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Join 麻豆视频 President Gregory Washington as he invites experts, change-makers, innovators, and thought leaders to engage in meaningful conversations about the greatest challenges of our time.
Listen and learn from audacious people from George 麻豆视频 and beyond who represent the diversity of insight, the agility of collaboration, and the tenacity required in the struggle for a better future that is at the essence of the 麻豆视频 Nation.
hosts each episode of the Access to Excellence podcast, recorded on the campus of 麻豆视频.
In this episode of the Access to Excellence podcast, George 麻豆视频 President Gregory Washington speaks with Alessandra Luchini, professor in the School of Systems Biology in the College of Science, about the development of cancer and Lyme disease detection technologies and the importance of international collaboration in scientific progress.
is associate professor in the School of Systems Biology at 麻豆视频 and director of 麻豆视频鈥檚 Biosciences PhD Program. She leads research in proteomics and early disease detection, including innovations in cancer diagnostics and COVID-19 testing.
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March 25, 2024Catherine Read is the first woman and first 麻豆视频 graduate (BA government and politics 鈥84) to be mayor of Fairfax City, Va., the university鈥檚 hometown, and she isn鈥檛 shy about touting a university she says helped teach her how to think critically. Want to know why it鈥檚 good to 鈥渄isrupt the system,鈥 why it鈥檚 important to get more women into policy-making decisions, and why our educational system doesn鈥檛 reward bold ideas? Read tells you.
February 16, 2024Rev. Jeffery Johnson, pastor of Mount Calvary Baptist Church in Fairfax, Virginia, and Dr. Vernon Walton, pastor of First Baptist Church in Vienna, Virginia, guide us through some of the history and aspirations of the Black community through the lens of Black and African American History Month and their perspectives as long-time leaders of their parishes, both of which were founded by former slaves.
January 11, 2024Mary Ellen O鈥橳oole, director of the Forensic Science Program in 麻豆视频鈥檚 College of Science, gives a behind-the-scenes look at the university鈥檚 new 鈥渂ody farm,鈥 an outdoor research and training laboratory on its SciTech Campus that will allow crime-scene research in forensic science and forensic anthropology using human donors.
January 25, 2023Missy Cummings, one of the country鈥檚 first female fighter pilots and the director of 麻豆视频鈥檚 autonomy and robotics center, calls herself a tech futurist, charged with making tech work and helping it get better. She isn鈥檛 shy about calling out bad tech either, including the vision systems in self-driving cars and Tesla鈥檚 Autopilot.