Tech Nation with Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn is the host of Public Radio's Tech
Nation, where she has conducted over 2,000 interviews with space pioneers
and cyber-novelists, venture capitalists and genetics researchers, teachers
and technophobes. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation and
the Tech Awards' Global Leadership Council, and has served as a member
of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, she also holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and a
software technical patent. Dr. Gunn is regularly asked to speak on the
Impact of Technology on Society, on the Current and Projected State of
Global Technology Penetration, and on her experience as a Woman in Technology,
Science and Engineering.
Between 2004 and 2012 The Conversations Network published 748 podcast episodes
of Technation. Look for them and more-recent programs on the
Tech Nation website (http://technation.com).
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Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author Jeremy Rifkin about European energy conservation and what there is to be learned from it from his new book, The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Scientific Director from the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University, where they have learned how to make blood from skin cells.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns new information about the life and death of the 20th U.S. President, James A Garfield, from Candice Millard, author of Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President.
Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, shows Dr. Moira Gunn just how much biotechnology is already working in health care.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns how a group from Purdue University studied the brains of local football players and landed on the cover of Sports Illustrated, from Team Lead, Tom Talavage.
Dr. Moira Gunn recaps the MacArthur Awards with columnist and author, David Ewing Duncan and learns how biotech and science came out in the mix.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and representative for the California 11th congressional district, Jerry McNeaney about his vision for a Clean Energy Nation.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the latest treatments for cancer with John Beadle, CEO of PsiOxus Therapeutics and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals President, John Maraganore.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about how to innovate on a shoestring budget with Author and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School, Eric Ries.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about a new approach to delivering immuno-suppressants to organ transplant recipients with Veloxis Pharmaceuticals CEO, Bill Polvino.
