Exposure – 4/6/2019 – NSAI, Snares to Wares & The Sci-Files

Stephanie Stapert, George McNeill, Chelsie Boodoo, and Danny Puentes
April 6, 2019

George is back and ready to talk about music! Exploring various aspects of art, your hosts Stephanie and George, talked to people involved with music and then African sculptures. Later on SciFiles, Chelsie and Danny discuss how light can affect cognition.

Stephanie and George sat down with Dewey Longuski to talk about the new The Nashville Songwriters Association International Chapter in Mid-Michigan. As an aid to songwriters, NSAI works to help musicians from any genre and provide a space for collaborate. NSAI’s last meeting of the semester is Apr. 13 at the MSU Community Music School.

A class at MSU where you can impact the lives of others! Yes that does exist. Snares to Wares a nonprofit is partnered with MSU so students of different majors to participate in a project to prevent poaching by creating an alternate source of income for a community in East Africa. This year, art was the focus. To help support this project go to the RIV on Saturday morning (10 a.m. to 11 a.m.) on Apr. 13. They will also be displaying these magnificent sculptures this summer at the Detroit Zoo starting on May 8.

On The Sci-Files, Chelsie and Danny talk to Joel Soler about his research on light and its affects on the hippocampus, the center of the brain for learning and memory. For more information on this study, check out this article.

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About the Contributors

Stephanie Stapert, Website Manager

Stephanie is a senior majoring in Creative Advertising and Public Relations at Michigan State. At WDBM she is the website manager and the host of "The Final Rose". You can find her singing along to any song, running around doing too much work, commenting on every play at any sporting event or encouraging her friends to do something adventurous. Check out what else she can do on her website!

George McNeill, Station Manager Emeritus

George McNeill (he/him) worked at Impact 89FM from 2018 to 2022, having served as the Station Manager, Operations Manager, and Assistant Program Director (now known as Programming Assistant). He contributed to the station's staff restructuring during the COVID-19 pandemic, renewal of its performance feedback system, and helped put on the GROUPLOVE concert in 2022.

As a volunteer, George contributed to the Entertainment, Street, News, Audio Production, Graphics and Music Review teams, and was...

Chelsie Boodoo, The Sci-Files Host

Chelsie is a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student at Michigan State University. She studies what happens to the extracellular matrix of cells after they have been stressed. She co-hosts "The Sci-Files" with Daniel Puentes. Together they explore the different topics that MSU students research on "The Sci-Files" at WDBM.

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