This week, Danny Greene talks about the research he has been doing for the past two years! Danny's research focuses on the synthesis of air-stable acenes for uses in drug delivery, singlet oxygen detection, and as organic thin film transistors. Danny just gave a poster presentation about his research and where they are currently at with this project. He also is starting new research in the spring where he takes on a more biological approach. Danny is a student at Chatham University where he is studying biochemistry and is about to graduate in the spring where he will continue his studies in a Ph.D. program.

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In this episode, we interview Gary McMurtrie on his recently published paper in the Journal of Addiction Medicine about Racial Disparities in the Treatment of Opioid Addiction. Gary McMurtrie has been researching this subject for 18 months, gathering data from several sources to shed light on some of the issues we are still facing in medicine today to make this world more equitable. Gary graduated from Chatham University in 2020 with his B.A. in Psychology and is currently applying to medical school where he hopes to become a psychiatrist specializing in addiction medicine. Check out the link below to learn more about his paper!!

Link to the information discussed in this podcast:

https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Fulltext/9900/Improving_Research_on_Racial_Disparities_in_Access.106.aspx

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In this episode: The NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). This mission was designed and led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. This was an experiment to determine if scientists could successfully redirect an asteroid that could potentially be on a trajectory for the earth and cause extinction. They chose an asteroid, dimorphous that was orbiting another asteroid "didymos", that is not on earth's trajectory and causes no imminent danger to humans to test if redirection of an asteroid was possible by crashing a satellite into it.

Link to the information discussed in this podcast: https://dart.jhuapl.edu/Mission/index.php

https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/dart

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