With graduation season upon us, today’s edition of How on Earth is Part 1 of our annual “Graduation Special”. Our guests in the studio today are scientists and engineers who have or will soon receive their Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in a STEM-related field. They talk about their thesis research, their grad school experiences, and what they have planned next.
Rob Streeter – Electrical Engineering
Topic: High-resolution Deep-tissue Microwave Thermometry
Amanda Hampton – Applied Math
Topic: On the Three-Dimensional, Quadratic Diffeomorphism: Anti-integrability, Attractors, and Chaos
Jacob Kravits
– Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
Topic: Balancing Cost, Water, Emissions, and Reliability in Power Systems Operations
You can listen to Part 2 of this year’s special or all past year Graduation Special episodes.
Host / Producer : Joel Parker
Executive Producer : Shelley Schlender
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Oliver Paine
Diba Mani
John Nardini
Morgan Rehnberg – CU Boulder, 
David Horvath – Colorado School of Mines, 
Joseph Lee – CU Boulder, 
Greg Salvesen – 
Odessa Gomez – 
Good & Bad Calories (starts at 4:50) Ever since the 1970s, the rise of obesity in the United States has an epidemic. Researchers around the world are trying desperately to figure out why so many of us get fat, and what we can do to change that. A large amount of funding, and support from public health policy, goes toward the hypothesis that we get fat because we eat too many calories and do not exercise enough; when someone eats more calories than they need, the instructions go, they should exercise. That’s “Calories in, Calories Out.” But recently, an expert with a different point of view spoke to a packed audience of doctors, staff and medical students at the University of Colorado Medical Center. The expert is 
