WEBVTT 1 00:00:11.010 --> 00:00:11.550 Michelle Eckert: we're ready. 2 00:00:18.510 --> 00:00:20.550 Grayson Oreilly : For presenters we can do the same rules as. 3 00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:23.100 Michelle Eckert: we're recording and we have started. 4 00:00:24.270 --> 00:00:27.480 Grayson Oreilly : Great if we can keep mics muted, while. 5 00:00:29.460 --> 00:00:31.650 Grayson Oreilly : we're not speaking i'll do the same. 6 00:00:40.890 --> 00:00:43.200 Grayson Oreilly : Now we wait for the masses to flood in. 7 00:01:15.930 --> 00:01:17.070 Michelle Eckert: We can go ahead and get started. 8 00:01:22.350 --> 00:01:27.240 Grayson Oreilly : In terms of getting doing our welcomes and starting the the panel. 9 00:01:27.990 --> 00:01:30.090 Michelle Eckert: Grad con is ready to roll. 10 00:01:31.470 --> 00:01:36.360 Grayson Oreilly : do want to wait for any other audience Members to show up or you just want to get going, Michelle. 11 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:40.410 Michelle Eckert: i'd say it's past noon let's do this. 12 00:01:42.210 --> 00:01:52.830 Grayson Oreilly : Sure thing, well, I have here to say, welcome to everybody, thank you for joining us today for Grad con our live virtual event. 13 00:01:53.910 --> 00:02:02.160 Grayson Oreilly : Grad con is our annual graduate conference here at the University of Montana, we switch slides here. 14 00:02:04.260 --> 00:02:15.720 Grayson Oreilly : We have five categories, including science, technology engineering mathematics and as the oral and poster we have social sciences and humanities at the world poster in the visual and performing arts. 15 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.580 Grayson Oreilly : These categories all have wonderful submissions where you can view them at the link. 16 00:02:21.210 --> 00:02:30.690 Grayson Oreilly : right there on your screen will also appear in chat and you can go on there and check out all of our submissions as well as our winners, that will be announced at the end of this event. 17 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:38.940 Grayson Oreilly : i'd like to invite Scott Wittenberg the Vice President for research and creative scholarship and the dean of the Grad school to say a few words before we get to the panel. 18 00:02:40.020 --> 00:02:42.660 Scott Whittenburg: You know I want to welcome you all to Grad calm. 19 00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:46.200 Scott Whittenburg: As you may know, this is our 20th anniversary for this event. 20 00:02:46.920 --> 00:02:54.840 Scott Whittenburg: used to be when I first started here that the Faculty were in charge of RAD con and then for a short time the Grad school RAD RAD con but. 21 00:02:55.140 --> 00:03:02.610 Scott Whittenburg: About four or five years ago, the Grad students asked if they could run the event, and all I can say it gets bigger and better every year. 22 00:03:02.880 --> 00:03:16.230 Scott Whittenburg: With GPS say helping put this a bit of time, so I want to thank you all, we have about 74 over 74 submissions this year, which I think is a really great number from a variety of disciplines across campus so welcome. 23 00:03:19.740 --> 00:03:21.090 Grayson Oreilly : Thank you so much Scott. 24 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:31.110 Grayson Oreilly : we're going to move into the next section of our our live virtual event today with the confluence panel we're welcoming let me switch slides here, so we can see. 25 00:03:32.220 --> 00:03:42.720 Grayson Oreilly : we're obeying Ashby ken's Charlie bolt and Jordan unger to do a short panel, followed by a q&a and discussion as a few ground rules. 26 00:03:43.380 --> 00:03:52.230 Grayson Oreilly : Please keep microphones muted during this event, please hold questions until the end or submit them via the panel or the Q amp a icon. 27 00:03:52.500 --> 00:04:01.950 Grayson Oreilly : At the bottom, if you have more general questions about the event or about presentations or anything or you'd like to start a discussion, please place to those in the regular chat. 28 00:04:02.490 --> 00:04:13.050 Grayson Oreilly : So i'm going to stop sharing my screen and hand it over to Ashby ken's Charlie bolt and Jordan unger to introduce themselves and move forward with the panel. 29 00:04:18.840 --> 00:04:27.150 Ashby Kinch : hi good afternoon thanks for joining us, I see there's about 40 of you have logged in it's fantastic it's good to see attendance at this event. 30 00:04:28.290 --> 00:04:37.440 Ashby Kinch : You know, having been involved with the ground con event, a number of different ways, first as a faculty Member who supported my students, you know as as. 31 00:04:37.860 --> 00:04:44.730 Ashby Kinch : i'm in the English department and i've had my ma let students do presentations but just to watch just to echo what Scott said to watch. 32 00:04:45.030 --> 00:04:56.010 Ashby Kinch : How its evolved, especially under graduate student leadership and guidance has been really great every year there's been a new twist or a new wrinkle that the Executive Committee has come up with to really keep the conference vital and. 33 00:04:56.460 --> 00:04:59.850 Ashby Kinch : You know, under coven conditions, the way they pivoted with michelle's helped. 34 00:05:00.360 --> 00:05:09.690 Ashby Kinch : To and Wendy Walker in the library to pull off this virtual conference it's just really impressive, so thank you for having me and i'm going to apologize, at the outset for not being hank green. 35 00:05:10.590 --> 00:05:20.940 Ashby Kinch : He was on we were hoping to get him as one of the keynote speakers and I know i'm sorry substitute for him, but i'm i'm really pleased to be able to talk a little bit about. 36 00:05:21.420 --> 00:05:25.770 Ashby Kinch : confluence which i'm going to talk just at the beginning i'm going to talk a little bit about. 37 00:05:26.100 --> 00:05:35.610 Ashby Kinch : Our website of the Grad school and ideas that underlie it and why we use that term components and what that branding effort is all about, and then pivot to talk about the podcast which. 38 00:05:36.330 --> 00:05:46.620 Ashby Kinch : we're very, very proud of, and it wouldn't be possible without Grad student Labor and creativity and tech technical skill and ideas and so. 39 00:05:47.310 --> 00:05:58.560 Ashby Kinch : i'll give some time you know, then for Charlie and Jordan, to talk about their experience working on the show so yeah so just as a first i'm going to share my screen here and show. 40 00:06:00.510 --> 00:06:03.210 Ashby Kinch : Up excuse me, I already made a mistake hold on one second. 41 00:06:06.690 --> 00:06:16.050 Ashby Kinch : i'm going to show the screen here hope you all can see, this is the main graduate school web website, but really what's important is for you to kind of see what it used to look like. 42 00:06:16.470 --> 00:06:25.980 Ashby Kinch : Most of the website kind of looked like this it was text centered when when I took over associate Dean about three and a half years ago, we thought it was really important. 43 00:06:26.400 --> 00:06:35.670 Ashby Kinch : To do better job of telling the story of graduate education at the University of Montana by every metric the Grad school was and continues to be. 44 00:06:35.940 --> 00:06:47.460 Ashby Kinch : An amazing productive Center of research teaching and creative and innovative of activity of all kinds, including both the Faculty that teaching it and and the. 45 00:06:48.180 --> 00:07:00.630 Ashby Kinch : And the students so we're very proud of it, but we weren't, we are not telling that story as powerfully as as we should be So the first thing we did was to try to revamp the website and have it be a little bit more external facing. 46 00:07:01.650 --> 00:07:07.350 Ashby Kinch : This is the main page, and you know we've we've tried to bring a little bit more visuals up. 47 00:07:08.100 --> 00:07:16.200 Ashby Kinch : to it, but the real and we continue to add to it if you've been to it recently, you will you'll see we put this professional development tab in and we're trying to sort of talent. 48 00:07:16.770 --> 00:07:29.580 Ashby Kinch : opportunities that you can explore as a graduate student so we're trying to make the the website itself a kind of vehicle for telling a richer and more engaging story for why graduate education is so important. 49 00:07:29.970 --> 00:07:36.660 Ashby Kinch : And in sort of thinking that through and talking about it among stakeholders, you know I hit upon this idea of confluence. 50 00:07:38.010 --> 00:07:49.710 Ashby Kinch : Because we see the Grad school as maybe the only entity on campus, in fact, where all of the great missionary streams of the university flow, so the research mission, the teaching mission. 51 00:07:50.400 --> 00:07:58.920 Ashby Kinch : The creativity mission, the innovation mission everything that we do the public service mission, the professional development and professionalization of the state. 52 00:07:59.520 --> 00:08:10.230 Ashby Kinch : All of those ideas flow through the Grad school and we felt like that metaphor of the confluence captured really well this idea that that graduate education is essential to a major. 53 00:08:10.680 --> 00:08:14.670 Ashby Kinch : Research university and that we needed to be able to tell that story so. 54 00:08:15.210 --> 00:08:23.100 Ashby Kinch : We called it telling our story because we knew that confluence itself wouldn't necessarily resonate to new students who were exploring the website so. 55 00:08:23.580 --> 00:08:31.050 Ashby Kinch : The tab we call telling our story and here's what it looks like when you come to it, and I hope you all have visited the site i'm just going to talk a little bit about. 56 00:08:31.650 --> 00:08:41.400 Ashby Kinch : Some of the other things that are on there before we get to the podcast and because it's important it was conceived from the outset as being a multimedia site, we wanted to. 57 00:08:41.910 --> 00:08:53.430 Ashby Kinch : generate some videos and so, if you go into under video insights you'll see videos that we have produced ourselves from the graduate school using a team of producers. 58 00:08:54.030 --> 00:09:05.220 Ashby Kinch : you'll also see, and some of them focus on individual programs, these are recent videos we've added we are constantly looking for programs to partner with to build these little short videos. 59 00:09:06.120 --> 00:09:14.820 Ashby Kinch : But we've also produce some ones that we're really proud of this is about voices from the Western Region, and these are graduate students that come to us from other Western states. 60 00:09:15.960 --> 00:09:24.450 Ashby Kinch : This is about the interdisciplinary PhD this wonderful short kind of short documentary about the UN philosophy society which. 61 00:09:24.930 --> 00:09:34.710 Ashby Kinch : All of these videos across the the grisly video as well, they hit on a kind of area that's really important to the graduate school, which is interdisciplinary research, what are the ways in which. 62 00:09:35.670 --> 00:09:49.440 Ashby Kinch : graduate students connect across programs, and what kinds of ideas are best explored through a multi disciplinary or entered interdisciplinary approach, so the videos kind of fall in those categories program promotion. 63 00:09:50.490 --> 00:09:54.270 Ashby Kinch : videos sort of looking across the campus and big ideas that we. 64 00:09:54.630 --> 00:10:05.640 Ashby Kinch : That our graduate programs are graduate students engage with and then native students we've produced quite a few videos focusing on our our native students so that's a fun place to explore, of course, if. 65 00:10:06.300 --> 00:10:13.500 Ashby Kinch : The other thing for graduate student audience is this graduate student produced videos which is brand new we've only had it up for about a month now. 66 00:10:14.100 --> 00:10:18.600 Ashby Kinch : and includes videos that have been produced as part of courses that we sponsor so. 67 00:10:19.140 --> 00:10:29.520 Ashby Kinch : We have now offered twice in the graduate school an interdisciplinary documentary film production course and a lot of these videos and there's going to be some more coming out soon. 68 00:10:30.420 --> 00:10:39.780 Ashby Kinch : Are in that category, but also former graduates or current students who have worked with outside video production groups in this fungus among us would be example of that. 69 00:10:40.110 --> 00:10:47.490 Ashby Kinch : So this is a space where we're trying to highlight ways in which we can kind of communicate some of the cool and interesting things are graduate students do. 70 00:10:48.360 --> 00:10:58.710 Ashby Kinch : In a video meeting medium, but all along, I knew that I, you know as associate Dean, I wanted to sort of think about ways to start building out new content. 71 00:10:59.220 --> 00:11:07.530 Ashby Kinch : And so the idea of the podcast really came from the fact that, in addition to being associate Dean i'm also director of the you impress and, as we all know. 72 00:11:08.340 --> 00:11:19.290 Ashby Kinch : presses are under stress their books are hard to sell these days they have been for quite some time and I began thinking a while back actually about ways in which. 73 00:11:19.770 --> 00:11:33.900 Ashby Kinch : A press in his in his older forms was actually just a mechanism for disseminating big ideas, especially university presses, so I did a bunch of research on the history of the University of Montana press and found out that in the 20s we were the only. 74 00:11:34.410 --> 00:11:41.310 Ashby Kinch : Working press in the entire state of Montana, so we are producing books that were really playing an important role in influencing. 75 00:11:42.030 --> 00:11:51.270 Ashby Kinch : The way montanans experienced the research going on at the university and, of course, things have evolved since then, but I began thinking, maybe a podcast is like. 76 00:11:51.690 --> 00:12:02.550 Ashby Kinch : A book in that sense that it can be it can play some of that role of disseminating great research ideas and, especially, doing so in a non commercial format, in other words, thinking about. 77 00:12:03.090 --> 00:12:07.920 Ashby Kinch : Not being under the pressures that say a content producer in the private sphere would be. 78 00:12:08.550 --> 00:12:20.280 Ashby Kinch : to sell products right so there's no advertisements on confluence, as you will notice we've i've written a few joke advertisements which I may thread into you guys can give me some feedback today about them, but um. 79 00:12:21.300 --> 00:12:26.400 Ashby Kinch : y'all can say you know whether you think it's a dumb idea or not, but you know sponsored by the nine Muses, for example. 80 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:32.640 Ashby Kinch : So I wrote a piece about this on the you impress blog about podcasts. 81 00:12:33.300 --> 00:12:40.620 Ashby Kinch : And as you can see from the banner image, it is about you know it's grounded in my senses a medieval literate historian. 82 00:12:41.010 --> 00:12:48.510 Ashby Kinch : about the ways in which knowledge had been disseminated historically and and thinking a little bit about what a what an oral medium. 83 00:12:48.900 --> 00:12:54.960 Ashby Kinch : Does, especially in relationship to a book, so this image here shows a teacher and a 12th century university. 84 00:12:55.380 --> 00:13:04.350 Ashby Kinch : lecturing from a book and engaged in what this class is called disputed to so, as you know, as as a professor and as an intellectual historian. 85 00:13:04.650 --> 00:13:12.720 Ashby Kinch : I really believe deeply in this grounding ethos of universities, having discursive spaces, where we exchange ideas. 86 00:13:12.990 --> 00:13:22.560 Ashby Kinch : And so anyone is a faculty Member anyone who's worked in a lab knows, this is the day in, day out work of a great university it happens in these conversations that people have. 87 00:13:22.890 --> 00:13:29.610 Ashby Kinch : about big ideas so all the time, I mean you know, every week i'm having email exchanges these these days, rather than conversations. 88 00:13:29.940 --> 00:13:41.580 Ashby Kinch : with colleagues of mine in computer science or in physics or chemistry about big ideas about things that drive a great research university, so I wanted to capture some of that in the podcast and that was the original. 89 00:13:42.060 --> 00:13:50.040 Ashby Kinch : sort of impetus behind developing confluence so as it evolved, of course, you know I knew quickly that I didn't have the skills, I needed. 90 00:13:51.270 --> 00:13:59.010 Ashby Kinch : To to actually produce the podcast I like talking like that conversations and I knew I could do something in terms of galvanizing faculty members. 91 00:13:59.430 --> 00:14:13.980 Ashby Kinch : to sit down with me, but I didn't know, the first thing about recording or shaping those conversations and I certainly hadn't thought hard about just how difficult podcasts are to produce so a couple of years back, I I hired. 92 00:14:14.460 --> 00:14:22.980 Ashby Kinch : A journalism student maxing spire some of you may know her she's done some work on npr and she did some of the first recording and it kind of helped me. 93 00:14:23.670 --> 00:14:30.930 Ashby Kinch : conceptualize the podcast and kind of think through what it might be and what it might help might be structured and so. 94 00:14:31.350 --> 00:14:37.650 Ashby Kinch : it's gone through several iterations and right from the very beginning, we knew that we wanted both some combination of. 95 00:14:38.070 --> 00:14:45.150 Ashby Kinch : faculty voices talking about research in and talking about how important that was to graduate education, in other words. 96 00:14:45.360 --> 00:14:53.730 Ashby Kinch : engaging with graduate students getting them involved in their own research but also pushing them to do their own independent research we sort of saw that as as core. 97 00:14:54.090 --> 00:15:05.400 Ashby Kinch : But we also wanted to hear from faculty their research journeys and how they came to become research professors, because we thought, not just in terms of the interface with the public, but also in terms of. 98 00:15:06.240 --> 00:15:12.180 Ashby Kinch : showing the kind of inner function of a great university it's made up of all these great stories of people. 99 00:15:12.420 --> 00:15:28.230 Ashby Kinch : who had a great change in their life or had a great discovery or moment of Epiphany that drove their research forward so each episode with the Faculty we try to find that little nugget that little thing where they're speaking in their own voice to talk about their journeys. 100 00:15:29.520 --> 00:15:38.640 Ashby Kinch : Another element of it that we sort of discovered along the way, was, you know as an English Professor I really believe deeply that we need to be talking across boundaries. 101 00:15:38.970 --> 00:15:43.380 Ashby Kinch : And I think poetry and fiction, is a great space to do that because. 102 00:15:43.650 --> 00:15:50.880 Ashby Kinch : As i've asked this question to faculty members hey you know we've got the show it's about rivers and rivers flowing together i've given them an assignment, you know. 103 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:56.400 Ashby Kinch : I have a couple of passages that I think will be great for you, but if you come up with one yourself we'd love to hear it. 104 00:15:56.850 --> 00:16:02.280 Ashby Kinch : And that's become a real Center of the tone of the show because it allows us to put on display. 105 00:16:02.760 --> 00:16:10.770 Ashby Kinch : The intellectual flexibility and the cultural knowledge in that, and you know we've had some great moments spring out of those literary passages in discussion. 106 00:16:11.730 --> 00:16:18.600 Ashby Kinch : In john quandary I john quandary episode which i'm quite fond on that just came up recently, you know, had a lot of these elements of it, in fact. 107 00:16:18.840 --> 00:16:28.020 Ashby Kinch : there's some stuff we didn't end up in the full episode that's really fun and where we get to talking about poetry and music and the things that inspire us and we ended up editing it out, but. 108 00:16:28.470 --> 00:16:36.510 Ashby Kinch : You can feel the energy in those conversations really jump up, and I think the Kelly Dixon episode is another example where I picked the river. 109 00:16:37.020 --> 00:16:46.440 Ashby Kinch : The langston Hughes poem i've known rivers and she didn't know it, she just showed up in there, it was and her eyes lit up when she read it, and she read it with this great power. 110 00:16:47.190 --> 00:16:58.260 Ashby Kinch : and seriousness and so you can hear that, in the audio so the literary component of it just sort of came from me and my discipline and my my desire to kind of spark conversations and that has evolved over time. 111 00:16:59.070 --> 00:17:10.290 Ashby Kinch : we've we've moved the literary passages around and we've introduced them in different ways, recently we've been trying to push the guests, to come up with a passage that they really love for some reason and we've used that as the the. 112 00:17:10.950 --> 00:17:15.180 Ashby Kinch : The starting point of the conversation I think we're going to try to keep with that structure it's been fun. 113 00:17:16.050 --> 00:17:27.270 Ashby Kinch : So that's a key component to sort of the ethos of the show, and then you know the the i'm going to play a clip here in a second to just so and segue to Charlie to talk a little bit. 114 00:17:27.840 --> 00:17:34.770 Ashby Kinch : about the editing of the show, but another key component was getting those voices i'm hearing the student voices, especially. 115 00:17:35.100 --> 00:17:40.590 Ashby Kinch : And it was Charlie sifting through a bunch of audio that we had recorded, but not fully edited. 116 00:17:41.100 --> 00:17:48.510 Ashby Kinch : That kind of hit upon this great idea of opening each episode with graduate students talking about their professor, so they don't. 117 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:56.820 Ashby Kinch : They don't you know you don't know who's being introduced into obviously see the title, but you hear them talking about little anecdotes little little twist little comments on. 118 00:17:57.450 --> 00:18:04.350 Ashby Kinch : The interactions and engagements that make that relationship between a graduate student and Professor so special so I really. 119 00:18:05.040 --> 00:18:12.690 Ashby Kinch : I really liked that device and it's been really important and so as Charlie and the Jordan talk Jordan will talk about more about the profiles. 120 00:18:12.990 --> 00:18:18.360 Ashby Kinch : But we have thought you know we've spun off this profile idea from that idea that lets just hear more and more. 121 00:18:18.690 --> 00:18:25.770 Ashby Kinch : stories that as we can have graduate students talking about their own journeys into graduate education and so. 122 00:18:26.040 --> 00:18:35.010 Ashby Kinch : When you look at the podcast the main page you'll see that mixture is about 3213 graduate students short profile pieces to one faculty. 123 00:18:35.550 --> 00:18:46.080 Ashby Kinch : Longer faculty conversation and that's the production schedule, are now we're going to kind of try to keep rolling with that model and so there's a bit of a plea behind this which is you know. 124 00:18:46.680 --> 00:18:52.800 Ashby Kinch : send us your ideas for for episodes especially students that you know that have unique and interesting stories. 125 00:18:53.280 --> 00:18:57.600 Ashby Kinch : faculty you think would be great and then also just while i'm making please. 126 00:18:58.170 --> 00:19:06.450 Ashby Kinch : None of us are marketers we're really bad at that part of this, but it would be awesome if all of you, with computer screens up right now clicked on one of the four. 127 00:19:06.930 --> 00:19:15.540 Ashby Kinch : You know podcast streams that your spotify Google podcasts or apple it really matters to the algorithm to get in there and rate and review us five stars, of course. 128 00:19:16.470 --> 00:19:26.760 Ashby Kinch : How this is the most awesome podcast episode i've ever heard but tell your friends, because we really do want to spread the word and we're not you know expert marketers. 129 00:19:27.360 --> 00:19:35.250 Ashby Kinch : So i'm going to just play a quick clip from the opening of the Scott mills episode to kind of illustrate some of these ideas. 130 00:19:41.940 --> 00:19:46.470 Ashby Kinch : My name is Suzanne Garcia Pino and I am sorry. 131 00:19:50.490 --> 00:20:02.520 use my creativity and think of the lens seeing what life's like in Montana, and then getting to know my advisor on a much more personal level, that I did lots of other schools that really sold me on on the program and it's got it. 132 00:20:03.570 --> 00:20:13.440 Right at the University of Montana, for a conference and they actually had a raffle at the conference play hockey game with some premiering holiday is one of the ones. 133 00:20:14.130 --> 00:20:21.060 That had with Scott know when I was fortunate to win the raffle we get to have a coffee date with him we just clicked immediately. 134 00:20:21.300 --> 00:20:35.850 sky and I had doubts that I would have a sample size needed to do this masters Scott kind of gave me a long leash you know he let me use my creativity and think of a way to halfway get results, I can, how can we quantify the weasel como como and now that we use come out of my ears. 135 00:20:37.320 --> 00:20:44.310 Ashby Kinch : Because that last line results coming to my out of my ears was you know, we thought it was such a hysterical moment and then that episode goes on to have. 136 00:20:45.210 --> 00:21:00.330 Ashby Kinch : Scott read a passage from William worse worse tensor and abby famous tensor and abby poem about looking down on the River why so i'm going to break off there and let Charlie pick it up and talk about his experience editing and working on the show. 137 00:21:02.460 --> 00:21:09.690 Charles Bolte : Thanks Ashby and hope everyone can hear me I had some microphone issues earlier thanks for the thumbs upgrade. 138 00:21:10.890 --> 00:21:11.700 Charles Bolte : yeah so. 139 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:27.420 Charles Bolte : Again i'm Charlie and I graduated just this past August from the Grad program in journalism here at you in and I did get involved with confluence about a year and a half ago. 140 00:21:28.260 --> 00:21:41.430 Charles Bolte : maxine spire had helped connect me with Ashby and that's that's when I got involved and yeah back then Ashby and I were sitting and talking and thinking a lot about what do we do with these. 141 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:51.360 Charles Bolte : interviews that had been collected, with the professor's, how do we turn them into these long form episode interviews and what would that structure look like. 142 00:21:51.900 --> 00:21:58.110 Charles Bolte : And a lot of what we ended up doing with both that and the student profiles came from you know. 143 00:21:58.590 --> 00:22:12.300 Charles Bolte : The curriculum that I learned, while I was a graduate student in intermediate and advanced audio at the J school, so it kind of like paid right back into itself, which was a really nice touch a nice thing to be a part of. 144 00:22:13.650 --> 00:22:21.870 Charles Bolte : So yeah getting back to those long form interviews with the professors and turning them into these like 30 to 45 minute episodes. 145 00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:33.660 Charles Bolte : You know it first we had with this mills episode what i'm calling the biz a pile of tape we just had like here's a 90 minute recording let's figure out how to. 146 00:22:34.350 --> 00:22:49.230 Charles Bolte : turn this into something with a strong through line, following what I should be mentioned about you know scott's journey in research into the university and also his philosophy of graduate student education so. 147 00:22:49.710 --> 00:22:58.530 Charles Bolte : You know that just involves sitting down and and and listening to all the material, maybe once maybe twice and kind of just outlining how do we fit this, how do we. 148 00:22:58.920 --> 00:23:05.160 Charles Bolte : How do we cut it down, and so you know we did that and we just stuck to kind of those key tenants of what would become. 149 00:23:06.090 --> 00:23:17.940 Charles Bolte : The framework for all of these Professor interviews in it's that Montana journey that research journey and the theory of graduate education, but you know that really created our foundation for. 150 00:23:19.080 --> 00:23:24.330 Charles Bolte : That allowed for other more spontaneous conversation to bubble up and to reveal even more. 151 00:23:24.810 --> 00:23:40.860 Charles Bolte : about the the professors, so I thought that was like you know just keeping it tight to these three things was was a really great idea that we had early early on and we were able to to build upon as as the last year and a half, has unfolded. 152 00:23:43.830 --> 00:23:53.730 Charles Bolte : So just getting getting back to like how my curriculum that I learned at the graduate or at the J school really helped play into what was going on with these. 153 00:23:54.810 --> 00:24:03.390 Charles Bolte : This the student voices that we heard at the very beginning, when when we were talking about what do we do with these student student voices, because it was really important to us to have. 154 00:24:04.050 --> 00:24:14.070 Charles Bolte : Those integrated into the Professor episodes so that people are hearing the professor's voice and then something from their students link linking linking the relationship together. 155 00:24:14.970 --> 00:24:27.330 Charles Bolte : So the first thing I thought of was like the first you know assignment we get in intermediate audio, which is to do a vox pop or voice of the people it's an assignment where you. 156 00:24:27.870 --> 00:24:34.950 Charles Bolte : You know you stand on a street corner and you ask people, the same question a lot of different people, the same question, maybe it's like. 157 00:24:35.280 --> 00:24:45.570 Charles Bolte : Can you tell me what your favorite song is and hum it for me and then you take all these different responses and you edit them together into like a one minute or 45 second thing. 158 00:24:45.930 --> 00:24:56.310 Charles Bolte : And they're usually pretty fun and engaging because you're just getting like this big collective answer to this one sometimes humorous question, but it can be more serious anyway. 159 00:24:57.810 --> 00:25:05.790 Charles Bolte : yeah I thought that'd be a great framework just let's take these the student voices let's take the best parts of them cut them together. 160 00:25:06.210 --> 00:25:12.540 Charles Bolte : and use it in this like cold open montage that will be a little hook for the episode and also. 161 00:25:13.380 --> 00:25:18.960 Charles Bolte : reveals something or illuminates something you know unique or quirky about the professor and. 162 00:25:19.410 --> 00:25:31.170 Charles Bolte : And so, you know that was just the the J school curriculum paying right back into celebrating the professors and the students here and their work that they do, and I think it worked really well and was glad to see it. 163 00:25:32.340 --> 00:25:39.030 Charles Bolte : see it see it stick around for the last year and a half, with these Professor interviews episodes so. 164 00:25:39.690 --> 00:25:47.160 Charles Bolte : You know, after that, actually, you mentioned the poetry and literature brand that we've integrated in, and then we flow through the body. 165 00:25:47.610 --> 00:26:01.530 Charles Bolte : Of the entire interview through the episode and then we come to a close, with some fun quick hitters at the end where we see to illuminate a little bit more about the quirky side of the person's personality, or just something unique about them. 166 00:26:03.810 --> 00:26:12.000 Charles Bolte : And and industry reveal even more about you know who's behind who the person is behind the professor and and all their work. 167 00:26:13.350 --> 00:26:18.240 Charles Bolte : The other half of the podcasts are the student profiles and. 168 00:26:20.670 --> 00:26:29.640 Charles Bolte : In that that was again just another like the framework that we chose for the student profiles, is what we'd call non narrated where there's no host. 169 00:26:30.030 --> 00:26:36.870 Charles Bolte : involved it's just the students voice talking about their work, and we really wanted to do that and again that was just. 170 00:26:37.350 --> 00:26:44.250 Charles Bolte : Another thing borrowed directly from the curriculum at the J school is that in advanced audio one of the first assignments. 171 00:26:44.670 --> 00:26:51.060 Charles Bolte : That I did was to create a non narrative profile to let someone's voice tell their own story and we thought that would be a really good. 172 00:26:51.690 --> 00:27:00.030 Charles Bolte : really good fit for letting students tell their own story about their own work in their journey to the University of Montana so. 173 00:27:00.510 --> 00:27:09.000 Charles Bolte : So that's what we did with that, but there's another really key element to those student profiles and that's this idea of using. 174 00:27:09.480 --> 00:27:21.330 Charles Bolte : A lot more music more regularly and to set a tone, but not just a set a tone, but also to link different thoughts or chapters of the profile together. 175 00:27:21.780 --> 00:27:39.750 Charles Bolte : That the student would tell, so the music ends up forming these little bridges in between these separate chunks and, for me, that was a really great opportunity to sit in work and learn more about music and scoring as a producer because, while I did have some experience with it. 176 00:27:41.370 --> 00:27:52.500 Charles Bolte : You know confluence really gave me that space and that time to sit down and train my ear, for you know how do I keep the person's voice on beat with the music, how do I faded in just writing. 177 00:27:52.890 --> 00:28:03.270 Charles Bolte : I promise you it's a lot of hours moving these tiny little things around and technical programs, but in the end it really paid off, for me, I feel like I came out of the experience. 178 00:28:04.290 --> 00:28:11.550 Charles Bolte : You know, with a stronger sense of an ear for music as a producer but also at the time as an aspiring journalist. 179 00:28:12.600 --> 00:28:20.250 Charles Bolte : It gave me a lot of time to sit down and just talk with people and hone my skills as a reporter asking questions and developing. 180 00:28:20.760 --> 00:28:26.850 Charles Bolte : That weird sense that I think some journalists good of like I am totally missing this during my interview. 181 00:28:27.270 --> 00:28:33.840 Charles Bolte : What is it what is the question I needed to ask to get to like fill this gap that i'm hearing in the interview and then. 182 00:28:34.170 --> 00:28:42.330 Charles Bolte : And then ask those questions so it was really good to practice all those things the music the scoring those thinking on your feet moments and. 183 00:28:42.810 --> 00:28:52.290 Charles Bolte : Those are all paid dividends to me in my career now as a freelance producer and journalist and one other thing that I have to say is. 184 00:28:52.710 --> 00:28:57.270 Charles Bolte : Working with those long form interviews with the professor's taking a 90 minute interview. 185 00:28:57.780 --> 00:29:08.250 Charles Bolte : that's been really beneficial to me because the first job I got after graduate school that's all I do, I take a big raw interview and I turned it into like a focused podcast episode so. 186 00:29:08.760 --> 00:29:15.300 Charles Bolte : conferences is paid out for me and a lot of ways, so there's more to be said about the Grad student profiles. 187 00:29:16.110 --> 00:29:26.010 Charles Bolte : and Jordan Jordan hunger is someone who has come in, in the last six months or so and really taken the lead on sitting down in interviewing the students. 188 00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:35.400 Charles Bolte : And i've moved into more of just an editor role where I take the con via the first cut of the content, he produces and I put the music to it, and all that so. 189 00:29:35.850 --> 00:29:45.360 Charles Bolte : i'm going to turn it over to Jordan now so that he can talk about the student profiles and his experience working on those so thanks for the opportunity and here's Jordan. 190 00:29:46.620 --> 00:29:49.950 Jordan Unger: sweet well yeah thanks for the segue there Charlie. 191 00:29:51.240 --> 00:30:01.410 Jordan Unger: And i'd like to echo Ashby and charlie's sentiments here as well, thank you for having the confluence team at this 2021 Grad con event we're happy to be here. 192 00:30:02.460 --> 00:30:14.850 Jordan Unger: To start things off, I actually wanted to share a short clip from one of the student profiles Suzanne Garcia Pino who was in MFA candidate in English, it was one of the first down. 193 00:30:16.230 --> 00:30:20.730 Jordan Unger: interviews that I thought just went super well like flowed supernaturally. 194 00:30:21.600 --> 00:30:28.410 Jordan Unger: And then again it could be the fact that she is an MFA student in English and was just articulating herself predominantly well there um. 195 00:30:28.830 --> 00:30:32.490 Jordan Unger: But anyways it was one of the first times in an interview as. 196 00:30:33.210 --> 00:30:45.480 Jordan Unger: She was speaking in my head, I was like this is going to make such great tape and will be such good content, and that was just like that's a positive feeling to come across in terms of the audio realm so i'll throw it to ash be here and see. 197 00:30:48.090 --> 00:31:02.190 I started writing short fiction pieces, they were so unbelievably bad, but, honestly, when I started to get it right, this feeling would come over me. 198 00:31:02.730 --> 00:31:16.140 And it was so calm and it was like you know, being in the flow and that was it an addictive feeling for me, I feel like if my writing is in a healthy space, then. 199 00:31:17.580 --> 00:31:38.250 What i'm trying to do is just be authentic and like what I would say is is right sized like i'm just trying to tell the truth, and I let go of the outcome, I let go of any sort of desire that I have for like what will happen to the piece. 200 00:31:41.550 --> 00:31:50.310 Jordan Unger: sweet, thank you for taking the screen share section of that Aspen and yeah that's Suzanne Garcia Pino just a great interview in terms of. 201 00:31:51.600 --> 00:31:58.050 Jordan Unger: tracking her journey as a writer and touching on her thesis work later on in the episode now just very interesting stuff. 202 00:31:58.920 --> 00:32:06.300 Jordan Unger: But yeah to give more background information, so I got involved with confluence at the start of last semester around August. 203 00:32:06.990 --> 00:32:13.320 Jordan Unger: I was just coming to us to start Grad school in the journalism program and before moving out here i'd been kind of in. 204 00:32:13.800 --> 00:32:21.360 Jordan Unger: constant contact with my advisor it was a naughty white just touching base about different scholarship opportunities employment opportunities. 205 00:32:21.990 --> 00:32:29.880 Jordan Unger: That was pretty keen on trying to hit the ground running in terms of coming across like relevant work experience and things of that nature. 206 00:32:30.750 --> 00:32:39.690 Jordan Unger: My undergraduate degree was in history and i'm primarily focused more on like the print side of journalism, so I knew I wanted to get. 207 00:32:40.230 --> 00:32:48.270 Jordan Unger: Some sort of like relevant work experience to try to start diversifying my skill set so luckily. 208 00:32:49.110 --> 00:32:56.460 Jordan Unger: One morning before I had actually moved out here, I woke up to an email from Nadia and Ashby kinch with CC in it. 209 00:32:57.090 --> 00:33:11.550 Jordan Unger: About a potential employment opportunity, so I pestered him a couple times with some emails and eventually met up with him after i'd gotten out in here, and he was nice enough to put me on the team so that's that initial section. 210 00:33:12.930 --> 00:33:19.170 Jordan Unger: And yeah initially I mean I was a little bit overwhelmed just coming in to my first semester here Grad school during a pandemic and. 211 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:28.410 Jordan Unger: Trying to navigate the work experience with confluence I will say Ashley and Charlie i've just been incredible incredibly helpful and. 212 00:33:29.010 --> 00:33:34.020 Jordan Unger: have fostered one of the more like supportive work environments out there in terms of confluence I can. 213 00:33:34.770 --> 00:33:46.260 Jordan Unger: kind of pick and choose my own battles and i'm able to like kind of progress and develop my own speed with Charlie being very willing to offer his expertise and advice on a lot of things um. 214 00:33:47.130 --> 00:33:53.100 Jordan Unger: But yeah as Charlie mentioned right now my work with confluence primarily revolves around student interviews. 215 00:33:54.060 --> 00:34:10.080 Jordan Unger: So yeah I reached out to various Grad students at UN and try to line up an interview and essentially it's just trying to get a better understanding of the research and honestly like what really makes them tick to try to truly understand the personality behind the work. 216 00:34:11.160 --> 00:34:14.760 Jordan Unger: Another few big parts of confidence that we like to touch on our. 217 00:34:16.020 --> 00:34:26.640 Jordan Unger: What makes their experiences specific specifically at the University of Montana, unique and special and then another section to try to highlight would also be. 218 00:34:27.750 --> 00:34:29.310 Jordan Unger: Trying to capture students. 219 00:34:30.600 --> 00:34:34.620 Jordan Unger: Rapport and relationship with their advisors and have that has kind of gone. 220 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:48.570 Jordan Unger: So, initially, I mean my efforts felt a little bit flat I was just new to even the practice of interviewing people and I kind of struggled to get a little bit deeper beyond some of that surface level stuff. 221 00:34:49.770 --> 00:34:52.920 Jordan Unger: But honestly graduate gradually, with the help of. 222 00:34:54.690 --> 00:35:02.340 Jordan Unger: Charlie and Denise like I became pretty comfortable with the journalism school audio rooms, even though i'm not in an audio class right now. 223 00:35:03.510 --> 00:35:09.180 Jordan Unger: And so that has just been super beneficial in terms of connecting with students and having. 224 00:35:10.380 --> 00:35:12.060 Jordan Unger: High quality audio production. 225 00:35:13.320 --> 00:35:17.670 Jordan Unger: The initial interviews that I do will normally lasts like 45 minutes to an hour. 226 00:35:18.900 --> 00:35:25.620 Jordan Unger: Of course, I always come in with some some questions, I want to hit on but you know follow up questions happen and. 227 00:35:27.480 --> 00:35:32.880 Jordan Unger: we've kind of let the conversation unfold somewhat organically at this point and kind of see where that happens. 228 00:35:34.140 --> 00:35:44.310 Jordan Unger: But from that 4545 minutes to an hour initial interview, the objective for suddenly student profiles is really to try to boil them down to five or six minute long episodes. 229 00:35:45.120 --> 00:35:56.430 Jordan Unger: So i'll go through the initial transcripts of the whole thing and start trying to pull different tape different audio that will really capture the essence and highlights of the interview. 230 00:35:58.170 --> 00:35:59.820 Jordan Unger: So i'll do that and try to make a. 231 00:36:00.960 --> 00:36:05.340 Jordan Unger: transcript transcripts and i'll put the first initial audio cuts. 232 00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:17.250 Jordan Unger: before sending some of this off that Charlie who, you know as the primary primary editors works works magic on making it sound on a little bit nicer. 233 00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:27.420 Jordan Unger: So yeah I mean i'm still navigating kind of the fine art of making unnecessary cats, which is has been a good skill for me to. 234 00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:30.750 Jordan Unger: use within the journalistic realm. 235 00:36:32.160 --> 00:36:37.590 Jordan Unger: So overall, I mean it has been a great work experience as I just reached out to various Grad students and. 236 00:36:38.580 --> 00:36:49.080 Jordan Unger: Help Ashby a little bit with the Faculty interviews in terms of i'm in i'm in the room, with some just doing a little bit of audio work as actually takes over the primary interview with the faculty members. 237 00:36:50.190 --> 00:36:56.310 Jordan Unger: But it's provided me with like a very unique avenue to connect more with the academic community here at UN. 238 00:36:57.990 --> 00:37:05.280 Jordan Unger: yeah, I would like, honestly, on a more personal know, one of the biggest perks has been some of the random connections i've been able to make through confluence. 239 00:37:06.750 --> 00:37:16.170 Jordan Unger: I remember one of my first journalism assignments was to profile an interesting local figure and i've only been in Montana for like a month or so. 240 00:37:17.370 --> 00:37:27.000 Jordan Unger: And my experience here has been predominantly defined by code so like limited opportunities in that regard, and so I you know didn't know who to initially tried to reach out to. 241 00:37:28.350 --> 00:37:44.250 Jordan Unger: So my first thought was to you know contact Ashby he's like well ingrained in the Community and so he was able to set me up with one of his rugby buddies that's you know into environmental and social activism, and it just worked out to be able to connect with him and get a strong profile. 242 00:37:45.690 --> 00:37:47.010 Jordan Unger: And even more recently. 243 00:37:48.210 --> 00:37:50.310 Jordan Unger: actually did a faculty interview with. 244 00:37:51.330 --> 00:37:52.290 Jordan Unger: Dr any bellecourt. 245 00:37:54.090 --> 00:38:07.740 Jordan Unger: who grew up on the black nation, and right now i'm in a class called the native news honors project reporting on a story pretending to one a month and his reservations and kind of looking at how elderly people on the black nation have. 246 00:38:08.760 --> 00:38:11.670 Jordan Unger: coped and fared through the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 247 00:38:12.930 --> 00:38:31.080 Jordan Unger: And so you know I had only met Dr any delacorte through this confluence thing with Ashley but I was able to email her and she's just been such an invaluable resource, so that has been like a super cool and rewarding experience like kind of a side perk of the job that is going on. 248 00:38:33.000 --> 00:38:35.760 Jordan Unger: So yeah I mean to reiterate Ashby. 249 00:38:36.900 --> 00:38:44.460 Jordan Unger: The podcast is on Google podcast spotify stitcher and umc.edu slash Grad under the telling our story tab. 250 00:38:46.170 --> 00:39:00.420 Jordan Unger: Overall, for me the job, experience has been really great i'm happy to be involved with the project for many different reasons and it's helping me directly and indirectly with various journalistic pursuits some really happy about that. 251 00:39:01.980 --> 00:39:03.090 Jordan Unger: So thanks again for having us. 252 00:39:04.350 --> 00:39:10.650 Ashby Kinch : yeah and to just follow up with Jordan, he also runs our instagram account get out there and, like our follow our instagram account. 253 00:39:11.610 --> 00:39:22.440 Ashby Kinch : he's been posting messages we have new podcasts we just just pass our 25th episode this week so that's a kind of Nice benchmark to celebrate that's a great discussion with Rachel syverson. 254 00:39:23.070 --> 00:39:39.240 Ashby Kinch : Thank you all so much for your time and I think the Q amp a is open, I don't know how much time Gray, has a lot of here for this, but if y'all have some questions post them in in Q amp a and we'd love to answer them but also shoot me an email I we'd love to talk to people about the show. 255 00:39:41.520 --> 00:39:46.620 Grayson Oreilly : Thank you Ashley Charlie and Jordan that was that was awesome I have a couple of questions here. 256 00:39:46.950 --> 00:39:56.820 Grayson Oreilly : And we'll go ahead and keep them rolling through, we have a couple minutes to do questions we're going to announce awards here after this but we'll get we'll try and get through a couple of these questions. 257 00:39:57.480 --> 00:40:04.980 Grayson Oreilly : My first question here is how do you determine which stories, you are going to cover, how do you come up with a topic for an episode. 258 00:40:05.370 --> 00:40:14.040 Grayson Oreilly : Can graduate students or faculty reach out with a story or something cool they are working on, can we nominate someone to highlight, so if y'all could speak to that. 259 00:40:14.100 --> 00:40:22.050 Ashby Kinch : definitely yes so so the the initial faculty interviews, you know have mostly been driven by people I know and then i've. 260 00:40:22.380 --> 00:40:28.830 Ashby Kinch : Just recently, been expanding a little bit more beyond that, but you know i've been around for a while, since 2003 so I know a lot of people but. 261 00:40:29.130 --> 00:40:37.380 Ashby Kinch : i've tried very deliberately to move around the colleges and then move around different programs in fact i'm somewhat ashamed, I still haven't interviewed anyone in my home department. 262 00:40:38.340 --> 00:40:47.460 Ashby Kinch : But, but so the Faculty interviews kind of have their little cycle, but the graduate student episodes we always just pick up ideas that we think are neat Jordan meets people. 263 00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:52.020 Ashby Kinch : we're going to want to interview these grand Khan winners that are about to be announced right. 264 00:40:52.650 --> 00:41:08.370 Ashby Kinch : So we look for a little pockets like that, but we're always looking for suggestions, so if you have suggestions definitely email me email confluence podcast at you montana.edu our new email address and we'd love to hear from you. 265 00:41:10.620 --> 00:41:11.220 Grayson Oreilly : awesome. 266 00:41:12.390 --> 00:41:18.510 Grayson Oreilly : What is the strangest thing you learned While talking to all these people in different disciplines across campus. 267 00:41:22.710 --> 00:41:32.430 Charles Bolte : i'll say that I learned that some people put little backpack transmitters on birds to track them while they migrate. 268 00:41:33.630 --> 00:41:41.850 Charles Bolte : I guess it's not that big a stretch to know that we like put tracking devices on things, but just the idea of like a backpack on a bird always makes me chuckle. 269 00:41:45.540 --> 00:41:46.170 Grayson Oreilly : that's a good one. 270 00:41:46.530 --> 00:41:47.400 Ashby Kinch : You have a good one, Jordan. 271 00:41:49.710 --> 00:41:52.380 Jordan Unger: i'm sorry i'm trying to think about a real quick um. 272 00:41:54.660 --> 00:42:14.070 Jordan Unger: I mean one thing that one that I particularly liked learning about was a recent one in the sociology department of Michelle Williams was focusing her research work on truck stop employees during the coronavirus pandemics so it's just kind of interesting to come across. 273 00:42:15.150 --> 00:42:18.450 Jordan Unger: kind of overlooked subject matter that some people are able to. 274 00:42:19.710 --> 00:42:23.010 Jordan Unger: Put researching efforts into so I enjoyed that one for sure. 275 00:42:24.180 --> 00:42:28.260 Grayson Oreilly : believe that was a Grad con submission and you can find a presentation of that on the ground. 276 00:42:29.310 --> 00:42:41.490 Grayson Oreilly : Virtual conference that's great, what are the next steps for confluence if hopefully the world of our opens up again, what are the hopes and dreams for confluence. 277 00:42:43.590 --> 00:42:48.630 Ashby Kinch : I should probably take that one I mean we really loved what we did with the quandary episode. 278 00:42:49.110 --> 00:42:56.400 Ashby Kinch : With interviewing three graduate students together and capturing some of that inner student dynamic and I, the same thing happened with the mills episode. 279 00:42:56.610 --> 00:43:02.580 Ashby Kinch : But that was very hard to pull off during coven and it's it's that's a thing we'd like to try to do a little bit more of. 280 00:43:03.360 --> 00:43:15.660 Ashby Kinch : i've talked about a spin off little sub podcast episode that we would call lab chatter I would love to get into some labs and into some weekly live meetings to capture some of that energy and dynamism. 281 00:43:16.320 --> 00:43:23.760 Ashby Kinch : You know Grad students know that's just where a lot of great ideas get worked out, you know problems and questions so we really like to capture some of that and. 282 00:43:23.970 --> 00:43:30.600 Ashby Kinch : I didn't really say this, you know opening but we really do think of the podcast as an archive we're archiving. 283 00:43:31.200 --> 00:43:37.470 Ashby Kinch : great ideas that were coming across so it's we don't primarily think of it as like a news or communication mechanism. 284 00:43:37.710 --> 00:43:41.760 Ashby Kinch : We think of it as like we're going to capture what it's really like to be a researcher and a student. 285 00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:49.710 Ashby Kinch : And we think that's going to be evergreen content we think that's going to be stuff that you can go back and listen at Scott mills the very, very first one we released, and you know. 286 00:43:49.920 --> 00:44:01.080 Ashby Kinch : it's gotten us right if you know him, you know you're getting this picture of this real person, and so we think of it more like we're building a deep archive and I think we can go deeper in that vein i'm hoping we will. 287 00:44:03.930 --> 00:44:11.850 Grayson Oreilly : Wonderful i've one last question here i'm a financial interdisciplinary it to be really important part of my graduate education. 288 00:44:12.540 --> 00:44:23.970 Grayson Oreilly : While the podcasts do a great job of bringing individuals together, it seems like there could be more you do to encourage interdisciplinary at a larger scale perhaps between departments, or even programs. 289 00:44:24.570 --> 00:44:28.950 Grayson Oreilly : Can you speak to fostering interdisciplinary in graduate studies at the university. 290 00:44:29.040 --> 00:44:39.450 Ashby Kinch : couldn't agree more, and the podcast has not touched on that as fully as it could the videos do like that's been an absolute so you know the bigger mission of the of the confluence as a. 291 00:44:39.750 --> 00:44:46.860 Ashby Kinch : You know, we have several videos that are specifically focused on that interdisciplinary and I couldn't agree more with a question or I didn't see the name but. 292 00:44:47.070 --> 00:44:55.320 Ashby Kinch : That that's such an important part of graduate student life, and so we would welcome ideas for how to capture that in audio it's a little tricky but um. 293 00:44:55.590 --> 00:45:00.120 Ashby Kinch : I have, I have a couple ideas myself a few faculty I know that work across pretty. 294 00:45:00.390 --> 00:45:13.560 Ashby Kinch : Dramatic disciplinary lines, those are the stories that really interests me the most and in a post coated world, it would be great to try to capture some of that energy is how those discussions take place so yes we're definitely thinking about that. 295 00:45:15.270 --> 00:45:23.070 Grayson Oreilly : Wonderful well that's all I have here for the questions Ashley has offered up if you have follow up questions, please shoot an email to that confluence. 296 00:45:24.300 --> 00:45:31.590 Grayson Oreilly : email account Ashley Would you mind dropping that into the chat in case people want to reach out, I think that would be a good way to go there. 297 00:45:33.300 --> 00:45:44.040 Grayson Oreilly : let's go ahead and move into the award winners for Grad con so again another Thank you to ask, we can surely both Balti and Jordan hunger for presenting here from confluence. 298 00:45:44.400 --> 00:45:51.030 Grayson Oreilly : we're very grateful, you came and I think it is very relevant here in a time of great digital education to talk about. 299 00:45:51.450 --> 00:46:02.280 Grayson Oreilly : What the university is doing at the graduate level to foster digital education that's awesome i'm going to share my screen here again and we're going to get into the award winners. 300 00:46:03.780 --> 00:46:05.490 Grayson Oreilly : extract click the right one. 301 00:46:07.530 --> 00:46:08.850 Give me one moment. 302 00:46:18.360 --> 00:46:21.840 Grayson Oreilly : Alright, we should have the screen up here. 303 00:46:25.560 --> 00:46:26.130 Grayson Oreilly : um. 304 00:46:27.330 --> 00:46:32.520 Grayson Oreilly : alrighty so let me open up my next screen too many screens going on. 305 00:46:36.690 --> 00:46:36.960 Michelle Eckert: Oh. 306 00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:45.840 Grayson Oreilly : Can everyone see Michelle are we good here can we see the best of God kind of oral presentations in humanities and social sciences. 307 00:46:46.020 --> 00:46:46.620 Michelle Eckert: we're all set. 308 00:46:47.610 --> 00:46:55.260 Grayson Oreilly : alrighty so for the oral presentations and humanities and social sciences, like to congratulate Lindsey Elliot. 309 00:46:56.400 --> 00:47:08.340 Grayson Oreilly : Their presentation was titled coordination of trans boundary marine protected areas and the sulu so Lucy seascape Thank you so much, it was a wonderful presentation i'd like to add here, I should have said before. 310 00:47:09.090 --> 00:47:18.750 Grayson Oreilly : There were a lot of really wonderful submissions we had 73 presentations submitted, and it was really tough for judges to choose, they were they were all wonderful and please remember. 311 00:47:19.380 --> 00:47:28.920 Grayson Oreilly : That links will be available in the chat and are also available on the website, and you can take a look at any of these presentations please also forgive my pronunciation i'm doing my best. 312 00:47:30.030 --> 00:47:32.730 Grayson Oreilly : And, as I move through these award winners. 313 00:47:33.810 --> 00:47:50.160 Grayson Oreilly : In the category of best of Grad con an oral presentations in stem we'd like to congratulate Rebecca brass field their presentation was totaled using classification trees to identify bumblebees so very nice rhyme great job. 314 00:47:51.750 --> 00:48:03.600 Grayson Oreilly : In the best of Grad con in visual and performing arts category we'd like to congratulate eliza doolittle pass Fisher screaming from the zoo a preview. 315 00:48:08.610 --> 00:48:24.960 Grayson Oreilly : In the category of breath best of Grad con poster presentations and humanities and social sciences poster category congratulations to Lisa hunt damning so little falls morning a miracle, the title of their presentation. 316 00:48:27.720 --> 00:48:40.500 Grayson Oreilly : And in the category of best of Grad con poster presentations in stem we'd like to congratulate gina belair investigating the transfer ability of landslide hazard assessments. 317 00:48:41.940 --> 00:48:49.260 Grayson Oreilly : Thank you so much, I know that went quickly there those all those awards at the end, but they will be up on the website. 318 00:48:49.740 --> 00:48:59.730 Grayson Oreilly : All of those presentations are available to view on the website as well, and if you missed one there if you blinked because I was moving too quickly they're up on the website which the link will be dropped into the chat. 319 00:49:00.450 --> 00:49:06.270 Grayson Oreilly : A special thank you to our confluence panelists to volunteer judges and presenting contributors. 320 00:49:06.570 --> 00:49:14.550 Grayson Oreilly : We look forward to seeing everyone next year, we look forward to seeing what confluence does over the course of the next year and a couple of special thank yous. 321 00:49:15.210 --> 00:49:27.660 Grayson Oreilly : First, to Scott Wittenberg we'd also like to thank the US Grad school for sponsoring this event to organizers which included the graduate professional student association or GPS say. 322 00:49:28.470 --> 00:49:36.060 Grayson Oreilly : If you ever have any questions about your Grad representation, please reach out to us, that is, the organization that i'm a part of. 323 00:49:38.070 --> 00:49:41.520 Grayson Oreilly : We like to thank you, Michelle Eckert and conference management services. 324 00:49:42.120 --> 00:49:47.220 Grayson Oreilly : I promise, this would not have been possible without Michelle or conference management services just. 325 00:49:47.550 --> 00:50:01.260 Grayson Oreilly : invaluable Thank you so very much thank you to Wendy Walker the scholar works administrator and mansfield digital librarian and to shereen grogan and staff of the writing and public speaking Center. 326 00:50:01.950 --> 00:50:06.930 Grayson Oreilly : It took an army to make this happen, especially as we're figuring out the new format in. 327 00:50:07.560 --> 00:50:17.820 Grayson Oreilly : In this digital time we are so happy with how it came together Congratulations again to all winners and again, you can view all those presentations online at the website. 328 00:50:18.240 --> 00:50:28.920 Grayson Oreilly : And those links are dropped in the chat feel free to stick around, if you would like to ask any questions here in the last five minutes in chat but otherwise That concludes this year's live. 329 00:50:29.520 --> 00:50:38.850 Grayson Oreilly : Virtual graduate Grad con here at us, so thank you very much, thanks again to presenters we did it we We made it through.