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Sustainable Nano

Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, Elfy Chiang

Science

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/68d. Total Eps: 51

Curious about nanotechnology, sustainability, and life in science? The Sustainable Nano podcast is produced by the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, a chemistry research center funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.

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http://susnano.wisc.edu
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https://susnano.wisc.edu/our-team-members/dr-miriam-krause/
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http://podcast.sustainable-nano.com
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https://twitter.com/paige_kinsley
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https://twitter.com/smilesnvials
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https://twitter.com/BezaTuga
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Ep 45. The World is Really Ready for Change

Season 6 · Episode 6

Friday, March 15, 2024 • Duration 37:11

Professor Mike Curry of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technological State University (NCAT) is a scientist, inventor, mentor, and advocate with a passion for bringing attention to the great research that happens at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). In this episode we share an interview between Dr. Curry and Dr. Bob Hamers, Director of the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, discussing Dr. Curry's nanocellulose research and the process of bringing HBCUs and Primarily White Institutions (PWIs) together for meaningful collaboration.

image shows Mike Curry (above) and Bob Hamers (below) during their Zoom call to record this interview

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Related links:

Mike Curry: CSN profile, LinkedIn
Bob Hamers: CSN profile, Lab website
Accounts of Chemical Research: Special Issue on Advancing Research at HBCUs
NCAT Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering,
Podcast episode 12: Making Sustainable Nanoparticles from Plants with Mike Curry
Podcast episode 7: What Do Glaciers Have to Do with Nanoscience? with Bob Hamers
CSN & Curry group alum Dr. Donald White
Binghamton University Emerging Science & Technology Summit
NSF Ideas Lab: Advancing Research Capacity at HBCUs through Exploration and Innovation (ARC-HBCU)
Recent patent: High-throughput synthesis of metallic nanoparticles
The NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology

Interviewee: Mike Curry

Interviewer: Bob Hamers

Producer/Host: Miriam Krause

Music: PC III and Dexter Britain

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.

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Ep 44. Part of Something Bigger: Social Media, Mentoring, & Friendship with Stuart Cantrill

Season 6 · Episode 5

Wednesday, December 20, 2023 • Duration 41:23

Early in the COVID pandemic, then-graduate student Safia Jilani became Twitter buddies with the Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry, Dr. Stuart Cantrill. Dr. Jilani is now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, and Dr. Cantrill is now the Editorial Director for all of Nature's physics and chemistry journals... and they finally got the chance to meet in person last month! In this episode we bring you a conversation between these two chemists about the power and challenges of social media, the importance of mentorship, and being open to unforeseen career paths.

image shows Stuart Cantrill (left) and Safia Jilani (right) enjoying ice cream in Cambridge

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Related links:

Stuart Cantrill: blog, BlueSky
Safia Jilani: website, BlueSky
Nature Chemistry: website, Twitter
Nature Nanotechnology: website, Twitter

Ep 36. "Yes, and...": A Guide to Effective Science Communication Using Improvisation

Season 4 · Episode 5

Thursday, August 20, 2020 • Duration 40:42

Science communication takes a lot of different forms, including improvisation. In this episode, we interview Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology graduate student Paige Kinsley and alum Liz Laudadio. The episode dives deep into the life skills you can learn from doing improv, how it can make you a better listener, and how it relates to science storytelling. Not to mention the benefits of finding hobbies to do with your labmates.

(Paige Kinsley (left) and Liz Laudadio (right), mid-improv performance and recording this episode's interview, along with Blue the cat. (photos courtesy of Liz Laudadio & Paige Kinsley)

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Related links:

Liz Laudadio: website, Twitter
Paige Kinsley: website, Twitter
Atlas Theater Company
Minh Tam Hoang's blog post: coming soon!
Article about summer undergraduate programs: COVID-19 shakes up summer internship and research opportunities

Ep. 35 Photographing the Unphotographable

Season 4 · Episode 4

Friday, May 8, 2020 • Duration 37:23

How do you photograph the unphotographable? In this episode we interview MIT research scientist Felice Frankel, who specializes in visualizing science, using pictures to draw audiences in and help scientists more deeply examine their own work, including nanoscale materials that are smaller than wavelengths of light! We also have a mini-interview with graduate student Paige Kinsley about how COVID-19 is affecting chemistry labs in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.

(photos by Miriam Krause)

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Related links:

Felice Frankel
Books: Modern Landscape Architecture, Picturing Science & Engineering, No Small Matter
Stephen J. Gould; E.O. Wilson; George Whitesides; Don Eigler
Sustainable Nano blog posts: Ferrofluid, gold color & surface plasmon resonance

Ep. 34 Winter Holiday Mini-Episode: Colorful Carbon Dots

Season 4 · Episode 3

Friday, December 20, 2019 • Duration 08:19

Winter can get pretty dark, especially in northern latitudes, and many cultures have winter holidays that feature and celebrate lights. For our last episode of 2019 we decided to talk about the bright and colorful chemistry of carbon dots! In this mini episode we interview Dr. Christy Haynes, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota and Associate Director of the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology.

Left: Dr. Christy Haynes. Right: Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) image of malic acid carbon dots with an inset photo of the carbon dots in aqueous solution and illuminated by 365 nm UV (carbon dot image by Bo Zhi)

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Related links:

Christy Haynes: website, Twitter
Sustainable Nano blog post: Have you ever seen colorful "carbon"?
Pham, S. et al. Carbon Dots: A Modular Activity To Teach Fluorescence and Nanotechnology at Multiple Levels. Journal of Chemical Education, 2017. 94(8) 1143-1149. doi: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.6b00995
The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology

Interviewee: Christy Haynes

Producer/Host: Miriam Krause

Music: PC III and

Ep. 33 It Just Didn't Feel Like Me: Belonging and Sexism in Science

Season 4 · Episode 2

Tuesday, November 26, 2019 • Duration 48:09

How often do college women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experience sexism? And how do these experiences affect their likelihood of staying in scientific fields? In this episode we talk with Majel Baker, a counseling psychologist who investigated these questions in her doctoral dissertation. Spoiler alert: sexism is bad. But there are ways we can work to improve the situation. Plus, we have a mini-interview about what this year's chemistry Nobel prize had to do with sustainable nanotechnology.

(photo courtesy of Majel Baker)

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Related links:

Majel Baker: website, Twitter
- articles coming soon (links will be added when available): Daily Sexism Experienced by Women in STEM Majors; The power of peers: Correlates of classroom climate in undergraduate women in STEM
Natalie Hudson-Smith: website, Twitter
National Academies Report: Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018)
Cheryan, et al. Why are some STEM fields more gender balanced than others? Psychological Bulletin, 2017, 143(1) 1-35.
Grogan, K. How the entire scientific community can confront gender bias in the workplace. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019, 3,3-6.
Pollack, E. What really keep women out of tech. New York Times, Oct 10, 2015.

Ep 32. An Electronic Circuit on Every Seed?

Season 4 · Episode 1

Wednesday, October 30, 2019 • Duration 36:02

What if every seed you planted could include a sensor to monitor moisture and nutrients? What if every tissue had nanoscale electronics to check for viruses when you blew your nose? Our fourth season launches with an interview about the future of nanotransistor technology with Professor Mike Filler from Georgia Tech. We also begin our new series of timely mini-interviews with a quick conversation about "necrochemistry" in honor of Halloween.

Prof. Michael Filler (left, photo courtesy of Dr. Filler) and his Nanovation Podcast

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Related links:

Prof. Mike Filler: website, Twitter
Nanovation Podcast
Moore's Law
- Moore’s Law Is Dead. Now What? by Tim Simonite in MIT Technology Review, 2016.
Prof. Kira Barton
Prof. Bob Hamers (Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology Director)
Natalie Hudson-Smith: website, Twitter

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Season 4

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 • Duration 01:27

We've got a great lineup of episodes taking shape for this year on our themes of Nanotechnology, Sustainability, and Life in Science. Interviews include Prof. Mike Filler talking about nanowires and his podcast Nanovation, Majel Baker discussing the effects of sexism in science, Felice Frankel talking about visual communication for nanoscience, and that's only the beginning. Subscribe now so you don't miss an episode!

Sustainable Nano – Details, episodes & analysis

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