Tag: megan dillon
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The Academic Minute for 2025.07.21-2025.07.25
Monday Patrick Shober – Paris Obersavtory The Case of the Missing Meteorites Patrick Shober is a planetary scientist who investigates small solar-system bodies—from asteroids and comets to the spectacular fireballs their debris creates in Earth’s atmosphere. He earned his PhD at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, where he worked with the Desert Fireball Network to…
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Megan Dillon, North Carolina State University – The Dogs of Chornobyl
We think we know what causes mutations in dogs at Chornobyl, right? Megan Dillon, PhD graduate from the Genetics program at North Carolina State University, says that might not be the case. Megan is a recent PhD graduate from the Genetics program at North Carolina State University. Her dissertation work focused on the free-breeding dogs…
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This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.07.21)
This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.07.21 Monday Patrick Shober, postdoctoral fellow at the Paris Observatory and NASA’s Johnson Space Center, watches the skies for answers to the case of the missing meteorites. Tuesday Antonin Affholder, post-doctoral researcher at the University of Arizona, discusses whether there could be life on Titan. Wednesday…