Professors at Work

Professors at Work

11 episodes

Rami G. Khouri interviews AUB scholars about how their research findings clarify our world's mechanics and mysteries.

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Teaching young students science, nature…and civil argumentation

Published: July 17, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 35 seconds

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Cancer detection and protection…from the lab to the world

Published: July 10, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 38 seconds

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The magical effect of writing and reading poetry

Published: July 3, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 41 seconds

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The Ukraine war’s real impact on food security in the ME and globally

Published: June 26, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 13 seconds

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An AUB literary & arts journal “touches the human condition”

Published: June 19, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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From the English Department…resisting to escape the legacy of imperialism

Published: June 12, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 37 seconds

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A philosopher wrestles with how we alleviate harm

Published: May 30, 2022, 10 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 15 seconds

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“Proximate politics”, where Arab citizens and state interact locally

Published: May 15, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 33 seconds

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“I can’t breathe!” Racism, colonialism, and corrupt governance as global public health threats

Published: May 8, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 33 seconds

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Lebanon the weak, cannibalized state whose citizens still hope

Published: May 1, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 49 seconds

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Journalism’s best practices – across cultures, eras, and media

Published: April 24, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 50 seconds

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Can evidence-based policy analysis fix Lebanon’s electricity collapse?

Published: April 17, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 47 seconds

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Impossible friendships in pre-1948 Jerusalem

Published: April 10, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 48 seconds

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Analyzing crisis impact and response in Lebanon

Published: April 3, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 7 seconds

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The World Cup's impact on Qatar and its relations

Published: March 27, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds

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The invisible sea is a place of floating democratic politics

Published: March 20, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 54 seconds

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The nutritionist advises us: nourish both our body and mind

Published: March 13, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 52 seconds

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What we have learned about hiring, promoting and retaining women leaders in business

Published: March 6, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 33 seconds

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Protecting nature, with Fairuz songs and small wins on urban balconies.

Published: Feb. 27, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 2 seconds

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How to handle the mental health pandemic that follows COVID?

Published: Feb. 20, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 44 seconds

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What does a virology and immunology professor do when a new virus hits?

Published: Feb. 13, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 24 seconds

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Do neighboring countries in the Middle East promote economic growth?

Published: Feb. 6, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 39 seconds

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Monitoring, modelling, and protecting our precious groundwater

Published: Jan. 30, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 18 seconds

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Are snake robots in your future?

Published: Jan. 23, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 43 seconds

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Economic failures rooted in political weakness stymie Lebanon’s future

Published: Jan. 16, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 19 seconds

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Gloves, socks, rings, and shirts that measure blood sugar and cancer? Made at AUB.

Published: Jan. 9, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 11 seconds

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Research, advocacy & empowerment battle maternal health and sexuality threats

Published: Jan. 2, 2022, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 40 seconds

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Capturing carbon dioxide…and saving Life on Earth?

Published: Dec. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds

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Teaching resistance and identity in Arab-American poetry

Published: Dec. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 56 seconds

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Research & action to reduce homicide-suicides during stressful times

Published: Nov. 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 9 seconds

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Why some corporate CEO successions are smoother than others

Published: Nov. 21, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 19 seconds

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How AUB labs help keep Lebanese safe as they eat

Published: Nov. 14, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Addressing “period poverty” via engineering, social justice, and environmental sustainability

Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 24 seconds

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Defining and expanding the frontiers of “digital health”

Published: Oct. 31, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 25 seconds

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Understanding the links between our eating and diseases

Published: Oct. 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 25 seconds

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Pioneering new ways of learning by experience

Published: Oct. 17, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 9 seconds

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The journey from pathology in mice to reducing tobacco use worldwide

Published: Oct. 10, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 57 seconds

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Understanding the crisis in the nursing work environment

Published: Oct. 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 36 seconds

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The endless agony of Arab states and their political constructs

Published: Sept. 26, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 27 seconds

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Documentary theater, spaces of joy, and the responsibility of artists

Published: Sept. 19, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 42 seconds

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She leads genes, cells, and molecules into battle against rare childhood diseases

Published: Sept. 12, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 36 seconds

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Do Baghdad checkpoints clarify aspects of Arab identity and statehood?

Published: Sept. 5, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 23 seconds

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Danger and abuse accompany Syrian refugee child laborers

Published: Aug. 29, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 19 seconds

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Humbled, and always learning from the virus

Published: Aug. 22, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 19 seconds

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Here’s how universities learn to channel knowledge into quality public policies

Published: Aug. 15, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Reconsidering relations among Greeks, Arabs, science and philosophy

Published: Aug. 8, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 2 seconds

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Water pipes, diesel generators, electronic cigarettes, and other aerosols facts…

Published: Aug. 1, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 36 seconds

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Do religion and social sciences need a deeper dialog?

Published: July 25, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 1 second

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Most Arab education standards are low, and stagnant. Here’s how to raise them.

Published: July 18, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 26 seconds

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Are better language metaphors a route to more effective science teaching?

Published: July 11, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 58 seconds

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Making fish and animal food...from restaurant waste

Published: July 4, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 21 seconds

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Time travel in gender and women studies

Published: June 27, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 1 second

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Are cash grants to Syrian refugees effective social assistance?

Published: June 20, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 51 seconds

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University expertise helps reconstruct and recover a city -- and citizens' dignity

Published: June 6, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 34 seconds

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What do we learn from the failure of last century's decolonization and non-aligned movements?

Published: May 30, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 45 seconds

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Power, politics and policy in the Arab region's inefficient food systems

Published: May 23, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 56 seconds

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Why should an engineering major study philosophy or history?

Published: May 16, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 5 seconds

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Better health by changing government tobacco policy and individual behavior.

Published: May 9, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 55 seconds

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Sa’dallah Wannous and the many dimensions of Arab theatre

Published: May 2, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 1 second

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How health expertise crosses borders & disciplines

Published: April 25, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 7 seconds

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Can Arab civil society influence policy-making?

Published: April 18, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 39 seconds

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After Beirut port cataclysm, how urban planners engage shattered communities

Published: April 14, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 12 seconds

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Understanding the climate, water, citizens & and governance dynamic

Published: April 11, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 14 seconds

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When water, energy, food, and health converge`

Published: April 7, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 49 seconds

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Early marriage, health vulnerabilities, and refugee young girls

Published: April 4, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 51 seconds

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Green Shaped Buildings

Published: March 31, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 10 seconds

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Transformative life experiences through community work

Published: March 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 15 seconds

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Breaking the Logjam of Arab Political Elites

Published: March 24, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 44 seconds

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"Knowledge Is Power" -- Promoting dignified work for Arab women, and human rights for all

Published: March 21, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 57 seconds

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Mental health in unhealthy times

Published: March 17, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 35 seconds

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Why Arab Ruling Elites Survive Mass Protests

Published: March 14, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 3 seconds

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In the Eye of the Pandemic

Published: March 10, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 28 seconds

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Redefining International Relations from the Global South

Published: March 7, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 31 seconds

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How To Recycle Building Waste

Published: March 3, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds

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Harnessing the power of satellites to feed the Middle East

Published: Feb. 28, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 19 minutes 40 seconds

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How much has the Arab region moved to gender equality in recent decades?

Published: Feb. 21, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 17 seconds

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People-Centered Recovery After the Beirut Blast

Published: Feb. 9, 2021, 5 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 58 seconds

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