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Summer Undergraduate Research - Nathan Greenwood
Episode 11
Doing research over the summer as an undergraduate is a great way to experience what life is like as a scientist. In this episode, you’ll hear from s…
7 hours ago
"Not Believing That I Cannot" - Parisa Hosseinzadeh
Episode 10
As a new professor with a newborn, Parisa suffered a stroke that left her unable to walk or talk. She leaned on love and stubbornness to recover her …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
From Student to Professor - Linna An
Episode 9
When is it time to walk away from a research project? For Linna, it happened after a year of frustrating experiments — when her PhD advisor helped he…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Composing Complexity - Arvind Pillai
Episode 8
What happens when a kid who sketches dinosaurs grows up to reimagine biology? In this episode, postdoctoral scholar Arvind Pillai traces his unexpect…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Winning iGEM, Building Companies - Ingrid Swanson Pultz
Episode 7
Launching UW’s first iGEM team changed the course of Ingrid’s career. Her team built an enzyme to digest gluten that took first place in the biotech …
9 months, 2 weeks ago
Reprogramming Life - Yuliya Politanska
Episode 6
Yuliya Politanska’s path to science began with onion cells and a microscope in her hometown of Chernivtsi, Ukraine. As a teen, she moved to the U.S. …
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Exploring Molecular Frontiers - Alexis Courbet
Episode 5
Centuries ago, explorers set sail across vast oceans. Today, scientists like Alexis Courbet are navigating uncharted waters at the nanoscale. As a re…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Inside the Nobel Prize - Ian Haydon
Episode 4
Winning a Nobel Prize is a rare and extraordinary achievement—but what happens behind the scenes? In this episode, David Baker takes us inside his jo…
1 year ago
Cures and Community - Jeremiah Sims
Episode 3
Jeremiah Sims is trying to stop the next pandemic. As an MD/PhD trainee with a deep passion for public health, his research with David Baker focuses …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Courage to Create - Susana Vazquez Torres
Episode 2
Susana Vazquez Torres embodies courage. Born in Mexico, she moved to a big city to study science — and then crossed continents twice to advance her s…
1 year, 3 months ago