Does your voice get tired when you sing? Are you tired of singing in bumper to bumper traffic? Two UAB graduate students could solve some of those problems one day. Because of their research they can lay claim to the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship award, given annually to outstanding graduate students contributing to research, teaching and innovations in science and engineering.
Hear them on our podcast:
This is a very small sample of what we can do with podcasts and blogs together. This isn’t on iTunes, obviously, but we could easily be creating programs for people to download to their iPods, to have their RSS reader retrieve them and to take with them on the go. That’s one of the strengths of the 2.0 world, where everything can be accessible on demand. It is here for journalists when they’re under deadline and it is here for the student about to hike across campus. What’s more, it is always available, on the web for as long as we choose to keep it there, a shining endorsement of the quality of education and research that are available at UAB.
Podcasts can be slickly produced or they can be very informal and casual. Meanwhile, we could use the same setup to distribute actualities to radio stations if there’s still an audience for that. New quotes from these students or pulled quotes from the podcasts, either way it makes us more helpful to the reporter and we become a daily must-visit on his or her newsbeat.
