Tech Nation with Moira Gunn
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Dr. Moira Gunn is the host of Public Radio's Tech
Nation, where she has conducted over 2,000 interviews with space pioneers
and cyber-novelists, venture capitalists and genetics researchers, teachers
and technophobes. A former NASA scientist and engineer, Dr. Gunn is a
Member of the Board of Directors of the Tech Museum of Innovation and
the Tech Awards' Global Leadership Council, and has served as a member
of the Awards Selection Committee for the Space Technology Hall of Fame.
The first woman to earn a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue
University, she also holds advanced degrees in Computer Science and a
software technical patent. Dr. Gunn is regularly asked to speak on the
Impact of Technology on Society, on the Current and Projected State of
Global Technology Penetration, and on her experience as a Woman in Technology,
Science and Engineering.
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Dr. Moira Gunn learns how the war against cancer has moved from the microscope to the computer from University of California at Santa Cruz professor, David Haussler.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Steven Naifeh, about new insights into biology from the pages of his new book, Van Gogh: The Life.
Dr. Moira Gunn gets a glimpse into cabinet meetings at #10 Downing street from UK Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, and then hosts the annual biotech industry wrap-up with CEO of Burrill & Co, Steve Burrill.
Dr. Moira Gunn looks at Science Journalism in 2011 with Purdue University Laureates Clive Cookson, Science Editor of the Financial Times of London, former Editor-in-Chief of Nature Neuroscience, Sandra Aamodt and Keith Devlin, the Math Guy from NPR.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks about the life of explorer, George Mallory and his conquest of Everest with National Geographic's Explorer-in-Residence & Anthropologist, Wade Davis.
Dr. Moira Gunn catches up with Calimmune CEO, Louis Breton and learns how they are looking at treating HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns about opportunities for non-profits from author and Senior Vice President for Edelman Digital, Brian Reich from his new book, Shift and Reset: Strategies for Addressing Serious Issues in a Connected Society.
Dr. Moira Gunn gets a crash course in identifying biomarkers and what can are doing in personalized medicine from Amgen Vice President for Medical Sciences, David Reese.
Dr. Moira Gunn talks with author and Duke professor, Cathy Davidson about what happens when you hand every incoming Freshmen a free ipod and her new book, Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn.
Dr. Moira Gunn learns how mutations caused cancer from Nobel Prize winner, Michael Bishop and Genetech chairman, Art Levinson.
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