Emerging Alumni Scholars Podcast
1) Doctoring the Bled: Medical Auxiliaries, Therapeutic Modernities, and the Administration of Rural Life in Colonial Algeria
History of Science graduate student Hannah-Louise Clark presents her research on public health in colonial Algeria from 1904-1962 and describes the complex and problematic roles played by native, Mus...Show More
2) Should Swimming Robots be Flexible?
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering graduate student Daniel Quinn discusses his research into underwater robots, propulsion, and the benefits of using bio-inspired design for increased maneuverabilit...Show More
3) More than Just Carriers: How Chagas Disease Affects the Insect that Spreads it
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology graduate student Jennifer Peterson explains how Chagas disease both affects and is affected by the kissing bug that spreads it.
More than Just Carriers: How Chagas Disease Affects the Insect that Spreads it
22:48 | May 23rd, 2014
4) Bionic Nanosensors
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering graduate student Manu Sebastian Mannoor discusses his research into the merging of electronics with the human body for the purposes of creating biomedical sensors ...Show More
5) How tiny particles in the atmosphere change temperature, rainfall, and the transport of heat
Atmospheric and Oceanic Studies graduate student Ilissa Ocko presents her research on the ways in which the aerosols sulfate and black carbon have affected earth’s temperature, precipitation, and heat...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.6) Small RNAs as novel therapeutics for bone metastasis
Molecular Biology graduate student Brian Ell presents his research on micro RNAs as inhibitors of breast cancer bone metastasis and their use as possible therapeutics and clinical biomarkers in the fu...Show More
7) The Meaning of Financial Value in 1720: Mathematics and Morality during the South Sea Bubble
History of Science graduate student William Deringer presents his research on Britain's South Sea Bubble (1720), Archibald Hutcheson's mathematical models for understanding this financial crisis, and...Show More
8) Wealth and the Marital Divide
Sociology graduate student Daniel Schneider presents his research on economic factors and the changes in American marriage over the past few decades. In examining the change in the social meaning of ...Show More
9) Between City and Country: Architecture and Patronage at Palladio's Villa Pisani at Montagnana
Art and Archaeology graduate student Johanna Heinrichs presents her research on the architectural patronage of Francesco Pisani and the work of Andrea Palladio, who designed Pisani’s villa at Montagna...Show More
10) Inserts in the Book of Nature: Geology and Reconstruction in Adalbert Stifter’s Indian Summer (1857)