Happy New Year from all of us at Inspiration Dissemination! It’s been a great year with fantastic guests on our program. We’ll be back on the air January 15th with Joe Donovan, who’s working on his MFA in Creative Writing! Stay tuned and stay inspired!
A word cloud of research descriptions from our guests in 2016
We will not have a show on February 21st, 2016 due to a broadcast of a Women’s Basketball game.
Tune in on February 28th, 2016 to hear a whale of a tale from Fisheries and Wildlife Student, Samara Haver.
We will not have a show on January 17th, 2016 due to the broadcast of OSU Women’s basketball game. Tune in on January 24th as we interview History of Science Ph. D. student, Edwin Wollert.
Happy new year from all of us at Inspiration Dissemination. It’s been an incredible year for us all and we will be back starting Sunday, January 10th, 2016. Stay tuned and stay inspired!
Word cloud summary of all the research from our guests in 2015
Inspiration Dissemination will be off the air for the next two weekends, as Zhian and I will be out of town for various reasons and unable to host. But have no fear! June 7th we return, and will be interviewing Beatrice Moissinac who studies Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS). She describes her work as, “a branch of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning that looks at how a computer can learn to become an expert at a task, and then teach this task to a human using lessons and exercises designed by the computer itself.” Beatrice is working at Technology Across the Curriculum (TAC) at OSU, “to develop Virtual Learning Environments”.
She says her first application is Fire Safety: How do you teach someone how to get out of a building on fire?
She’s probably right to be worried (the rope ladder I keep under my bed is a little dated), and we can’t wait to find out what her research in artificial intelligence has to say about fire safety!
On the show this Sunday at 7pm will be Kristen Finch of the Botany and Plant Pathology Department. Kristen studies the wood chemistry of Douglas Fir and its correlation to genetic relatedness, she will be talking about TIMBER THEFT as well as her journey into forestry science! Tune in to 88.7 KBVR Corvallis to find out more!
Dear Stalwart Supporters of Inspiration Dissemination (and people who are here accidentally)…
Welcome to the new and long overdue Inspiration Dissemination website! Beginning April 26th ID will return to the airwaves from a shiny new studio in the Student Experience Center!
(edit: we had previously hoped to go back on the air on the 19th, but DJ training schedules with the new equipment prohibited this)
For those who have stumbled upon this blog or otherwise don’t know, Inspiration Dissemination is a live radio show hosted by Zhian Kamvar and Matt McConnell on 88.7 FM KBVR. ID allows graduate students at Oregon State to tell their stories, connect with the community, and share their passion and research with Corvallis and the greater Linn-Benton area!
This blog is intended to serve as the main portal to ID related everything. Expect weekly blog entries summarizing the content of episodes, as well as access to archived mp3s of many episodes from the past three years of glorious inspiration!
If you are a graduate student here at Oregon State and you’re interested in coming on the show, please contact us at inspirationdissemination@gmail.com, and of course you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter (@kbvrID), and as always, be sure to tune in Sunday evenings at 7pm to hear about the research and personal journeys of graduate students right here at OSU, live on 88.7 KBVR Corvallis!
– Zhian and Matt