What Will Whitaker Do?
TRANSCRIPT President Trump’s firing of Attorney General Sessions after the midterms surprised no one, but it gave rise to a host of legal and political issues that’ll be playing out in the next couple...
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The Kaplan Institute: Bold Ideas for an Innovative Future
TRANSCRIPT Peter Kilpatrick, Provost: The Kaplan Institute is really an idea. Integrative, interdisciplinary experiences that focus on making things and projects that address societal impact are an...
Design/Build Studio Creates Community Space for Puerto Rican Town
TRANSCRIPT Frank Flury, Design/Build Studio Educator: When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico last year, I was thinking it would be the perfect project for my Design/Build Studio. So one of our faculty...
What Does the GDP Mean for the Average Worker?
TRANSCRIPT GDP, or gross domestic product, is the measure of the value of all goods and services produced in the national economy over a given period of time. So the good news we just got of a 4.1...
Artifacts from Historic Mecca Flats Discovered on Mies Campus
TRANSCRIPT Ralph Pugh, University Archivist: We’re looking at the southwestern corner of Crown Hall’s block, which is being excavated to do some improvements with steam piping. And they uncovered the...
How Could Brett Kavanaugh’s Appointment Affect the Supreme Court?
TRANSCRIPT So the big question is where Judge Kavanaugh might differ on given cases from where Justice Kennedy, who’s stepping down, would come out in these cases. On a lot of cases I think we’re...
Artificial Pancreas: Developing Devices for the Future of Diabetes Care
TRANSCRIPT Ali Cinar, Professor and Director, Engineering Center for Diabetes Research and Education: The technologies used for managing diabetes have changed, and now the next step is the development...
Fighting Obesity by Growing More Fat Cells
TRANSCRIPT Basically what we’ve done is we’ve made a microfluidic model of lipocytes, or fat. There’s rising rates of obesity in the United States and worldwide, and everything needs an experimental...