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HMSC Connects! Podcast

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

Episodes

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 abou...

Aug 20, 202036 minEp. 15

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 i...

Aug 12, 202027 minEp. 14

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...

Aug 05, 202022 minEp. 13

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 fal...

Jul 29, 202023 minEp. 12

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.

Jul 22, 202024 minEp. 11

“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.

Jul 15, 202020 minEp. 10

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.

Jul 08, 202023 minEp. 9

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.

Jul 01, 202022 minEp. 8

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.

Jun 24, 202021 minEp. 7

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.

Jun 16, 202022 minEp. 6

Diving Deep for Oceans Week with Peter Girguis

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. To celebrate World Ocean week she is speaking Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard, Peter Girguis.

Jun 09, 202023 minEp. 5

Exploring the Power of Objects with Peabody Museum Steward Diana Zlatanovski

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 Diana Zlatanovski, a collection steward at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Diana works with a collection of 1.2 million objects from cultures around the world, specializing in materials collected from contemporary peoples outside North America.

Jun 03, 202020 minEp. 4

Instruments of Technology & Science with Dave Unger

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 speaking with Dave Unger, Director of Administration and Operations for the Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments, a museum containing a collection of instruments and tools of science collected by Harvard since 1672.

May 27, 202018 minEp. 3

Archaeology of the Ancient World with Adam Aja

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 Adam Aja, Assistant Curator of Collections at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Among his many tasks at the museum, he manages a collection of roughly 40,000 objects.

May 20, 202020 minEp. 2

Andrew Williston and the Museum’s Big Collection of Fishes

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 Andrew Williston, who manages the Museum of Comparative Zoology's Ichthyology collection, an assemblage of one and a half million specimens of preserved fishes.

May 12, 202016 minSeason 1Ep. 1