Grad Chat, a collaboration with CFRC 101.9FM, is a 30-minute radio show that features graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This is an opportunity to showcase their program and their research to Queen’s and Kingston communities. It is also a training opportunity to learn how to disseminate their work to a non-specialist audience.
All aired sessions will be available to listen via podcast on either Apple podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify or Stitcher. All options can be sourced via
Summer Break
Grad Chat is currently taking its usual summer break - regular weekly programming with new episodes will resume in Fall 2025. In the meantime, we'll be showing reruns of Grad Chat greatest hits from the past year! Check out the episode listing below:
| Airs 4pm Tuesdays | Who | Program | Title | Originally Aired |
| May 20th 2025 | Allen Tian | PhD Biology | Assessing the impact of Invasive mollusk species | January 14th 2025 |
| May 27th 2025 | Eileen O'Brien | Biomedical & Molecular Science | Gut healing: uncovering immune pathways contributing to IBD | December 3rd 2024 |
| June 3rd 2025 | Jiale Xie | MSc in Translational Medicine | Personalizing Blood Pressure Targets in the ICU to Improve Survivor Cognitive Outcomes | September 17th 2024 |
| June 10th 2025 | Kennedy Quigg | Chemistry/Chemistry Biology | Discovery and Characterisation of Putative Thermostable Enzymes | October 23rd 2024 |
| June 17th 2025 | PhD-CI Project with KFL &A | PhD-CI Project with KFL&A Public Health | PhD-CI Project with KFL&A Public Health | January 28th 2025 |
| June 24th 2025 | Gabby Torretto | Pathology & Molecular Medicine | Assessing BRCA1 Genetic Variants | February 11th 2025 |
| July1st 2025 | Zoe Brisson-Tsavoussis | Astro-particle Physics | Neutrinos, Blazars, and Black Holes | March 5th 2025 |
| July 8th 2025 | Rashelle Aldbai | Biomedical & Molecular Science | Impact of cannabis on cancer metastasis mediated through epigenetic rewiring | October 29th 2024 |
| July 15th 2025 | Blue Miaoran Dong | PhD Carleton | Studying Similarities and differences between tech platforms and privatized structure | November 19th 2024 |
| July 22nd 2025 | Alyssa Grocutt | Management | Employee perceptions and behaviours towards tattooed colleagues | March 18th 2025 |
| July 29th 2025 | Danielle Harper | Pathology & Molecular Medicine | Genetic disruption to decrease breast cancer metastasis | April 8th 2025 |
| August 5th 2025 | Nikta Sadati | PhD English Literature & Creative Writing | Afrofuturism and Diaspora Studies | April 15th 2025 |
| August 12th 2025 | Ahmad Nahib | Computing | Building trust in reinforcement learning for next-generation wireless networks | February 18th 2025 |
| August 19th 2025 | April Saleem | Pathology & Molecular Medicine | Investigating the role of the gut microbiota in depressive disorders | April 9th 2024 |
| August 26th 2025 | Basmah Rahman | PhD English Literature & Creative Writing | Canadian BIPOC Literature and Educational Pedagogies | Mar 26th 2025 |
How To Sign Up
Just print off and fill in the "Interviewee Form" (70KB). Return it to Katie-Marie in the SGSPA office at kmm18@queensu.ca
Interviews are usually pre-recorded either in the CFRC studio or online.
You can watch previous episodes via podcast on Google podcast, Spotify or Stitcher. All are accessible on .