SIO91: Dr. Kate Biberdorf on Science Outreach

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Thomas Smith

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🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Dr. Kate Biberdorf is the brains behind the science outreach program 'Fun with Chemistry!' We talk about the disturbing anti-science attitude prevalent in our society right now and the exciting and laudable work she and others are doing to make science cool again! Check her out at https://www.katethechemist.com or http://www.funwithchem.com! Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support us on Patreon at: patreon.com/seriouspod Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email [email protected]

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0:00.0	You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 91.
0:33.1	I'm your host Thomas Smith.
0:35.0	Today I've got an interview with Dr. Kate Beiberdorf.
0:38.7	She is a lecturer and director of demonstrations
0:41.9	and outreach for the University of Texas at Austin.
0:45.0	She's doing some incredible science outreach.
0:48.0	We've got plenty to talk about so let's get over to it. I'm joined by Dr. Kate Beiberdorf. thanks for telling me the pronunciation of your name.
1:05.0	Thank you.
1:06.0	It does derive from Justin Beber, I think, as everything does.
1:09.6	Exactly.
1:11.0	Thanks for joining me today.
1:12.6	Very, very honored to have you on.
1:14.8	You work with Amy Polar's Smart Girls, which is, I'm going to go ahead and say that makes me
1:20.7	one degree of separation from Amy Polar, so this is already one of the most
1:25.2	successful interviews I've ever had.
1:26.8	So I just for that, so good start.
1:30.4	Can you give listeners a bit of your background and then maybe talk about that Amy Polar Smart Girls program?
1:36.9	Sure, I was originally born in Kalamazoo, Michigan and so I went to a small school, small town school in Kalamazoo. And then I moved to
1:49.6	Ann Arbor where I went to the University of Michigan and I double majored in
1:53.2	chemistry in German and then I moved down to Austin Texas with some horns where I
1:57.8	went to the University of Texas and I got my PhD in Inorganic Chemistry and from there I started working at the
2:05.7	University of Texas as an instructor or a lecturer and basically I teach general chemistry
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