HMSC Connects! Podcast

Challenges and Change for Women of Color in Science – A Conversation with Evelynn Hammonds, Chair and Professor of the History of Science

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond.

For our third episode celebrating the Women's Suffrage Centennial this month, Jennifer is speaking with Professor Evelynn Hammonds, Chair of the Department of the History of Science at Harvard. Early in her career as a graduate student in physics at MIT, Professor Hammonds discovered more urgent questions about the lack of women, particularly Women of Color, in scientific disciplines. 

Historic Challenges for Harvard Women of Science with Sara Schechner, David P. Wheatland Curator of the Harvard Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond.

For our second episode celebrating women's suffrage this month, Jennifer is speaking with Sara Schechner, curator of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.  Sara is a historian of science, specializing in material culture and the history of astronomy. She's also an expert in the history of women in science.

 

Sara Schechner's website: https://www.altazimutharts.com/

 

19th Century Women at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology with Reed Gochberg, Harvard Assistant Director of Studies, History and Literature

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For the first episode celebrating Women's Suffrage Month, Jennifer is speaking with Reed Gochberg, the Assistant Director of Studies, History and Literature at Harvard. Her work focuses on 19th-century American culture, the history of science and technology, and museum studies. She is guest curating an exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History on the early history of women working at the Museum of Comparative Zoology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

 

 

Diving with A Purpose - A Conversation with Marine Scientist Dr. Albert Jose Jones

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For the final installment of the HMSC Connects! Ocean Month, Jennifer is speaking with Dr. Albert Jose Jones. He is a marine biologist by trade, a retired professor of Marine Science at the University of the District of Columbia. But the common thread throughout his extraordinary life is scuba diving. This fall, he's giving a virtual talk for HMSC about his work with Diving With A Purpose, a group he helped form of Black scuba divers who locate and document sunken slave ships around the world.

 

 

 

Navigating by Nature – A Conversation with Physicist John Huth

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For our third installment of the HMSC Connects! Ocean Month, Jennifer is speaking with John Huth, an experimental particle physicist at Harvard, and part of the ATLAS experiment about navigating at sea.

 

 

“What Can Sharks Teach Us?” with Marine Biologist Molly Gabler-Smith

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For our second installment of the HMSC Connects! Ocean Month, Jennifer is speaking with Molly Gabler-Smith, a Postdoctoral Fellow in George Lauder's lab at Harvard, where she studies the way sharks move through the water.

Reflections on the Pacific Islands with Museum Curator Ingrid Ahlgren

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. This July, we're focusing on oceans. And to kick off that effort today, she's speaking with Ingrid Ahlgren, the Curator of Oceanic Collections at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology at Harvard.

Food and Status: A Discussion with Historian Joyce Chaplin

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Joyce Chaplin, a Historian of Early America and Early European Colonialism at Harvard. 

Uncovering Earthquakes with Computational Scientist Brendan Meade

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Brendan Meade, a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard. Brendan studies why, where, and when earthquakes happen.

Pondering Distant Suns with Munazza Alam

Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, she is speaking with Munazza Alam, a Ph.D. student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, as well as a National Geographic Young Explorer. She studies the atmospheres of exoplanets by using the light of their suns.