The Rising To The Challenge Podcast

The Rising To The Challenge Podcast

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Episode 6: Goodbye 2020!

Host Gwen Macsai visits with a professor spicing up Zoom classes with impersonations, two students using 3D printing to help the community, checks on the state of Illinois finances and gets a sound check with the director of the Marching Illini. 

Episode 5: COVID Trickle-Down Effects: The Good, The Bad, And The Ponies

Host Gwen Macsai visits with a family doctor who started a food pantry at the University of Illinois Chicago. Talks with an Engineering Professor about the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign’s development of the RapidVent and its potential. She then heads to the University o ...  Show more

Episode 4: Tech it or Leave It

Host Gwen Macsai breaks down some of the technology that the University of Illinois System is using to implement its COVID-19 mitigation plan. She takes a tour of the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab to follow saliva samples through the full process, then talks with Nigel Goldenfeld abo ...  Show more

Episode 3: Stressed to the Nines

Host Gwen Macsai visits an Emergency Room at the University of Illinois Chicago and talks with Dr. Janet Lin. Talks with Tara Powell, Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign School of Social Work. And speaks with Mark Wolters, a teaching professor at th ...  Show more

Episode 2: Testing, Testing 1, 2, 3 Testing

Host Gwen Macsai talks with Dr. Martin Burke from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign about developing the rapid saliva test, gets a look at the SHIELD Illinois Program with Ron Watkins from UIUC and learns how the University of Illinois Chicago is getting tests to the ...  Show more