SciFri Radio: Science Careers

SciFri Radio: Student Inventors Dream Up A Better Wheelchair
High school engineering students describe their award-winning invention.

SciFri Radio: Top Students Converge at Mind Summit in Montana
Participants describe the ‘Adventures of the Mind’ student enrichment program.

SciFri Radio: NSF Director Subra Suresh
Ira talks with Subra Suresh, incoming director of the National Science Foundation, about national research priorities.

SciFri Radio: 4-H Science Project
The organization holds its third annual 4-H National Youth Science Day, in which kids around the country studied carbon dioxide.

SciFri Radio: Remembering Stephen Schneider
Climate scientist Stephen Schneider passed away this week at the age of 65. We'll talk about his life and accomplishments.

SciFri Radio: Outstanding High-School Science
Plotting optimal paths for interplanetary spacecraft? We'll talk with a student who excelled in the Intel Science Talent Search, which concluded...

SciFri Radio: No Small Matter
How do you take pictures of objects that are too small to photograph? We'll talk with the authors of an image-heavy book about nanoscience.

SciFri Radio: Weekends at Bellevue
Have you ever wondered what the weekend shift might be like in a major city's psychiatric emergency room?

SciFri Radio: Kids' Science Challenge
We'll talk about the Kids' Science Challenge, a NSF-funded competition that challenges kids to come up with problems that can be solved via science.

SciFri Radio: Testosterone Affects Some Women’s Career Choices
A new study says hormones, not sexism, may be responsible for the gender imbalance in banking.

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