Steven Laux joined UF in January 2017 after a 32-year career as a civil engineer including VP of Jones Edmunds, practicing in the fields of solid waste management system design and infrastructure design for the aerospace industry. He teaches courses in solid waste systems design, containment system design, civil engineering practice and construction engineering design. He works on the Sustainable Materials Management Research Laboratory led by Dr. Timothy Townsend. His research has focused on sustainable materials management, including beneficial reuse, recycling, and municipal solid waste landfill topics. He currently works on landfill leachate treatment lately, including experiments using reverse osmosis and a $13M constructed wetlands treatment system.Based on the transcript provided, here's the video outline with timestamps for the main topics of conversation:OUTLINE:0:00 - Intro1:36 - Journey of waste & landfills8:21 - Public & private waste management16:00 - Modern landfill design19:53 - Leachate collection & treatment26:03 - Deep well injection30:17 - Constructed wetlands40:04 - Waste-to-energy incineration47:58 - Beneficial reuse of ash56:33 - Phosphate gypsum challenges1:03:23 - Recycling process & markets1:16:00 - Climate change considerations1:24:36 - Industry to academia transition1:33:10 - GratefulnessEPISODE LINKS:UF Profile: https://essie.ufl.edu/people/name/steven-laux/Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QxBoNKkAAAAJ&hl=enPODCAST INFO:Spotify Episodes: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBXSpotify Creator Profile: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrespulido8/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Joe Glover became Interim Provost in September 2024, resuming his 15-year career as UF's chief academic officer after a brief period as provost of the University of Arizona.Glover served as UF Provost from 2008 to 2023. Prior to that appointment, his academic leadership positions at UF included interim provost, associate provost for academic affairs, and interim dean and associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Having arrived at UF in 1982 as an assistant professor in mathematics, he served as chair of the mathematics department from 1993 to 1998.OUTLINE:0:00 - Intro1:06 - Role of the provost3:32 - Rankings and performance metrics11:16 - Budget, tuition22:49 - UF’s mission and global talent28:59 - Who should go to college37:50 - Purpose of college in an AI era43:13 - Scholarship vs activism in DEI47:39 - GratefulnessEPISODE LINKS:UF Profile: https://aa.ufl.edu/about-the-office/leadership/dr-joseph-glover/Achievements: https://news.ufl.edu/2023/07/joe-glover-leaves-legacy-of-progress-at-uf/PODCAST INFO:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBXAnchor Website: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0SOCIAL:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrespulido8/Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Aladdin Alwisy, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Rinker School of Construction Management and the director of the Smart Industrialized Design and Construction (IDC) lab at the University of Florida. Dr. Alwaisy’s research interests lie in developing and assessing practices for the future of intelligent industrialized construction, such as robotics, sensing technologies, machine learning, augmented/virtual/mixed reality, simulation, and lean manufacturing to reduce the expense of the design, manufacturing process, and system control.

OUTLINE:0:00 - intro0:46 - Industrialized construction (IC)5:01 - Metrics for IC12:37 - Why increase "made in America" products?19:02 - Construction robotics compared to manufacturing robotics39:37 - Framing with an intelligent robotics arm 56:45 - Academic research and industry applications gap1:05:23 - Impact of advances in fundamental robotics in construction1:12:44 - Human robot collaboration

EPISODE LINKS:Dr. Alwisy's profile: https://dcp.ufl.edu/faculties/aladdin-alwisy/

Lab website: https://sites.google.com/view/smart-idc-lab/home

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Elias Sayour, M.D., PhD, is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and Pediatrics, as well as Principal Investigator of the RNA Engineering Laboratory, and Co-Leader of the UFHCC Cancer Therapeutics & Host Response.

OUTLINE:

0:00 - Intro

00:30 - What is cancer, how it presents in the body and its causes

17:26 - Treatments: chemo, T-cell, surgery

25:22 - Immunotherapy (vaccines)

32:10 - mRNA cancer vaccine

01:03:10 - Validation and verification of the research studies

01:10:58 - Goals of research and future vision

01:16:12 - Personal effect of diseases and death

01:20:16 - Gratefulness

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UF Health Profile: https://ufhealth.org/doctors/elias-sayour#prettyPhoto/1/

UF Profile: https://neurosurgery.ufl.edu/faculty-staff/research-faculty/elias-sayour/

Innovator of the year technology: https://ufinnovate.technologypublisher.com/bio.aspx?id=50682

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elias-Sayour

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Dr. Kent Fuchs was the head of the School of Engineering at Purdue University, then he became the dean and later provost at Cornell University. He then served for eight years as the president at the University of Florida and he is still at UF as a professor in electrical engineering. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Intro 01:15 - What does the president at a university do? 13:57 - His personality and philosophy in the presidency 19:13 - University rankings 31:28 - Is higher education declining? 38:14 - Meeting honors demands 42:38 - Political ideologies inside campus 51:46 - Influence of the state government in public universities 57:24 - Handling of the pandemic 01:05:36 - Censorship of professors 01:13:48 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Fuchs wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Fuchs Dr. Fuchs UF profile: https://president.ufl.edu/past-presidents/kent-fuchs/ PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Carlos de la Torre is Director of the UF Center for Latin American Studies. He was a fellow at the Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. His most recent books are The Routledge Handbook of Global Populism; Populisms a Quick Immersion, De Velasco a Correa: Insurreciones, populismo y elecciones en Ecuador, The Promise and Perils of Populism, Latin American Populism of the Twenty-First Century. Resarch interest: Populism, democratization, and authoritarianism; racism and citizenship in the Americas. Geographic expertise: Ecuador, Venezuela, Bolivia OUTLINE: 0:00 - what is populism? 5:30 - Give back power to the people9:53 - Restructuring institutions 13:01 - Psychology of a populist19:11 - Latin American Politics25:29 - Left and right politics. Should we fear populists? 30:45 - Javier Milei37:34 - Rafael Correa54:08 - Nicolas Maduro 56:14 - Evo Morales01:01:25 - Brasil, Lula, Jair Bolsonaro01:04:18 - Hugo Chavez01:09:56 - Lesson for the future 01:13:07 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. de la Torre's UF profile: https://www.latam.ufl.edu/people/center-based-faculty/carlos-de-la-torre/ Dr. de la Torre's Twitter: https://twitter.com/cdela_torre?lang=en Dr. de la Torre's books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Carlos-de-la-Torre/author/B001JO7X5G?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/

Dr. Imre Bartos received his PhD from Columbia University, where he subsequently remained as a lecturer and then research scientist, before joining the faculty at the University of Florida. His broad field of interest is multi-messenger astrophysics. He primarily studies extreme cosmic processes related to the formation and evolution of black holes. Dr. Bartos is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the LISA Consortium and is an associate member of the IceCube Collaboration. I apologize for Dr. Bartos' camera being low resolution. I normally have a better camera but for this interview it had been broken. I will have better quality for the next ones. Thank you for the patience. OUTLINE: 0:00 - Extreme events in space 02:56 - Black Holes 08:40 - How do we know black holes exist? 22:38 - Other messengers from space, gravitational waves 35:52 - Motivation for spending money on fundamental science 39:12 - LIGO & LISA, search for gravitational waves 43:01 - IceCube, search for neutrinos in south pole 46:08 - Fire Neural Networks 58:15 - Advice for students 01:00:10 - Gratefulness EPISODE LINKS: Dr. Barto’s profile: https://www.phys.ufl.edu/wp/index.php/people/faculty/imre-bartos/ Fire Neural Networks: https://www.fireneuralnetwork.com/hrl-mapping TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdjGGnscLdo LISA: https://www.elisascience.org/ LIGO: https://www.ligo.org/science/faq.php#what-is-ligo IceCube: https://icecube.wisc.edu/science/icecube/ PODCAST INFO: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7lIxLKAKO8pDt6vkmU7TBX Anchor: https://anchor.fm/andres-pulido5 Full episodes playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFn7Fn5wd5p-quHz_YdoxrUryu0MRP6d0 SOCIAL: Twitter: https://twitter.com/andrespulido28 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andres-a-pulido/