Through a series of in-depth, candid, and entertaining conversations, this podcast explores how guests from various backgrounds, including researchers, scientists, artists, entrepreneurs and public figures, discovered their passion for STEM and the role that STEM plays in their work and life. Available on Anchor or Spotify.
July 2, 2021
Episode 1: C. Brandon Ogbunu
C. Brandon Ogbunu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale University. He’s an evolutionary geneticist whose research interest focuses on complex interactions between genes and the environment. In addition, Brandon writes for various venues at the intersection between science, data and culture. His writing has appeared in Wired Magazine, Deadspin, The Conversation, Greater Good Magazine and Boxing.com.
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September 2, 2021
Episode 2: Sylvester J. Gates, Jr.
Sylvester James Gates Jr., known as S. James Gates Jr. or Jim Gates, is an American theoretical physicist who works on supersymmetry, supergravity, and superstring theory. He retired from the physics department at the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences in 2017, and he is now the Brown Theoretical Physics Center Director, the Ford Foundation Professor of Physics, Affiliate Professor of Mathematics, and Watson Institute for International Studies & Public Affairs Faculty Fellow at Brown University. He was a University of Maryland Regents Professor and served on former President Barack Obama’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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April 28, 2022
Episode 3: Lorin Crawford
Lorin Crawford is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, MA. He also maintains a faculty position in the School of Public Health at Brown University with an affiliation in the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. The central aim of his research program is to develop novel and efficient algorithms that address complex problems in quantitative genetics, cancer pharmacology, molecular genomics, and geometric morphometrics (i.e., radiomics and cancer imaging). Prior to joining Microsoft, he received his PhD from the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University where he was co-advised by Sayan Mukherjee and Kris C. Wood. As a Duke Dean’s Graduate Fellow and NSF Graduate Research Fellow he completed his PhD dissertation entitled: “Bayesian Kernel Models for Statistical Genetics and Cancer Genomics.” He also received his Bachelors of Science degree in Mathematics from Clark Atlanta University.
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September 23, 2022
Episode 4: Elizabeth Wayne
Elizabeth Wayne is a TED Fellow and Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering. Her research is at the interface of immunology and biomaterials engineering, designing nanoparticles and diagnostic tools that can modulate macrophage phenotype. Currently, she is applying these concepts to investigate air-pollution, lung regeneration, atherosclerosis, pre-eclampsia, and cancer.
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September 23 2022
Episode 5: Nadya Mason
Nadya Mason is the Rosalyn S. Yalow Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and founding Director of the Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center. She is an experimental physicist who works at the intersection of complex materials, superconductivity, and nanotechnology. She is particularly recognized for her work elucidating the electronic properties of low-dimensional correlated materials, such as hybrid superconducting devices containing metal, graphene, or topological insulators.
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