Planted: Finding Your Roots in STEM Careers

Episode 5: Navigating multiple opportunities with guests Dr. Murphy Westwood and Trinity Pierce

Sep 27, 2018

Sometimes, does it really come down to trusting your gut? Setting a course within your STEM/plant career can be difficult when you are presented with multiple opportunities, internships or programs to choose between. In this episode of Planted, Dr. Murphy Westwood and Trinity Pierce share their insight on how they...

Episode 6: North Stars: the leaders in your journey with guest Dr. Chelsie Romulo

Sep 27, 2018

Mentors, colleagues and advisers do more than give insight on the journey, they can help shape the path. Follow us on this episode of Planted, as Dr. Chelsea Romulo winds us through her current research into the far corners of the Amazon and discusses mentors and advisers that helped her carve her journey to...

Episode 3: Choosing a direction with guest Ashley Tuffin

Sep 20, 2018

Internships can take you all over the world and provide valuable insight into the career of your dreams. In this episode, Ashley Tuffin, a research assistant at The Morton Arboretum, describes how the internships guided by your interest can shape decisions and directions within your STEM/plant career trajectory.

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Episode 4: Merging interests, more than one passion with guest Dr. Aurélie Jacquet

Sep 20, 2018

Interests guide your path, but what if you have more than one passion? In this episode of Planted, Dr. Aurélie Jacquet, an ethnopharmacologist who studies the uses of medicinal plant extracts to treat Parkinson's disease, talks about how she incorporates her passion for photography within her research. She will share...

Episode 2: Early Steps: first experiences in science with guest Frank Balestri

Sep 13, 2018

Join us on this episode of Planted to learn how early experiences in the natural world can ignite passion for working with plants later in life. Inspired by his experiences with collecting and raising butterflies as a youth, Frank Balestri shares how some of his early experiences, inspired him to consider a path into...