Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
The National Science Teachers Association
Founded in 1944, the Virginia-based National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) is the largest organisation in the world promoting excellence and innovation in science teaching and learning for all. In this exclusive interview, we talk to Executive Director of...
Dr Edmund Gordon | Dr Cynthia Mc Callister – Centring Students and Changing the Landscape of Classroom Education
Recent advances in science have demonstrated that human learning and thinking are highly social processes, governed by the learner’s ability to manage attention and effort. Drs Edmund Gordon and Cynthia McCallister propose an approach to education that centres the...
Dr Edward Maibach – Climate Matters: A Novel Approach to Educating Americans About Humanity’s Greatest Challenge
Over the past few decades, global climate change has emerged as the preeminent issue facing modern society. In many countries around the world, climate change is shifting weather patterns for the worse, with impacts predicted to grow increasingly more erratic and...
Dr David A Hennessy – The Farmer and the Rancher
A collaborative effort driven by researchers from Michigan State University, South Dakota State University, Iowa State University and North Dakota State University, aims to improve the age-old art of farming. Vast, dry, and flat. The Great Plains of the...
Dr Beate Priewasser | Dr Josef Perner – Revealing Human Nature Through Early Competition
Developmental psychologists Dr Beate Priewasser and Dr Josef Perner at the Centre of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology of the University of Salzburg play games with young children to reveal nuances of social development and illuminate how we...
The STEM Education Coalition
The STEM Education Coalition was founded more than 15 years ago with a mission to raise awareness in the U.S. Congress, the administration, and on the state level about the critical role that STEM education plays in enabling the U.S. to remain the economic and...
Dr Marian Klamer – Language as a Time Machine
Language is the primary tool used by human beings to communicate with each other, allowing them to co-operate, explore their similarities and sometimes even bridge their differences. Yet it can also become a means to dive deep into the past, acting as a time...
Dr James W. Mjelde | Dr Rebekka Martin Dudensing – Shaping Rural Transportation for Elderly Populations
As we enjoy longer life spans, the proportion of the world’s population classified as elderly is increasing. This creates unique challenges for rural communities, where the mobility of elderly residents is often limited by access to safe transportation. Currently,...
Professor Peggy Petrzelka – Solutions to Modern Challenges in Gender, Agriculture and Conservation
In recent decades, farmland in the United States is increasingly cultivated by operators that rent the land, rather than the land owner. This shift holds major implications for land use dynamics, particularly in conservation practices used in farming, and this...
Professor Matilde Inglese – Imaging Multiple Sclerosis: Searching for Patterns in the Brain
Professor Matilde Inglese, Director of the Neurology Imaging Laboratory in the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, is at the forefront of using sodium MRI as a means to better monitor and understand the pathophysiological changes caused during multiple...
Dr Hsien Seow – Changing How People Are Cared For At The End Of Life
By demonstrating the benefits of homecare, investigating palliative homecare teams, and informing healthcare policy, Dr Hsien Seow is aiming to revolutionise how palliative care is provided in the home for Canada’s most vulnerable patients. Failing the dying when they...
Trees for Cities: Boosting Public Health
Trees for Cities – Scientia’s charity partner – has been working on an international scale to create greener cities, engaging over 70,000 people to plant almost 700,000 trees to date. Here, we have had the pleasure of speaking with Kate Sheldon, Development Director...
Dr Mario Noti – Do Modern Lifestyles Cause Food Allergies?
Over the last 30 years, there has been an explosion in the prevalence of food allergies in the Western world. What’s going on and what are the culprits for this epidemic? While genetics may not be blamed for the rapid increase in food allergies over such a...
Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Honor Society
Founded in 1886 at Cornell University, Sigma Xi is an international community of scientists and engineers dedicated to promoting excellence in research, enhancing public engagement with science, and fostering the next generation of researchers. Here, we have had the...
Soapbox Science
Soapbox Science was founded as a public outreach platform for promoting women scientists and their research. Now in its seventh year, Soapbox Science takes female scientists out of the lab and onto the streets, to talk to the passing, unsuspecting public about...
Professor Pamela J. Lein – Contributions To Environmental Health Through Research And Training
Professor Pamela J. Lein is a neurotoxicologist and current Program Director for the Advanced Training in Environmental Health program at UC Davis. She investigates the potential roles of environmental contaminants as risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders....
Trees For Cities
As the only charity working on an international scale to create greener cities, Trees for Cities has engaged over 70,000 people to plant over 650,000 trees in parks, streets, schools and housing estates across the UK and internationally. Trees for Cities helps to...
Professor Elizabeth Jonas – The Mitochondrion: The Powerhouse Behind Neurotransmission
Professor Elizabeth Jonas and her colleagues at Yale University study the function of cell components called mitochondria and their role in neurotransmission. In particular, Professor Jonas is interested in characterising how channels in the mitochondrial membrane...
Professor John Vucetich – Forging A Healthy Relationship With Nature Through The Marriage Of Science And Ethics
Professor John Vucetich of Michigan Technological University spends much of his research life studying wolves in Isle Royale and Yellowstone National Parks. He is also deeply involved with carnivore conservation throughout North America – work that depends on the...
Professor John L. Hoogland – Prairie Dogs Are Charming And Cute, But They Are Also Serial Killers
When John Hoogland first visited a prairie dog colony as a young graduate student, he said aloud to himself, ‘I could study these animals for the next 10 years.’ Forty-four years later, John is still studying prairie dogs, and he still marvels about the sometimes...
Dr Janet Mcelhaney And Dr George Kuchel – Improving Immune Responses To Influenza Vaccines
Dr Janet McElhaney and Dr George Kuchel are on a mission to reduce the impact of influenza in older adults. By examining the relationship between ageing, vaccine type and immune response, they aim to enhance the effectiveness of influenza vaccines in senior citizens....
Professor Philip Hazell – Learning To Help Children Who Hurt Themselves
A desire to improve the treatment of adolescents who engage in deliberate self-harm motivated Professor Philip Hazell to carry out a research study testing the effectiveness of developmental group psychotherapy in preventing self-injury. Why are kids hurting...
Professor Chiye Aoki – The Neurobiological Roots Of Individuality And Anxiety
Professor Chiye Aoki and her team are exploring the neurobiological bases of individuality and anxiety disorders such as anorexia nervosa, by looking into how environmental factors influence and shape the development of juvenile and adolescent brains. Portrait of a...
The American Academy Of Neurology
Founded in 1948, and now representing more than 30,000 individuals worldwide, the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) is the world’s largest association of neurologists and neuroscientists. From funding and disseminating the latest research, all the way through to...
Professor Irva Hertz-Picciotto – The Conception Of Autism Spectrum Disorders
Professor Irva Hertz-Picciotto has been fascinated by early development since childhood. Her interest brought on a life long journey, studying the dangers lurking around the corner for the not yet born – now focusing on risks for autism spectrum disorders. Among your...
The Society For Developmental Biology – Choose Development! Increasing Diversity In Developmental Biology
The Society for Developmental Biology is successfully increasing the diversity of undergraduates wishing to pursue careers in developmental biology through a programme called Choose Development! Lack of diversity in science A 2011 report published by the National...
Drs Sheila Murphy & Lourdes Baezconde- Garbanati – Transforming Health Promotion Through Narrative
Dr Sheila Murphy and her team including Dr Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati, Dr Meghan Moran and Dr Lauren Frank are utilising the potency of narratives in order to change knowledge, attitudes and behaviour and reduce health disparities both in the United States and...
Dr Hidetaka Hamasaki, Md, Phd – A Neat Way To Prevent And Fight Diabetes
Metabolic disease and in particular diabetes are the focus of Dr Hidetaka Hamasaki’s work at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Chiba, Japan. Dr Hamasaki and his team discovered a valuable lifestyle tweak that allows patients with reduced physical...
Professor Jim Koropatnick – Paving The Way For The Future Through Innovative Training And Research
Determined to have a commanding presence on the scientific global stage, Canada has developed crucial plans to generate high yield research opportunities. Two research training programmes known as Cancer Research and Technology Transfer (CaRTT) and Partners in...
Professor Amy Arnsten – Staying In Control: How The Prefrontal Cortex Helps Us Be Human
Professor Arnsten and her team at Yale University have pioneered new insights into the unique ways that the prefrontal cortex is regulated at the molecular level, altering our ability to remember, pay attention, and control our thoughts and actions when we feel...
Jeffry A. Simpson – Taking The Long View On Wellness
Nature vs. nurture is one of the oldest debates in biology. Are people’s lives determined by their genes, their upbringing, or both? Nearly 30 years ago at the onset of the human genome project, scientists believed that once all human genes were known, all of human...
Dr Frances M. Sladek – Turning The Tables On ‘Healthy’ Fats
Dr Frances Sladek is a world leader in molecular biology research. Here she talks to us about her latest research, how soybean oil affects health and what the molecular mechanisms that underlie these outcomes may be. What is your research background and what triggered...