistic scales: molecular mechanisms of chemical transport and transformation; novel unit proc...
#03: Find Your Mentors - William Tarpeh (UC Berkeley, Stanford)
July 30, 2020 10:00 - 26 minutes - 29.2 MBWilliam Tarpeh is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. We discuss a wide range of topics including contextualizing your research in the literature, PhD accountability groups, and the importance of mentorship in grad school. Will is the Director of the Tarpeh Lab, which develops and evaluates novel approaches to resource recovery from “waste” waters at several synergistic scales: molecular mechanisms of chemical transport and transformation; novel unit proc...
#02: Writing with Feeling - Lola Eniola-Adefeso (UPenn, UM)
July 23, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 17.3 MBOmolola (Lola) Eniola-Adefeso is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. We discuss how she got involved in research through undergraduate opportunities, some of her feelings about writing and some great advice for newly minted grad students. She is currently a Professor and Miller faculty Scholar in the University of Michigan's Chemical Engineering department. She serves as Vice Chair for Graduate Studies and has appointments in Biomedical Engineering as well as...
#02: Lola Eniola-Adefeso - Writing with Feeling
July 23, 2020 10:00 - 22 minutes - 17.3 MBOmolola (Lola) Eniola-Adefeso is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan. We discuss how she got involved in research through undergraduate opportunities, some of her feelings about writing and some great advice for newly minted grad students. She is currently a Professor and Miller faculty Scholar in the University of Michigan's Chemical Engineering department. She serves as Vice Chair for Graduate Studies and has appointments in Biomedical Engineering as well as...