Season 7 Preview
It's the 7th season of the Sustainable Nano Podcast! Here's a quick preview of the three episodes of this final mini-season, including inter...
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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 b...
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20 of 51 episodesEp 45. The World is Really Ready for Change
Professor Mike Curry of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technological State University (NCAT) is a scientist, inventor, mentor, and advoca...
Ep 44. Part of Something Bigger: Social Media, Mentoring, & Friendship with Stuart Cantrill
Early in the COVID pandemic, then-graduate student Safia Jilani became Twitter buddies with the Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Natu...
Ep 43. Revolutionizing How we Grow, Distribute, & Store Food: Revisiting the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Five years after our first interview, we catch up with Dr. Jason White about chemistry at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station an...
Ep 42. Why We All Feel So Terrible And What to Do About It
Mental Health Awareness Month was back in May, but it's never too late to talk about mental health and strategies for taking care of ourselv...
Season 6 Trailer
We've got a great set of episodes for Season 6 following our themes of Nanotechnology, Sustainability, and Life in Science. Interviews inclu...
Ep 41. Stronger, Tougher, Lighter
What do nanotechnology, blacksmithing, and Star Wars have in common? In this episode, we talk with Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu about a range of top...
Ep 40. This Is the Future
It's the first episode of season 6! Come for the nanopharmacology, stay for the robotics and fun with Twitter networking. In this episode, w...
Ep 39. Retelling a Story Through Illustrations: Lifeology Part 2
How do you explain sustainable nanotechnology using art? Last fall the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology collaborated with Lifeology, an...
Ep 38. Beyond Jargon to Empathy: Lifeology Part 1
How do you explain sustainable nanotechnology in text shorter than a tweet? This fall the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology collaborated...
Ep 37. Shine Bright like a Diamond... Inside of a Worm
Zach Jones, a graduate student in the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, gives diamonds to his study organism. But they're nanodiamonds,...
Ep 36. "Yes, and...": A Guide to Effective Science Communication Using Improvisation
Science communication takes a lot of different forms, including improvisation. In this episode, we interview Center for Sustainable Nanotech...
Ep. 35 Photographing the Unphotographable
How do you photograph the unphotographable? In this episode we interview MIT research scientist Felice Frankel, who specializes in visualizi...
Ep. 34 Winter Holiday Mini-Episode: Colorful Carbon Dots
Winter can get pretty dark, especially in northern latitudes, and many cultures have winter holidays that feature and celebrate lights. For...
Ep. 33 It Just Didn't Feel Like Me: Belonging and Sexism in Science
How often do college women in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) experience sexism? And how do these experiences affect their...
Ep 32. An Electronic Circuit on Every Seed?
What if every seed you planted could include a sensor to monitor moisture and nutrients? What if every tissue had nanoscale electronics to c...
Season 4 Preview
We've got a great lineup of episodes taking shape for this year on our themes of Nanotechnology, Sustainability, and Life in Science. Interv...
Ep 31. Jumping Asteroid Clouds: Supporting Vulnerable Learners in Educational Achievement
Last November, Dr. Cat Hicks wrote an essay on Medium called "Reading vulnerable learners' applications to grad school: we need to stop fail...
Ep 30. Nanocomposites: Getting the Best of Two Worlds
What could be cooler than a technology that uses nanomaterials? How about one that combines two nanomaterials! Nanocomposites bring together...
Ep 29. Green is the Color of Chemistry
Dr. Mary Kirchhoff is Executive Vice President of Scientific Advancement at the American Chemical Society and Director of the ACS Green Chem...