Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond

We asked Princeton undergraduates to send us the names of their favorite teacher's assistants — and they answered. Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond interviewed three STEM TAs: Chemical and Biological Engineering (CBE) PhD candidate Jessica Jin, COS Master's Student Rish Raghu, and Math Undergraduate Ben Zenker '24. They explain the demands of their job and how they balance the research and studies on top of it all. Listen in.

This episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond (B cubed) was produced under the 147th board of the Prince in partnership with the Insights newsletter.

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Senna Aldoubosh, Noelle Kim, and Lina Kim

Edited and Sound Engineered by Senna Aldoubosh and Noelle Kim

Transcript by Noelle Kim

Produced by Senna Aldoubosh

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In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, Senna Aldoubosh and Noelle Kim sit down with Josh Leeman, a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Josh discusses his interest in applying technologies from condensed matter theory to quantum computing applications, how doing research remotely during the pandemic gave him insight on his research interests, and valuable advice for students when making their future plans.

This episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond (B cubed) was produced under the 147th board of the Prince in partnership with the Insights newsletter.

For more information about the Schoop Lab and Josh's research, feel free to visit the pages linked below.

RESOURCES

https://schoop.princeton.edu/
https://jleeman.com/

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Noelle Kim

Edited and Sound Engineered by Noelle Kim

Transcript by Noelle Kim

Produced by Senna Aldoubosh

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In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, Senna Aldoubosh and Ketevan Shavdia sit down with Alexander E. Downie, a final year graduate student in the Graham lab, to learn more about his upcoming dissertation. Alec discusses his research with rewilded lab mice, a recent New Yorker article featuring the Graham lab, and advice for students pursuing grad school.

This episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond (B cubed) was produced under the 147th board of the Prince in partnership with the Insights newsletter.

For more information about the Graham Lab, as well as the New Yorker article, feel free to visit the pages linked below.

RESOURCES

http://algraham.princeton.edu/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/the-case-for-free-range-lab-mice

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Ketevan Shavdia

Edited and Sound Engineered by Senna Aldoubosh

Transcript by Oyshee Lahiry

Produced by Senna Aldoubosh

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In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, Senna Aldoubosh and Lina Kim sit down with Dr. Pedro Paredes, a professor and researcher in the Computer Science Department to learn more about his research with theoretical computer science. Aside from discussing his work, Dr. Paredes delves into what sparked his interest in the topic, and even includes a puzzle for listeners.

This episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond (B cubed) was produced under the 147th board of the Prince in partnership with the Insights newsletter.

For more information about Dr. Paredes and his research, feel free to visit the page linked below.

RESOURCES

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~pparedes/

CREDITS

Written and Hosted by Senna Aldoubosh and Lina Kim

Edited and Sound Engineered by Lina Kim

Transcript by Eden Teshome

Produced by Senna Aldoubosh

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In this episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond, Thiago Tarraf Varella sits down with Princeton researcher Dr. Jamey R. Szalay to discuss the science behind Jupiter's auroras. Dr. Szalay also discusses exciting breakthroughs being madeby the Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) in learning about Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.

This episode of Brains, Black Holes, and Beyond (B Cubed) was produced under the 146th managing board of the Prince in partnership with the Insights newsletter.

For more information about Dr. Szalay's research, feel free to check out his paper as well as the Insights article review linked below.

RESOURCES

Szalay, J. R., et al. (2022). Water-group pickup ions from Europa-genic neutrals orbiting Jupiter. Geophysical Research Letters, 49. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL098111

https://insights.princeton.edu/2022/03/protons-jupiter/

CREDITS

Written and hosted by Thiago Tarraf Varella
Edited and Sound Engineered by Senna Aldoubosh
Transcript by Ketevan Shavdia
Produced by Senna Aldoubosh

For more from The Daily Princetonian, visit dailyprincetonian.com. For more from Princeton Insights visit insights.princeton.edu. Please direct all corrections to corrections[at]dailyprincetonian.com.

Correction: A previous version of this description referred to the “Stellar Reference Unit” instead of the “Jovian Auroral Distributions Experiment (JADE) plasma instrument.” The 'Prince' regrets this error.