Hoos in STEM
STEM Advisor to the Provost at the University of Virginia
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S4 UVA’s Olympic Champions: The Data Behind Olympic Greatness
In this episode of HOOS in STEM, we sit down with UVA’s Olympic gold medalists and world-record-holding swimmers Claire Curzan, Kate Douglass, Gretchen Walsh, and their legendary coach Todd DeSorbo.…
S4 Kent Yagi and the Ripples of Spacetime
In this episode of HOOS in STEM, we speak with Kent Yagi, UVA Professor of Physics, whose work explores the deepest mysteries of gravity and spacetime. From Einstein’s century-old prediction of…
S4 Anton Korinek and the Economics of Artificial Intelligence
In this episode of HOOS in STEM, we speak with Anton Korinek, UVA Professor of Economics and Public Policy and one of TIME Magazine’s 100 most influential people in AI. A decade into exploring AI’s…
S4 Modeling Life Itself: Madhav Marathe and the Science of Biocomplexity
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Madhav Marathe, Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of UVA’s Biocomplexity Institute. Dr. Marathe leads one of UVA’s most interdisciplinary research hubs…
S4 Jennifer Morse’s Unlikely Path to Combinatorics
In this episode of HOOS in STEM, we spoke with Jennifer Morse, UVA Professor of Mathematics, whose path to combinatorics defied expectations. Raised on a dairy farm in Vermont, Jennifer’s journey…
S3 Storytelling in STEM: A Bonus from The Story Collider with Scott Acton
In this special bonus episode, we share a live story told by Professor Scott Acton, chair of UVA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Recorded at Carr’s Hill as part of our ongoing…
S3 Breaking Down Brain Cancer with Prof. Harald Sontheimer
Dr. Sontheimer is the department chair, professor, mentor, biotechnology founder, and textbook author behind a recent revolution in the emerging field of cancer neuroscience: a series of breakthrough…
S3 Rethinking Learning in an AI Era: UVA’s Digital Education Revolution
Dr. Kemi Jona, UVA’s Vice Provost for Online Education and Digital Innovation, sits down with us to explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping education and the workplace. We explore the future…
S3 Shaping the Future of Medicine: Mark Esser’s Vision for UVA’s Manning Institute
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Mark Esser, the inaugural Chief Scientific Officer of UVA’s new Paul and Diane Manning Institute of Biotechnology. Dr. Esser, a renowned expert in immunology and…
S3 UVA’s Class of 2025: Great and Good Leaders in Science
To celebrate their graduation from UVA, student producers Katie Nichols and Reeya Verma interviewed four exceptional Hoos in STEM. They welcome astrophysicist, historian, and Rhodes Scholar Sam…
S3 Spacewalks and Hypotheses- Personal Stories with Story Collider!
This Spring, UVA welcomed the Story Collider team back to Charlottesville for the third year running. During a special recording at Carr's Hill, four UVA STEM leaders told personal stories about…
S3 The Award Winning Scientists Shaping the Future of Recovery
In this episode, we’re diving into the groundbreaking research of UVA’s 2024 Edlich-Henderson Innovators of the Year: Professors Silvia Blemker and Craig Meyer from the Department of Biomedical…
S3 Sally Pusede Brings Satellite Data Down to Earth
We are lucky to be joined by yet another one of UVA’s own 2025 PECASE recipients, Sally Pusede, an Associate Professor in the Dept. of Environmental Sciences. Although she has been officially honored…
S3 An Engineering Powerhouse: Meet UVA's Newest Presidential Honorees
Three faculty members of the UVA School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, James (Jimmy) Burns, Coleen Carrigan, and Liheng Cai, join the show to discuss their research and the path that led them…
S3 The LaCross Institute’s Mission to Advance AI Ethics
How can we ensure that the AI we build is trustworthy? Responsible? An agent of the great and good, even as their rapidly increasing capabilities continue to astonish us? Thanks to the generous…
S3 Cosmic Simulations with Dr. Paul Torrey and his AI Copilot
Scientists have begun to leverage the power of AI to help us better understand the formation and dynamics of the universe. Paul Torrey is a computational astrophysicist with a research focus on the…
S2 Dr. John Lukens' Journey from T Cells to the Brain
Only about a decade ago did scientists discover the immense potential of leveraging the immune system to combat neurodegenerative diseases. Professor of Neuroscience John Lukens played an integral…
S2 Inside the UVA Dept. with 10,000 Students: Chemistry, under Dr. Jill Venton
This week, we dive into the heart of UVA’s chemistry department with Jill Venton, its chair and the Thomas Jefferson Professor of Chemistry. She tells us about the fascinating study and synthesis of…
S2 Trailblazing the Future of National Security and Data Policy with Phil Potter
On this episode, we welcome Phil Potter, a professor of politics and public policy in the Batten School. We discuss the past, present, and future of national security, as well as UVA’s $20 million…
S2 The Wide World of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Scott Acton
On this episode, we welcome Scott Acton the chair of UVA’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Arriving at UVA in 2000, Scott has worked on countless projects and seen first-hand how…
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