Driven to Discover
A podcast that explores innovative University at Buffalo research through candid conversations with the researchers about their inspirations and goals.
Episodes
17 episodes
Changing 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 caus...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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16:09
Bitemark Evidence with Mary Bush
Obsessed with true crime shows as a teen, Mary Bush naturally gravitated toward forensics as a young professor in the University at Buffalo’s School of Dental Medicine. Today, she is widely acclaimed for her efforts to banish bitemark evidence ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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14:42
Animal Genes and Human Health with Vincent Lynch
As a kid, all Vincent Lynch wanted to do was hang out by the river near his home, fishing and crabbing and playing in the muck. School, by contrast, was a bore. Then he discovered biology—and never looked back. Today, as an evolutionary biologi...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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17:41
Narcissism in the Workplace with Emily Grijalva
Narcissists get a bad rap, but is it deserved? According to Emily Grijalva, an associate professor of organizational behavior at the University at Buffalo School of Management and a renowned expert on narcissism, it’s complicated. Grijalva has ...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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21:17
Medication Overload with David Jacobs
More than 750 older Americans are hospitalized every day due to severe side effects from their medications. Many of them will die prematurely as a result. In this episode of Driven to Discover, host Laurie Kaiser talks to David Jacobs, an assis...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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18:01
Nutrition and Cancer with Danielle Meyer
Food has become an increasingly fraught subject in America. Is paleo good for you? Keto? Should everyone be intermittent fasting? Meanwhile, an increasing number of Americans under 50 are being diagnosed with cancer, particularly colon cancer. ...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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18:53
Preventing Gun Violence with Patricia Logan-Greene
When social work researcher Patricia Logan-Greene sought out introductory readings for her students on the topic of gun violence, she was shocked to f...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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18:31
Detecting Deception with Mark Frank
Working nights during college as a bouncer, Mark Frank discovered he could learn a lot about people by observing their facial expressions and body language. Now, as a pr...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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19:24
AI for Social Good with Jinjun Xiong
Jinjun Xiong was a young computer scientist working...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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19:08
Cannabis Legalization with R. Lorraine Collins
There are few people more qualified to weigh in on the legalization of cannabis than psychologist R. Lorraine Coll...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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19:16
Free Speech and the Supreme Court with Samantha Barbas
Most Americans take free speech for granted. In her new book, “Actual Malice: Civil Rights and Freedom of the Press in New York Times v. Sullivan,” legal historian Samantha Barbas illustrates precisely why we shouldn’t. In this episode of Drive...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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19:57
Opioid-Free Pain Relief with Arin Bhattacharjee
Effective, 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
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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17:27
Teaching Black History with LaGarrett King
As a young boy, LaGarrett King loved history, but he couldn’t figure out where he fit in the narrative he was being taught at school, nor how enslaved peo...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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19:42
Forever Chemicals with Diana Aga
Diana Aga decided to become an environmental chemist after witnessing the dire effects of industrialization and population growth on the idyllic villag...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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17:14
Climate Resiliency with Nick Rajkovich
Nicholas Rajkovich, associate professor of architecture and director of the Resilient Buildings Lab at U...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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14:47