This Week on The Academic Minute (2025.04.14)

This Week on The Academic Minute 2025.04.14

Monday

Gabe Kwong, the Robert A. Milton associate professor of biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech University, examines how finding the right treatment for cancer is difficult at times, and computing power may help us with this goal.

Tuesday

Sarah Kakadellis, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Food Science and Technology at the University of California, Davis, explains why federal food waste reduction goals are proving hard for states to meet.

Wednesday

Jasmine Loveland, Lise Meitner postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vienna, determines what birds can teach us about testosterone.

Thursday

Anita Rao, Beyer Family associate professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, tells us why food labels on products may not be telling the whole story.

Friday

Peter Serles, Schmidt Science Fellow at the California Institute of Technology, looks to machine learning and 3d printing to make planes for efficient in the future.