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What the Current Ebola Outbreak Reveals About Public Health
What the Current Ebola Outbreak Reveals About Public HealthIn this episode of AUB@Work, infectious disease expert Nesrine Rizk explains why the current Ebola outbreak in central Africa is unlikely to…
Lebanese Founders Are Turning Constraints Into a Start-Up Advantage
Episode Title: Lebanese Founders Are Turning Constraints Into a Start-Up AdvantageEpisode Description:Lebanon’s start-up founders face limited capital, ongoing instability, and a small domestic…
Why the Same Workout Works Differently for Different Bodies
Why the Same Workout Works Differently for Different BodiesWhy do some people burn more energy doing the same activity, while others seem to conserve it? In this episode of AUB at Work, sports…
Health Questions Need Health-Specific Chatbots
Health Questions Need Health-Specific ChatbotsAI chatbots are changing how people search for health information, but when the topic is health, a confident answer is not always a safe one. In this…
How Crisis Conditions Shape Preterm Birth
Dr. Charafeddine explains why parental mental health is not “extra”—it’s part of the care plan. Babies need nurturing caregivers to thrive, and caregivers need psychological, emotional, and social…
How Far Can AI Go in Medicine?
As a young pathologist, Riyad El-Khoury spent long days hunched over a microscope—an intense, repetitive craft where fatigue is part of the job. Today, as associate professor of pathology and head of…
Turning Tires into a Valuable Energy Resource
In this episode, we talk with Joseph Zeaiter, professor at the American University of Beirut (Baha and Walid Bassatne Department of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Energy), whose team is working to…
Can Collective Recovery Endure?
What happens when a disaster hits—and the state can’t (or won’t) respond? In this episode, urban studies professor Mona Harb, co-founder of the Beirut Urban Lab at the American University of Beirut,…
Saving Artifacts with Algorithms
After the 2020 Beirut port blast, curator-archaeologist Nadine Panayot led a tech-enabled rescue at AUB’s Archaeological Museum—digitizing archives, virtually reconstructing shattered Roman glass,…
Native Beach Microbes Against Oil Spills
Environmental microbiologist Darine Salam explains why boosting native beach microbes (biostimulation) often cleans coastlines faster and with fewer side effects than chemicals or lab-engineered…
Turning a Phone Camera into a 3D Mapper
AUB’s Daniel Asmar explains MGSO, a new system that turns a single phone camera into a real-time 3D mapper. It builds dense, photorealistic maps at ~30 fps using “Gaussian splats,” enabling AR,…
NCC's Blueprint for Climate Resilience
At COP30, we look to places that have lived with heat for millennia. AUB Nature Conservation Center director Yaser Abunnasr explains how Middle Eastern indigenous knowledge—embedded in architecture,…
Hitting Paydirt in the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance
AUB’s Dr. Antoine Abou Fayad takes us from Lebanese fields to the lab bench to explain how his team uncovered four antibiotic-producing Streptomyces strains—three likely brand-new to science—and why…
AI Unlocks Ancient Egyptian Life
On Elephantine Island—where it rains as rarely as once a decade—archaeobotanist Dr. Claire Malleson uses exquisitely preserved seeds, pods, and plant fragments to piece together how ordinary…
Toxic Power, Rising Risk
Lebanon’s reliance on ~35,000 diesel generators—8–10k in Beirut alone—may be fueling one of the world’s highest bladder cancer rates. Dr. Hassan Dhaini (AUB Faculty of Health Sciences) explains his…
When Roads Get Hacked
A tiny sticker on a stop sign can fool an autonomous vehicle’s vision—no laptop needed. Professor Ali Chehab (American University of Beirut) explains a new “seatbelt for perception”: a model-agnostic…
Microscopic Sand, Massive Pollution Solution
Release date: September 10, 2025Guest: Dr. Digambara Patra (American University of Beirut), Nanochemistry & Environmental RemediationEpisode SummaryResearchers are tackling a massive health…
Smarter Modeling Brings Geothermal Within Reach
Release date: September 10, 2025Guest: Prof. Elsa Maalouf, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering & Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB)Episode overviewGeothermal can heat in winter…
Rebuilding Trust in Institutions in the Middle East
Air date: September 10, 2025Guest: Simon Neaime, Professor of Economics, American University of Beirut (AUB)Episode SummaryAcross parts of the Middle East, daily life often unfolds as if the state is…
AUB on the Path to Cure an ‘Incurable’ Cancer
In this compelling episode, we delve into a quiet revolution happening in Lebanon that’s sending ripples across the global oncology community. Dr. Ali Bazarbachi, a physician-scientist at the…
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