Upcoming episodes of听Buff Innovator Insights, a weekly podcast from the Research & Innovation Office (RIO), feature faculty tackling some of the toughest challenges facing the world today: global poverty and racism.
The Buff Innovator Insights podcast offers a behind-the-scenes look at some of the most ground-breaking innovations in the world鈥揳ll emanating from the CU Boulder campus鈥搕hrough the lens of听the personal journeys that made those discoveries possible.听听
Terri Fiez, Vice Chancellor for听Research & Innovation, hosts this up-close and personal look at how researchers, scholars and artists become global pioneers, why they are so dedicated to discovery, and their visions of the future in the wide range of fields they explore.听
New episodes air each Thursday through听May 6.听
Visit the Buff Innovator Insights podcast website听to learn more, listen and subscribe.
Upcoming Episodes
Airing Thursday, April 15: Evan Thomas鈥擟ivil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering; Aerospace Engineering; Mortenson Center
Meet Dr.听Evan Thomas, a professor of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering and Aerospace Engineering Sciences, and Director of the Mortenson Center in Global Engineering. In this episode, Dr. Thomas shares how his family鈥檚 interests in journalism, engineering and entrepreneurship, as well as his experiences with Engineering Without Borders, inspired him to tackle global poverty through his work and teaching.
Airing Thursday, April 22: Jennifer Ho鈥擡thnic Studies; Center for Humanities and the Arts
In this episode of Buff Innovator Insights, we meet Dr. Jennifer Ho, professor in the department of Ethnic Studies and the听director of the Center for Humanities and the Arts. Dr. Ho details how growing up in an Asian-American family, along with more recent societal and personal transformations, influenced her scholarship and emboldened her efforts to end racism.
Hosted by
Terri Fiez
Vice Chancellor for Research & Innovation
University of Colorado Boulder