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Dr. Shauna Henley is a Family and Consumer Sciences Educator with the University of Maryland Extension working in Northern Maryland. She delivers programs that center on nutrition, food safety, and physical activity. She holds a Ph.D. in Biology with a concentration in Human Nutrition from Drexel University, a M.S. in Nutrition and Food Science from the University of Vermont, and a B.S. in Biology from Muhlenberg College.In this episode, Shauna talks about her path into food science and safety, common misconceptions about food safety, the Don't Wash Your Chicken campaign, canning, and the important legislation in the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). She also gives advice to students interested in food science and safety. Resources mentioned in the episode:Don't Wash Your Chicken Germ Vision 14-Second Animation Buzzfeed Home Economics Trivia Quiz Produce Trainer Food Safety ToolkitNational Center for Home Food Preservation

In this mini episode, Dr. Shauna Henley tells us about the importance of pH in canning food. Tune in next week for the full-length interview.

Welcome to the Science Fare podcast! On the Science Fare podcast, I bring you conversations with scientists doing fascinating, cutting-edge work on all kinds of interesting phenomena, ranging from physics to chemistry to biology and even the nature of science itself. In the conversation, I help draw connections between the scientist's research and part of the high school science curriculum. In Season 5, new episodes come out every Wednesday, featuring a mini episode that focuses on the high school science connection and then the following week, the full-length interview. Please subscribe and leave a review -- it helps others find the podcast!

Science teacher extraordinaire Carla Guarraia,who teaches at The Park School of Baltimore and is also the chair of the Upper School Science Department, tells us about her path to pursuing science and then science teaching, the way she integrates research into her teaching, and gives advice to students interested in pursuing science. Resources mentioned in this episode:Carla’s Park School faculty page The Shape of Wonder by Alan Lightman book The Plastics Paradox by Chris DeArmitt book Precious Plastics Manor Mill Science Friday podcast episode about plastics contamination Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode:Science Fare Podcast Feedback FormScience Fare Podcast website Highlights of the episode:*Opening quote by Carla on appreciating that learning should feel hard[0:01];*Susan introduces Park School of Baltimore science teacher and upper school department chair Carla Guarraia and they thank Manor Mill for letting them record in the space [1:08];  *Carla talks about her path to studying science and becoming a science teacher [3:43];*What Carla joins most about her job as a high school science teacher [18:30];*How Carla integrates research into her teaching with a focus on two classes — plastics and integrative medicine [22:05];*Deeper dive into Carla’s work on the International Student-led Arctic Monitoring and Research (ISAMR) program [35:33];*Carla’s advice for high school students interested in science [47:48]

In this mini episode, we hear from science teacher extraordinaire Carla Guarraia who teaches at The Park School of Baltimore and is also the chair of the Upper School Science Department. Carla tells us about an innovative plastics class she teaches that challenges students’ views on plastics and gets them involved in research on plastics. Tune in next week for the full-length interview and the last episode of Season 4! Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode:Science Fare Podcast Feedback FormScience Fare Podcast website 

In this mini episode, astrobiologist Sean Jordan (Dublin City University) talks about his lab’s work on lipids and the origins of cell membranes. While the earliest cell membranes, aka protocell membranes, were quite different from the cell membranes of today, they also share some important biochemical similarities. Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode:Science Fare Podcast Feedback FormScience Fare Podcast website 

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode:Science Fare Podcast Feedback FormScience Fare Podcast website Our guests today are engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Catherine (Cat) Sheane. Ayyana is the Failure Analysis and Strategy Lead for the Devices & Services organization at Google. She leads a team of science-y detectives who work to understand why things break and how badly they are breaking, and how our phones and other devices do when people use them in general. The team looks at phones and watches, and other hardware that Google makes, at all stages of development from prototyping to the field.Cat is the VP of Environmental, Social, Governance, and Sustainability at Parsons Corporation.Among her specialties is guiding interdisciplinary teams through climate risk assessments and third-party sustainability certifications for large, complex civil infrastructure projects.  Cat is a passionate sustainability champion with 24 years of experience leading sustainability strategy development, action planning, and execution at the corporate and project levels.In this full-length interview, Ayyana and Cat talk about what led them to become engineers, describe a day in the life as engineers, and reflect on the things that surprise them about their jobs. Highlights of the episode:*Opening quotes by Ayyana and Cat on the things they were interested in as kids that led them to pursue careers in science [0:01];*Susan introduces Ayyana and Cat, engineers at Google and Parsons Corporation, respectively [1:36];     *Ayyana and Cat tell us about their paths to pursuing engineering [4:53];*How Ayyana and Cat decided to pursue graduate degrees and what that was like [11:20];*What a day in the life as an engineer looks like [19:00];*Ayyana and Cat give an example of a time they faced a scientific challenge and how they handled it [28:50];*Connecting Ayyana’s and Cat’s work to what high school students are learning in science [36:00];*Advice for high school students interested in engineering [45:14]

Please click below to fill out the survey for this episode:Science Fare Podcast Feedback FormScience Fare Podcast website Our guests today are engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Catherine (Cat) Sheane. Ayyana is the Failure Analysis and Strategy Lead for the Devices & Services organization at Google. She leads a team of science-y detectives who work to understand why things break and how badly they are breaking, and how our phones and other devices do when people use them in general. The team looks at phones and watches, and other hardware that Google makes, at all stages of development from prototyping to the field.Cat is the VP of Environmental, Social, Governance, and Sustainability at Parsons Corporation.Among her specialties is guiding interdisciplinary teams through climate risk assessments and third-party sustainability certifications for large, complex civil infrastructure projects.  Cat is a passionate sustainability champion with 24 years of experience leading sustainability strategy development, action planning, and execution at the corporate and project levels.In this mini episode, Ayyana and Cat share how their work relates to what a student might learn in high school science class. Ayyana talks about the microstructure of materials, and Cat talks about corrosion.