Podcasts by Escape Velocity
Podcast by USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Episode 5: "I Am Not A Unicorn" from 2021-10-19T21:10:26
The 30+ year journey of a Black engineer in K-12 education – featuring Dr. Darin Gray
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Episode 4 "The Equity Scholar-Practitioner" from 2021-03-09T22:46:29
Dr. Brandi Jones, vice dean for diversity and strategic initiatives at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, speaks about her life's work, the people who have shaped her and those whose lives she ...
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Episode 3 "The Black Engineering Student Experience" from 2020-09-14T21:54:16
Episode 3 "The Black Engineering Student Experience" by USC Viterbi School of Engineering
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Episode 2 "Race and Leadership in Academia" from 2020-09-01T00:19:41
An intimate conversation at the intersection of race, STEM and academia with two legendary Black leaders: Dr. Wanda Austin, retired CEO of Aerospace Corporation and former President of USC, and Dr....
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Episode 1 "Conversations with Black Faculty" from 2020-08-24T17:17:48
Dr. Timothy Pinkston and Dr. Stacey Finley, two pastor's kids who became leading figures in STEM, talk about the burdens of being first and how their experiences in academia have been shaped by bei...
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Episode 6 “Trapped By The Brain" from 2017-10-26T16:14:01
Every day, we do thousands of movements that we take for granted. But what if our bodies were a prison? Who would unlock it for us? At four months old, following a severe brain injury, Ralph Hernan...
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Episode 5 "Kate 2600" from 2017-05-03T20:36:48
Based on the contemporary research of USC Viterbi professor Burcin Becerik-Gerber, KATE 2600 transports us to New Amsterdam — a futuristic city where buildings are not inanimate but sentient beings...
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Episode 4 "The Love Algorithm" from 2017-02-14T15:57:47
Musician and composer Wil Brumbach, goes on a search for love enlisting the help of some powerful matchmakers - engineers. He tests the hypothesis of a love formula through highly scientific means ...
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Episode 3 "Cancer In The Time of Algorithms" from 2016-09-29T13:00:04
Machine learning expert Greg Ver Steeg and computational biologist Shirley Pepke search for a way to personalize ovarian cancer treatment. For Pepke, the answers can’t come fast enough.
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Episode 2 "The Escape Of Bogdan Marcu" from 2016-06-05T14:31:11
On July 20, 1969, from behind the Iron Curtain in communist Romania, ten-year-old Bogdan Marcu watched Neil Armstrong take the first step on the moon. That moment unleashed a space dream and a chai...
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Episode 1 "Acoustic Museums" from 2016-02-13T17:27:53
An international, trans-disciplinary team of researchers travels to Thessaloniki, Greece to capture the ethereal sounds of ancient Byzantine churches and collect the "Google Earth" of sound.
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