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Create@State Podcast Features STEM Posters at Arkansas Capitol

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This is A-State Connections on KASU.  I’m Johnathan Reaves. This is the weekly segment called “A-State Connections and Create@State: Making Connections That Count”.   The annual STEM Posters at the Arkansas Capitol takes place in Little Rock on February 20.  The event allows undergraduate students from colleges and universities across the state to participate in showing off their research on posters to the public, especially to state lawmakers.  Arkansas State University will be sending students to this event. 

Telling us more is the founder of the state event Dr. Patrick Desrochers.  He is a Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair at the University of Central Arkansas.  Emily Devereux is the Executive Director of Arkansas State University’s Research and Technology Transfer.  Desrochers joined the interview over the phone and told more about the event.  Click on the Listen button to hear the entire interview.  

Emily Devereux is the Executive Director of Arkansas State University’s Research and Technology Transfer and Dr. Patrick Desrochers is Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair at the University of Central Arkansas.  STEM Posters at the Arkansas Capitol takes place on Wednesday, February 20. 

To hear more interviews like this one, you can subscribe to the Create@ State Podcast at the Create@State podcast page on KASU.org. It is also available on iTunes or Google Play, or you can listen on the NPR app.  Please tell others about the Create@State Podcast, also leave us a review.  We would love to hear from you. 

Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.