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Dr. Holly Golecki, a professor in the Bioengineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, talks about using soft robotics ...
- Added: Sep 04, 2023
- Length: 48:22
Cultivated meat has the potential to disrupt the meat industry, and engineer Dr. Katie Kam joins the podcast to talk about it. Katie founded BioBQ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2023
- Length: 28:20
The Physics Circus at The University of Texas at Austin tries to attract kids to science using loud and entertaining demonstrations that might not ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2022
- Length: 29:29
Do scientific research articles sometimes sound like another language? To K-12 students, very often it’s yes. Tanya Dimitrova tried to help solve...
- Added: Feb 03, 2022
- Length: 48:59
What is synthetic biology? Researcher and professor Dr. Xiaojing Gao introduces this cutting edge field. He explains how his lab at Stanford Univer...
- Added: Dec 15, 2021
- Length: 27:54
Learning in robotics doesn’t have to take weeks, if you can design, build, and test a robot in hours in a video game. Dan White, CEO of Filament G...
- Added: Nov 20, 2021
- Length: 51:41
The Robotics Education and Competition (REC) Foundation has been running robotics programs for youth for years, including the widespread global com...
- Added: Aug 06, 2021
- Length: 37:29
Math is fundamental to engineering education and other disciplines. That’s part of why Richard Rusczyk wants to teach kids harder math than they o...
- Added: Jul 13, 2021
- Length: 59:36
Kids can learn CAD for 3D printing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be a hassle. David Seto and Michael Welch wrote a set of books to make teachin...
- Added: Jun 17, 2021
- Length: 49:38
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF) is a nonprofit running several programs in K-12 STEM education, including its Computer Science Insti...
- Added: May 24, 2021
- Length: 35:39
The pandemic has spurred teachers like Amanda Hough to teach CAD remotely, but how do you do that if students don’t have the hardware to run resour...
- Added: Apr 27, 2021
- Length: 34:15
STEM curriculum specialist Dr. Corey Hall shares tips and resources for teaching engineering effectively at the K-12 level in 2021, both during and...
- Added: Apr 07, 2021
- Length: 45:50
LEDs, or light-emitting diodes, have changed the world – and continue to do so. This energy-efficient electronics technology came from decades of ...
- Added: Mar 05, 2021
- Length: 53:11
How do you make an audio-based course to teach science topics to kids? Podcast creator, teacher, and musician Marshall Escamilla explains. Marsha...
- Added: Aug 28, 2020
- Length: 44:13
These teachers know tech. Steve Dembo and Victoria Thompson teach in K-12 and are also educational technology consultants. Steve is a middle scho...
- Added: May 11, 2020
- Length: 01:11:32
The nonprofit Beyond Benign specializes in developing and disseminating educational resources in green chemistry – like how to create bioplastics, ...
- Added: Apr 11, 2020
- Length: 51:47
Doctors often suggest managing diabetes through diet and exercise, but that’s primarily for type 2 diabetes. Those who suffer from type 1 diabetes ...
Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KSFR, and WOUB
- Added: Oct 06, 2017
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 5
About 1 in 8 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lifetime. Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cance...
Bought by KENW, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 16, 2017
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 4
UT Austin biologist Rebecca Young traces the genes behind monogamous behavior using Wrangler data-intensive supercomputer.
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 08:10
- Purchases: 1
Mary has developed a career specializing in popular science and doing it with respect and wit. Since the publication of her first book “Stiff,” she...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Oct 04, 2015
- Length: 09:15
- Purchases: 1
Orville and Wilbur, DIY scientists, were bicycle mechanics at the turn of the 20th century in Dayton, Ohio before they changed our world. David Mc...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 09:58
- Purchases: 1
A British mathematical physicist, Roger is one of the world’s leading scientists. He speaks of black holes, religion and twistor theory. Our conver...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 30, 2013
- Length: 10:02
- Purchases: 1