About this podcast
Host Ken Ono, STEM Advisor to the Provost, keeps his finger on the pulse of scientific and technological innovation at UVA. Hoos in STEM showcases the marvelous cornucopia of STEM at UVA, from the latest innovations to growth inside and outside the classroom.
Our theme music is CPU by Apples in Stereo.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 51 episodes
- UVA’s Olympic Champions: The Data Behind Olympic Greatness · 40 min · Season 4In 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…
- Kent Yagi and the Ripples of Spacetime · 41 min · Season 4In 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…
- Anton Korinek and the Economics of Artificial Intelligence · 46 min · Season 4In 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…
- Modeling Life Itself: Madhav Marathe and the Science of Biocomplexity · 40 min · Season 4In 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…
- Jennifer Morse’s Unlikely Path to Combinatorics · 35 min · Season 4In 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…
- Storytelling in STEM: A Bonus from The Story Collider with Scott Acton · 12 min · Season 3In 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…
- Breaking Down Brain Cancer with Prof. Harald Sontheimer · 53 min · Season 3Dr. Sontheimer is the department chair, professor, mentor, biotechnology founder, and textbook author behind a recent revolution in the emerging field of cancer neuroscience: a…
- Rethinking Learning in an AI Era: UVA’s Digital Education Revolution · 50 min · Season 3Dr. 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…
- Shaping the Future of Medicine: Mark Esser’s Vision for UVA’s Manning Institute · 41 min · Season 3In 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…
- UVA’s Class of 2025: Great and Good Leaders in Science · 44 min · Season 3To celebrate their graduation from UVA, student producers Katie Nichols and Reeya Verma interviewed four exceptional Hoos in STEM. They welcome astrophysicist, historian, and…
- Spacewalks and Hypotheses- Personal Stories with Story Collider! · 23 min · Season 3This 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…
- The Award Winning Scientists Shaping the Future of Recovery · 34 min · Season 3In 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…
- Sally Pusede Brings Satellite Data Down to Earth · 36 min · Season 3We 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…
- An Engineering Powerhouse: Meet UVA's Newest Presidential Honorees · 46 min · Season 3Three 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…
- The LaCross Institute’s Mission to Advance AI Ethics · 37 min · Season 3How 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…
- Cosmic Simulations with Dr. Paul Torrey and his AI Copilot · 42 min · Season 3Scientists 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…
- Dr. John Lukens' Journey from T Cells to the Brain · 43 min · Season 2Only about a decade ago did scientists discover the immense potential of leveraging the immune system to combat neurodegenerative diseases. Professor of Neuroscience John Lukens…
- Inside the UVA Dept. with 10,000 Students: Chemistry, under Dr. Jill Venton · 34 min · Season 2This 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…
- Trailblazing the Future of National Security and Data Policy with Phil Potter · 36 min · Season 2On 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…
- The Wide World of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Scott Acton · 30 min · Season 2On 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…
