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This is the ORISE FeatureCast. Join host Michael Holtz for conversations with ORISE experts on STEM workforce development, scientific and technical reviews, and the evaluation of radiation exposure and environmental contamination. You’ll also hear from ORISE research program participants and their mentors as they talk about their experiences and how they are helping shape the future of science. Welcome to the ORISE Featurecast.Copyright 2026 ORISE Featurecast Nature et écologie Politique et gouvernement Science Sciences politiques
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  • A mentor can make or break a student's time: A conversation with Lindsey Perkin, Ph.D., USDA ARS scientist

    A mentor can make or break a student's time: A conversation with Lindsey Perkin, Ph.D., USDA ARS scientist
    Aug 28 2026
    We celebrate mentorship in this episode of the ORISE Featurecast in a conversation with Lindsey Perkin, Ph.D, research molecular biologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Perkins’s unit focuses on insect pests of cotton and other row crops. She says mentors can make or break a student's experience in a lab or other opportunity. It’s important to guide people in the right way, to give them that good experience. If they have a bad experience, that might completely change the trajectory of what they plan to do in their career and they could leave science altogether. Learn more about ORISE opportunities at USDA ARS: https://orise.orau.gov/usda-ars/index.html
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    17 min
  • ORISE Symposium 2026 Preview: James Dewar, Ph.D., says treat every AI prompt like an experiment

    ORISE Symposium 2026 Preview: James Dewar, Ph.D., says treat every AI prompt like an experiment
    Aug 12 2026
    James Dewar, Ph.D., assistant professor of biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, uses Large Language Models (LLMs, a type of generative artificial intelligence) in his research. In a recent article published at nature.com, Dewar writes that to get more from AI researchers should treat every prompt like an experiment. In this episode of the ORISE Featurecast, Dewar talks in more depth about his article and gives a preview of his upcoming ORISE Symposium Seminar on the use of LLMs for science and research. He also discusses and shares some of the tools he has developed to help students and researchers better understand how to use LLMs effectively. For more information and to register for the ORISE Symposium, visit https://orise.orau.gov/news/events/symposium.html Read Dewar’s Nature Careers article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02083-6 Some of the links mentioned in the conversation are listed below: Papers showing AI automating the early stages of drug discovery https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10644-y https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y Paper comparing AI to physicians at clinical reasoning https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4433 Preprint from Dewar on AI use for scientists: https://zenodo.org/records/19177101 Preprint from Dewar on how to teach with AI: https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/t8mea Dewar’s personal website with free tools: https://www.jmdewar.com/ This is the specific meta prompt tool he mentions: https://prompting.jmdewar.com/meta Links not mentioned in the Featurecast but that may be of interest: Dewar’s ORCID and Linkedin: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4153-3818 https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-m-dewar/ Links to the graduate biomedical programs at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/igp/igp-program-overview/ https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/qcb/qcb-program-overview/
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    1 h et 1 min
  • The importance of interdisciplinary research about crayfish: A conversation with Hampton Kennedy

    The importance of interdisciplinary research about crayfish: A conversation with Hampton Kennedy
    Jul 9 2026
    Hampton Kennedy was between jobs when he came across an opportunity for the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service Research Participation Program Fellowship. The fellowship blended history – Hampton is a history teacher – and ecology in that it focused on the history of signal crayfish in Montana. In this episode of the ORISE Featurecast, Hampton talks about the process of investigating the history of signal crayfish. Few studies had been done prior to this project, but determining whether signal crayfish are a native species or were introduced affects how ecologists manage their presence. Hampton found mentions of crayfish in the journals of explorers Lewis and Clark, and thought his work was done, but the reference wasn’t of the creature in question. Hampton and his mentor, Susan Adams, Ph.D., published a paper on their research, which can be found here: https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wat2.70014
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    9 min
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