All Episodes

574 | Don't Look Up: Philosophy and the Study of Climate Change

573 | Building Towards Next-Generation Vaccines for HIV

572 | Aging, HIV Stigma, and Mental Health among Older Adult Across Communities

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #5: Advocating for Fairness

571 | Hereafter and Evermore: Art History, Archaeology, and Cemeteries

570 | Sound in the Round: How the Brain Maps Multiple Lines of Music

569 | Foraging Shin Bones: Studying Tibias Across History

568 | Health Literacy, Patient Activation, and Specific Learning Conditions: The Impact of Health Communication

567 | The Young and the Restless: The Effects of Testosterone on Song Sparrows

566 | More than Meets the Archive: Sustainable Approaches to Preserving Shared Identity and Culture

565 | There and Back Again: Amalie Migrates Home to GradCast

564 | What are Metals Hiding? Zooming in on Corrosion

563 | A 21st century essay towards a real character language

562 | Birds, Fatty Acids, and Isotopes: A Story About Where Fresh and Marine Waters Meet

561 | Popping the Bubble: International Experiences at Western

560 | Confidence, Speaking, and Digital Tools: Supporting Older Adult English Language Learners in Canada

559 | #Feminismo: Feminism and the Digital Hispanosphere

558 | How do we think about cells? There isn't one right way

557 | Minding the Body: How Does Mental Health Correlate With Exercise?

556 | K-Queer Regionality and Digital Affinities: Queer Identity in K-pop’s Transcultural Fandom

Special Episode: 40th Annual Western Research Forum

555 | Marc Lalonde and The Grad Club, the Heart of Grad Life at Western

554 | Culturally Safe Long-term Care: Supporting Seniors with Diverse Cultural Backgrounds

553 | Internationally Educated Nurse (IEN) Beyond Borders: Reality, Resilience, and Research in Canadian Health Care

#BookCast 10 | Special Topics in Calamity Physics

552 | Understanding the Abstract & Each Other: How Mentalizing Shapes the Way we Think

Art or Science #1| Music

551 | Navigating Falls After Stroke: Research Shaped by Community Voices

550 | Where are you From? How Placed-Based Identity Affects Political Behaviour

Thinking with the Earth 4: Where and Why People Move

549 | Caring About Caring

547 | Thinking with the Earth 3: Rooted in Community

546 | Thinking with the Earth 2: The Water We Don’t See

548 | It's All About Carbon and Football

545 | Ungetable: Exploring How English as a Second Language Speakers Navigate Derivatives

544 | Chick-a-Dee-Coding the Accents of Birds

543 | Thinking With the Earth 1: Flight Paths Toward Sustainability

542 | #Inspiring Minds 16: Optical Payload in Western Skylark CubeSat to Demonstrate the Future of Space Communication

541 | The Math Behind Viruses

540 | Demystifying Job Hunting Through Peer Advising

539 | #Inspiring Minds 15: Inside Speech Development, Altered Auditory Feedback, and Growing Voices

538 | Studying Shape: From Human Histories to Earth Processes

537 | Zola, but Make it Funny: The Comedies You Missed

536 | How Kids Process Stories and Sharing our (Scientific) Stories with the World

535 | #Inspiring Minds 14: “One-Size-Fits-All” Myth: Concussions are Different in Male and Female Brains

534 | Midwives on the Frontline of Maternal Mental Health Care

533 | #Inspiring Minds 13: Accessibility by Design: Musical Instruments in Student Hands

532 | Taking a Close Look at Protein Oxidation Using Mass Spectrometry

531 | #Inspiring Minds 12: Walking to the Beat: Music, Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, and Parkinson’s

530 | Changing Minds: Improving Hiring Practices with Growth Mindset Messaging

529 | #Inspiring Minds 11: We Were Saying This All Along: Person-Centered Long Term Care and Small Homes

#BookCast 9 | People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks

528 | #InspiringMinds 10: Caravaggio with a Cellphone: Merging Tradition With Digital Identity

527 | STEM Teacher Retention and our Sense of Belonging in Education

526 | #InspiringMinds 9: Relations, Not Relationships: Values, Algorithms, and Dating Platforms

525 | #InspiringMinds 8: Challenges to LGBTQIA+ Rights in Education:

523 | A Pocket Guide to Trans Inclusivity through Art and Activism

Halloween Special | Publish or Perish

524 | Can We Treat Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy with Nonsense Suppressor tRNA?

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #4: Writing and Learning Support for Grad Students

#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President student services (Saghar Soltanabadi)

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #3: The Hidden Curriculum, Navigating the Ins and Outs of Grad School

#TheScoopOnSOGS | Board Chair (Kirsty Ng)

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #2: Time Management for Graduate Students

#TheScoopOnSOGS | Vice-President Academic (Anthony Cruz)

Thrive, Don’t Just Survive #1: Sustaining Motivation in Graduate School

522 | #InspiringMinds 7: Residential Decarbonization using Solar Photovoltaics

521 | Matrices All The Way Down: The Limits of Large Language Models

520 | Archaeological Insights into Infant Feeding in Colonial Quebec

519 | Mind the Gait: Walking the Internal Talk

518 | Press to start: Mind over muscle

517 | Theater Kid to Brain Nerd: The Connection Between Music & Memory

516 | How are your Knees? Understanding Injury-induced Osteoarthritis

515 | The Price of Precision: Are Surgical Robots Worth It?

514 | I'm an Adult Now: Supporting Young Adults With a Rare Disease

513 | It's Just Me and Millions of Tax Records

512 | Reaching, Grasping, and Research Abroad

511 | Mapping It Out: The Cerebellum in Action

510 | Music and Math? You don't know the half of it!

509 | The Pursuit of Science: Implanted Materials and the Human Body

508 | AI; or, Another Modern Prometheus.

507 | Teen Spirit: Growing Up in 1950s Windsor

506 | Environmentally-Conscious Music

505 | Aging Actively

504 | The Chicken Trials

Chairs Chat 2

503 | Owning your future: Transferring skills from academia to the job market

Special Episode: 39th Annual Western Research Forum

502 | You'd Better Be Done!

#GlobalGrads Redux: Policy and Practice

501 | #InspiringMinds: Fit or Fixated? Unpacking Emerging Fitness Ideals and the Role of Disordered Eating

500 | Big Brain Energy

499 | Third Time's a Charm: Exploring Representations of, and Attitudes Towards, Snakes

#BookCast 8 | The Secret History by Donna Tart

#GlobalGrads Redux New Horizons: From Nepal to Western: Deepmala Rana Bhat's Journey as an International Student and Advocate for SOGS

498 | #InspiringMinds 4: Development of Parasports in Ghana

497 | Am I Pronouncing This Correctly? Reading, Context, and Word Recognition

496 | A Bone by Any Other Name: Refining the Science of Anthropological Investigations Using CT Scans

495 | Algorithms, Hate Engagement, and the Digital Divide

494 | Advancing Ultrasound Imaging: Speed, Accuracy, and Biomedical Innovation