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...
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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...
Who Experiences Trauma During Parent-Child Separations at the Border?
TRANSCRIPT In the context of what’s going on right now with immigration and what ICE agents are doing in terms of separating families, I honestly don’t know if we can even know how painful that must...
ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵAPP Food Scientists Pioneer New Food Safety Techniques
TRANSCRIPT We use a technology called pulsed-light processing for inactivating microorganisms in various food products. This is a broad-spectrum light with wavelength range ranging from 100 to 1,100...
A Breakthrough in Understanding Chlamydia, the World’s Most Prevalent STD
TRANSCRIPT In a recent study that was published by my lab, we discovered how is it that Chlamydia trachomatis obtains its energy and its relationship with the host cell. Chlamydia trachomatis is the...