EAST LANSING—The International Day of Women and Girls in Science falls every year on Feb. 11. This year, the topic revolves around women scientists who have been instrumental in slowing the spread of COVID-19.  In accordance with this year’s theme, The Sci-Files, Impact 89FM’s premiere STEM-based podcast, has compiled a list to commemorate all of the women in science who have been interviewed since the inception of the podcast. In total, 83 women have been interviewed about topics ranging from effective allyship to turning pollution into biofuels. Their interviews, along with the podcast episodes, can be found below:

(Ordered from most recent to oldest):

• 01/31/2021 – Shelby Dechow – Tuberculosis Genetics and pH-adaptation
• 01/24/2021 – Brijen, Liang and Maddie – Wastewater Could Predict the Increase in SARS-CoV-2 Cases
• 01/17/2021 – Kelsey Merreck Wagner – Elephantine in the Anthropocene 
• 11/29/2020 – Lexi Singstock – How Mast Cells May Help Regulate Emotions in Mice
• 11/15/2020 – Marissa and Emily – The Use of Electric and Magnetic Stimulation in the Treatment of Depression 
• 11/01/2020 – Emily Mensch – Novel Invasive Species Management of the Sea Lamprey
• 10/25/2020 – Samantha Finkbeiner – Training a Neural Network to Track Fear Reactivity in Human Infants
• 09/27/2020 – Kati Ford – Turning Pollution Into Biofuels
• 09/13/2020 – Katie Mitchell – Keeping Compassion in Virtual Medicine
• 09/06/2020 – Aalayna Green – Gender Roles in Wildlife Crime
• 08/30/2020 – Carolyn Kroger – Psychology of Spacetime
• 08/23/2020 – Anna Raschke – PFAS in the Watershed
• 08/16/2020 – Lin Liu – Globally Modeling Crops for Sustainability
• 08/02/2020 – Kaelyn Sanders – School Gun Violence
• 08/02/2020 – Lauren Jernstadt – Telecontraception
• 07/26/2020 – Abdulrahman, Erin and Kaylie – Does Sleep Strengthen Unintentional Memories?
• 07/26/2020 – Paige Cordts – The Reality of Traveling with a Disability
• 07/19/2020 – Lauren Collier-Spruel – Effective Allyship
• 07/19/2020 – Jenna Walters – Blueberry Pollination with Bees
• 07/05/2020 – Kathleen Rhoades – Perfecting Michigan Tart Cherries
• 07/05/2020 – Harnoor Kaur – Transgender Homicides in the Media
• 06/28/2020 – Leigh Anne Tiffany – Expansive Science Reporting
• 06/21/2020 – Amber, Kelly, Micayla – Talking with Skeletons
• 06/07/2020 – Megan Miller – Can Spirituality Help With Pain?
• 05/17/2020 – Brittany, Christian and Basma – Youth Opioid Awareness Program
• 05/10/2020 – Bridget Walker – Red Panda Thyroid Testing
• 04/26/2020 – Zoe Hansen – Bacterial Infections and the Gut
• 04/19/2020 – Victoria Toomajian – Extracellular Vesicle Communication and the Heart
• 04/12/2020 – Kaitlyn Daza – Genetics and the Swine Industry
• 04/05/2020 – Funmi Ayeni – Community Interventions for Sexual Assault
• 03/01/2020 – Adrianna Davidson, Murphy Swartz, and Kim Hernandez – Jaali the Baby Black Rhino
• 03/23/2020 – Courtney Harrison – Lake Whitefish Infectious Diseases
• 02/23/2020 – Lauren, Natalie, Arienne – Coronavirus
• 01/12/2020 – Dee Jordan – African Sleeping Sickness
• 12/15/2019 – Alyssa Logan – Horse Bone Health
• 12/01/2019 – Tracy Melvin – Climate Change in Alaska
• 11/24/2019 – Jeremy, Ally and Ben – Irrigation Systems    
• 11/10/2019 – Bethany Myers, Sumana Prabhakar, Ashleigh Shoemaker, Dr. Julie Strachota, Dr. Carleton, – Doppsee the Pregnant Black Rhino at Potter Park Zoo
• 10/27/2019 – Lili Gloe – Anxiety and the Brain
• 10/21/2019 – Rachel Domagalski – Math Networks
• 10/13/2019 – Dianna Cowern – Physics Girl
• 10/06/2019 – Kaitlyn Casulli – Salmonella and Dry Roasting Peanuts
• 09/22/2019- Nguyen Truong- Type 1 Diabetes Inflammation
• 09/15/2019- Vanessa García Polanco – Immigrant Refugees & the Food System
• 09/01/2019- Lauren Cooper – Intersection of Forest, Climate and People
• 08/25/2019 – Tatiana Bustos – Health Services in Underserved Communities
• 08/25/2019 – Kayla, Justin, Jon – Prenatal Infection Affecting Pregnancy
• 08/18/2019 – Diondra Straiton – Parent Training for Autism
• 08/18/2019 – Jaimie Strickland and Matt Kuhn – Cow Immunity and Nutrition
• 08/11/2019 – Vanessa, Mary, Greg and Emma – Per-and Poly-fluoroalkyl Substances (PFASs) in Water and Mentoring
• 07/28/2019 – Anastasiya Lavell and Cameron De La Mora – Mentoring and Chloroplast Lipid Biosynthesis
• 07/14/2019 – Connie Rojas – Spotted Hyena Microbiomes
• 07/14/2019 – Nikki McClaran – Perception of Health and Environmental Issues
• 06/30/2019 – Huiyun and Natalie – Mentoring and the One Health Challenge
• 06/2/2019 – Courtney, Katie and Michael – Mentoring and Entomology
• 06/2/2019 – Courtney Larson – Aquatic Entomology
• 05/19/2019 – Faryal and Kate – Mentoring and MRI Protein Engineering
• 05/12/2019 – Chelsea Weiskerger – Quality of the Great Lakes Beaches
• 05/05/2019 – Sara Ayoub – Separator for Capture Reactions (SECAR)
• 04/14/2019 – Claire Hoffmann – African Carnivores and Human Conflict
• 03/31/2019 – Kathryn Wierenga – Silica and Lupus
• 03/17/2019 – Jennifer Watts – Zika

Gallery • 11 Photos

Kelsey Merreck Wagner greets an elephant

More information about this year’s list of events for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science can be found here.