Sustainable Nano

Professor Mike Curry of the North Carolina Agricultural & Technological State University (NCAT) is a scientist, inventor, mentor, and advocate with a passion for bringing attention to the great research that happens at Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs). In this episode we share an interview between Dr. Curry and Dr. Bob Hamers, Director of the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, discussing Dr. Curry's nanocellulose research and the process of bringing HBCUs and Primarily White Institutions (PWIs) together for meaningful collaboration. Mike & Bob [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2024/03/zoom-mike-bob.png] image shows Mike Curry (above) and Bob Hamers (below) during their Zoom call to record this interview Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page [http://podcast.sustainable-nano.com], or you can subscribe through Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sustainable-nano/id1152986256] or Overcast [https://overcast.fm/itunes1152986256/sustainable-nano], or listen on NSF's Science Zone Radio [https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/apps/]. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Related links: * Mike Curry:  CSN profile [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=20498], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-curry-myprimecareer/] * Bob Hamers:  CSN profile [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=18982], Lab website [https://hamersgroup.chem.wisc.edu/wordpress/] * Accounts of Chemical Research: Special Issue on Advancing Research at HBCUs [https://pubs.acs.org/toc/achre4/56/11] * NCAT Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering [https://jsnn.ncat.uncg.edu/], * Podcast episode 12: Making Sustainable Nanoparticles from Plants [https://podcast.sustainable-nano.com/episodes/d36ec468] with Mike Curry * Podcast episode 7: What Do Glaciers Have to Do with Nanoscience? [https://podcast.sustainable-nano.com/episodes/8ee904db] with Bob Hamers * CSN & Curry group alum Dr. Donald White [https://www.donaldwhitephd.com/] * Binghamton University Emerging Science & Technology Summit [https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/4323/binghamton-university-and-six-hbcus-forge-new-educational-and-research-alliance/] * NSF Ideas Lab: Advancing Research Capacity at HBCUs through Exploration and Innovation (ARC-HBCU) [https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/advancing-research-capacity-hbcus-through] * Recent patent: High-throughput synthesis of metallic nanoparticles [https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210261431A1/en] * The NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [http://susnano.wisc.edu] Interviewee: Mike Curry [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=20498] Interviewer: Bob Hamers [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=18982] Producer/Host: Miriam Krause [https://susnano.wisc.edu/our-team-members/dr-miriam-krause/] Music: PC III [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Music_for_a_Weary_World_Vol_1/2_The_Soft_Approach] and Dexter Britain [https://dexterbritain.bandcamp.com/album/creative-commons-volume-1] Left: blue globe logo of NSF. Right: green and blue logo of The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [https://susnano.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/NSF-CSN-banner.png] This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.

Early in the COVID pandemic, then-graduate student Safia Jilani became Twitter buddies with the Chief Editor of the prestigious journal Nature Chemistry, Dr. Stuart Cantrill. Dr. Jilani is now a Postdoctoral Fellow with the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, and Dr. Cantrill is now the Editorial Director for all of Nature's physics and chemistry journals... and they finally got the chance to meet in person last month! In this episode we bring you a conversation between these two chemists about the power and challenges of social media, the importance of mentorship, and being open to unforeseen career paths. Safia & Stuart [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/icecream.jpeg] image shows Stuart Cantrill (left) and Safia Jilani (right) enjoying ice cream in Cambridge Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page [http://podcast.sustainable-nano.com], or you can subscribe through Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sustainable-nano/id1152986256] or Stitcher [http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sustainable-nano], or listen on NSF's Science Zone Radio [https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/apps/]. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Related links: * Stuart Cantrill:  blog, [https://stuartcantrill.com/] BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/stuartcantrill.bsky.social] * Safia Jilani:  website [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=32003], BlueSky [https://bsky.app/profile/finetraces786.bsky.social] * Nature Chemistry: website [https://www.nature.com/nchem/], Twitter [https://twitter.com/NatureChemistry] * Nature Nanotechnology: website [https://www.nature.com/nnano/], Twitter [https://twitter.com/naturenano] * A Review and Critique of Academic Lab safety research [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0375-x] by Dana Ménard and John F. Trant. Nature Chemistry 2020, 12, 17-25. * The race to the bottom and the route to the top [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0410-y] by Dave K. Smith. Nature Chemistry 2020, 12, 101-103. (Professor_Dave on Twitter) [https://twitter.com/professor_dave] * A Diverse View of Science to Catalyse Change [https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0529-x] by César A. Urbina-Blanco, Safia Z. Jilani_,_ Isaiah R. Speight, Michael J. Bojdys, Tomislav Friščić, J. Fraser Stoddart, and colleagues. Nature Chemistry 2020, 12, 773-776 (note: this editorial was also co-published in 5 additional journals) * Ternary CoPtAu Nanoparticles as a General Catalyst for Highly Efficient Electro-Oxidation of Liquid Fuels [https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.201906137] by Junrui Li, Safia Jilani, & Colleagues. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 11527-11533. * Other folks mentioned in this episode: Junrui Li [https://twitter.com/JunruiLi], Michelle Muzzio [https://twitter.commichmuzz], RealTimeChem [https://twitter.com/RealTimeChem] and Jason Woolford [https://twitter.com/Doctor_Galactic], Martin Stoermer [https://bsky.app/profile/martinstoermer.bsky.social], American Chemical Society [https://acs.org], Royal Society of Chemistry [https://www.rsc.org/], BlackinChem [https://twitter.com/BlackInChem], ChemJobber [https://https://bsky.app/profile/chemjobber.bsky.social] * The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [http://susnano.wisc.edu] Interviewee: Stuart Cantrill [https://stuartcantrill.com/] Interviewer: Safia Jilani [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=32003] Producer/Host: Miriam Krause [https://susnano.wisc.edu/our-team-members/dr-miriam-krause/] Music: PC III [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Music_for_a_Weary_World_Vol_1/2_The_Soft_Approach] and Dexter Britain [https://dexterbritain.bandcamp.com/album/creative-commons-volume-1] Left: blue globe logo of NSF. Right: green and blue logo of The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nsf-csn-e1572383235986.png] This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.

Five years after our first interview, we catch up with Dr. Jason White about chemistry at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and how nanoscience can benefit agriculture and global food security. Graduate student Beza Tuga interviews Jason about his new role as Director of CAES and exciting research collaborations between CAES and the NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology. CSN at CAES [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/11/caes.png] image shows Beza Tuga (left) and the CSN team in Jason's office (L-R Jason White, Cheng-Hsin Huang, Wilanyi Alvarez Reyes, Beza Tuga, & Chaoyi Deng) Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page [http://podcast.sustainable-nano.com], or you can subscribe through Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sustainable-nano/id1152986256] or Stitcher [http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sustainable-nano], or listen on NSF's Science Zone Radio [https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/apps/]. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Related links: * Jason White:  website [https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/ABOUT-CAES/Staff-Biographies/Jason-C-White] * Beza Tuga:  website [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=29599], Twitter [https://twitter.com/BezaTuga] * Interview from 2017: Ep 17. Putting Science to Work for Society: A Visit to the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station [https://podcast.sustainable-nano.com/episodes/jasonwhite] * Podcast episode with Dr. Wade Elmer: Ep 25. Finding the Next Fix for the World's Problems: More from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station [https://podcast.sustainable-nano.com/episodes/wadeelmer] * Sustainable Nano blog post by CAES postdoc Dr. Yu Shen: Nanotechnology and Modern Agriculture [https://sustainable-nano.com/2020/04/02/nanotechnology-and-modern-agriculture/] * The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station podcast: Coast & Country [https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Publications/Publications/Podcasts-and-Videos] * The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Report: The State of Food and Agriculture 2022 [https://www.fao.org/3/cb9479en/online/cb9479en.html] * Undark magazine: In Connecticut, a Nanoscale Agricultural Experiment With Global Potential [https://undark.org/article/nanoscale-connecticut-agricultural-station/] by Jan Ellen Spiegel * The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [http://susnano.wisc.edu] Interviewee: Jason White [https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/ABOUT-CAES/Staff-Biographies/Jason-C-White] Interviewer: Beza Tuga [https://susnano.wisc.edu/team-member/?smid=29599/] Producer/Host: Miriam Krause [https://susnano.wisc.edu/our-team-members/dr-miriam-krause/] Music: PC III [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Music_for_a_Weary_World_Vol_1/2_The_Soft_Approach] and Dexter Britain [https://dexterbritain.bandcamp.com/album/creative-commons-volume-1] Left: blue globe logo of NSF. Right: green and blue logo of The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nsf-csn-e1572383235986.png] This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.

Mental Health Awareness Month was back in May, but it's never too late to talk about mental health and strategies for taking care of ourselves during difficult times. In this episode we share a discussion with psychiatrist Dr. Kaz Nelson called "Why we all feel so terrible and what to do about it." KazNelson [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/kaznelson.png] image shows a profile photo of Dr. Nelson Want more podcast episodes? You can find them all on our podcast page [http://podcast.sustainable-nano.com], or you can subscribe through Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/sustainable-nano/id1152986256] or Stitcher [http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/sustainable-nano], or listen on NSF's Science Zone Radio [https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/apps/]. ABOUT THIS EPISODE Related links: * Kaz Nelson:  website [https://med.umn.edu/bio/kaz-katharine-nelson], Twitter [https://twitter.com/kazjnelson] * The Mind Deconstructed Podcast [https://www.theminddeconstructed.org/] * The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow's Hierarchy [https://www.esperanzaproject.com/2021/native-american-culture/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/] * The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [http://susnano.wisc.edu] Interviewee: Kaz Nelson [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/kaznelson.png] Producer/Host: Miriam Krause [https://susnano.wisc.edu/our-team-members/dr-miriam-krause/] Editor: Jack Rahill Music: PC III [http://freemusicarchive.org/music/P_C_III/Music_for_a_Weary_World_Vol_1/2_The_Soft_Approach] and Dexter Britain [https://dexterbritain.bandcamp.com/album/creative-commons-volume-1] MentalHealthMeme [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/meme.png] MaslowHierarchy [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2023/06/maslow-skills.png] figure by by Nathalie Martinek with Khurram Jahangir. Model originally adapted by Eva Migdal   Left: blue globe logo of NSF. Right: green and blue logo of The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology [https://sustainablenano.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/nsf-csn-e1572383235986.png] This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, grant number CHE-2001611. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed on this podcast are those of the participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or the participating institutions.

We've got a great set of episodes for Season 6 following our themes of Nanotechnology, Sustainability, and Life in Science. Interviews include the founders of @BlackinNanotech [https://twitter.com/BlackinNanotech], Dr. Olivia Geneus and Jarriaun Streets; materials scientist Dr. Suveen Mathaudhu; [http://www.smathaudhu.com/] and psychiatrist Dr. Kaz Nelson [https://med.umn.edu/bio/kaz-katharine-nelson], plus others! Subscribe now so you won't miss an episode.