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  • Joyce Hwang on Multispecies Design
    2/4/25
    As a young girl growing up in suburban Los Angeles, Joyce Hwang loved seeing how urban animals would create little moments of disorder in the highly manicured landscape. Now the intersection between animals and the built environment is at the very heart of her work as a professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo and as director of the ecologically focused practice Ants of the Prairie. Hwang’s projects, from bat towers to bee elevators to multispecies installations, have been on display throughout the world and have won multiple awards. In this episode, she talks to host David Hill about incorporating animals into our constructed spaces—what it entails, why it’s critical (for us as well as them), and what everyday people can do to make their homes and yards more accommodating to our non-human friends.
  • Henry Louis Taylor Jr. on Changing the Black East Side
    12/3/24
    As a clinical audiologist, Henry Louis Taylor Jr. wondered why his Black patients faced starkly different socioeconomic realities than his white patients. So he became an urban historian and planner, and now seeks to reform a neighborhood development system rooted in inequities. In this episode, he discusses his most ambitious effort yet: The East Side Neighborhood Transformation Project.
  • Mary Bush on Bitemark Evidence
    10/29/24
    Obsessed with true crime shows as a teen, Mary Bush naturally gravitated toward forensics as a young dental school professor. In this episode, she talks about her efforts to banish bitemark evidence from the U.S. court system, how she copes with the emotional toll of victim identification, and what it was like to appear on Netflix’s hit show “Unsolved Mysteries.”
  • Emily Grijalva on Narcissism in the Workplace
    9/3/24
    Emily Grijalva’s first seminar as a PhD student in organizational behavior got her hooked on the subject of narcissism. Now a renowned expert, Grijalva has studied the complicated personality trait from every angle. In this episode, she tells us why narcissism isn’t all bad, why it’s more common in men and what to do if you have a narcissistic boss.

The views and opinions expressed by faculty in commentary to news media are based on their scholarship and/or research and do not represent the official positions of the University at Buffalo.