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, 2020•36 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•27 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•22 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•23 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•24 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•20 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•23 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•22 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•21 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•22 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•23 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•20 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•18 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•20 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast 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, 2020•16 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast 
