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Driven to DiscoverChanging the Black East Side with Henry Louis Taylor Jr.As a young clinical audiologist, Henry Louis Taylor Jr. found that the socioeconomic realities of many of his Black patients affected his ability to help them. To truly serve his community, he realized, he would need to understand the root causes of their circumstances. So he quit his job and went back to school to study urban history. Now, as the founding director of UB’s Center for Urban Studies at the School of Architecture and Planning, and associate director of the Community Health Equity Research Institute at the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Taylor is on a...
2024-12-0316 min
Videnskab.dk PodcastTvangsarbejde, sult og frygt: Sådan var hverdagen for de danske jøder i TheresienstadtSilvia Goldbaum Tarbin har brugt mere end 15 år af sit på liv dansk Holocaust-historie - især på de 470 jøder, der i oktober 1943 blev deporteret til ghettoen Theresienstadt i det nuværende Tjekkiet.
Hun har interviewet 32 overlevende fanger og brugt tusindvis af timer på at grave deres vidnesbyrd frem. For arbejdet med de danske jøders hverdagsliv i Theresienstadt har Silvia Goldbaum Tarabini netop modtaget Kulturministeriets forskningspris, Julius Bomholt-prisen.
I hendes bog 'Danske jøders liv og død i Theresienstadt' bliver deres personlige historier fortalt for første gang nogensinde.
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2024-12-0232 minDriven to DiscoverOpioid-Free Pain Relief with Arin BhattacharjeeEffective, long-lasting, non-addictive pain relief—it sounds too good to be true. But thanks to the imagination (and perseverance) of University at Buffalo neuroscientist/pharmacologist Arin Bhattacharjee, it may be just around the corner. Bhattacharjee, a self-proclaimed “dreamer,” has developed a novel approach to pain, both acute and chronic, that could get FDA approval in as soon as two years. In this episode of Driven to Discover, host Ellen Goldbaum talks to Bhattacharjee about his journey from wannabe soccer pro to impassioned scientist, the research that led to a new understanding of pain, and the small yet powerful peptide that c...
2023-08-2917 min