Tyler Renshaw helps schools direct mental-wellness resources
Dr. Tyler Renshaw is an assistant professor in the School Psychology Program at Utah State University. His team screens students to help schools understand how to direct resources.
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What You Should Be Listening To… Instead
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On March 11, 2020, Utah State University took action to keep COVID-19 from spreading. Work on this research podcast started the same day.
Presented by USU’s Office of Research, Instead is a digital bridge to span social-distance, allowing you to listen in on conversations with USU researchers and learn how Utah’s researchers move our state forward as new challenges circle the world.
Social distance is nothing new for the program’s host Wyatt Archer, who grew up in Idaho’s sparsely populated Lost River Valley and moved to Utah for his education in 2013. For more than six years, and while earning a bachelor’s degree in art and a master’s in communication, Wyatt has been buildings bridges between scientists and citizens as the videographer for the Office of Research. Armed with persistence and “stupid questions,” he keeps the conversation light so you can learn while you scrub baseboards, paint walls, walk around the block, or whatever it is you’re doing to stay busy in the quarantine.
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Episodes
Join Wyatt Archer as he learns about Utah & the world through interviewing USU Researchers to find out what’s happening alongside COVID-19. Read a short summary before, during, or after you listen. Learn a little, get informed, and have a good time with us, instead.
Dust. Janice Brahney explains how synthetic materials are driven into a natural phenomenon
Janice Brahney is a researcher in USU's Watershed Sciences department. This webpage is a description of episode 57 of the Instead podcast.
Diana Meter explains how defenders create belonging
Meter points out that most kids are bullied about things that are outside their control, like body shape, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
Peer into the opiate crisis and courses that can help
In this episode of Instead, Maren walks us through a brief timeline of opioid addiction in the United States before sharing some of the alternative pain management methods she and her colleagues bring into communities.
Sagebrushicillin with Undergraduate Researcher David Suisse
The Suisse's are seeking the chemical compound that makes artemisia tridentata an effective antibacterial. This is especially timely research as antibiotic-resistant diseases are on the rise and any new antibacterial on the scene will be helpful.
Spiders and silkworms and hagfish, oh my!
Justin Jones, assistant professor of biology and director of the spider silk lab at USU, has been researching and developing spider silk and its related technologies for nearly 20 years. In this episode of Instead, he tell us why we use silkworm, goats, a...
Engineering buildings for earthquakes with Brady Cox
When an earthquake hits, it changes the frequency of the earth, much as you might when you put your finger on a string to change the note. The goal of the earthquake researcher is to find ways to make new buildings an opposite frequency so that they do no...
The fire cycle; appreciating a fundamental disturbance, with Larissa Yocom
Larissa explains the history of wildfire in the west, helping us understand fire as just another force of nature. Just like storms, we can’t prevent fires from happening. But, mechanical treatments and prescribed burns give us some say in when and how an ...
Immersive Writing Experiences and Cultivating Undergraduate Research
That hands on mentality and a deep commitment to students‘ ability to write well naturally led Dr. Kinkead to undergraduate research, where her impact on USU’s undergraduate research program is indelible.
Setting People Up for Step-Parenthood
In the latest episode of Instead. Dr. Higginbotham leads one of the largest research-based relationship education initiatives in the county with programs for those who are single, dating, married, remarried, and divorced. He discusses building and navigat...
Family Caregivers and Dementia
Dr. Fauth talks us through her research and efforts to provide and communicate resources for caregivers of family members with dementia or other late-life ailments. She reminds us that the health of caregiver and patient are equally important—just as the ...
Celebrating Undergraduate Research at USU
In February 2021, our 45-year dedication to undergraduate research was recognized by the Council on Undergraduate Research as the best in the nation. In this episode of Instead, we give you a sneak peak into why this program is so important to who we are ...
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