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EPISODE · Jan 5, 2026 · 43 MIN

Growing the Future: Professor Meredith Silberstein on Engineered Living Materials

from Big Red Podcast 🐻🎙️ · host Tony Chen ’12

Professor Meredith Silberstein started Cornell's Engineered Living Materials Institute!! we chatted about:- the power of biology in creating materials, to improve everyday life- interdisciplinary research, collaborating between different colleges- how to build a research institute, with an exciting research platform(0:00) what are engineered living materials (7:39) culture of scientific creativity (10:37) interdisciplinary collaboration at Cornell (17:25) how to think up new projects (21:38) commonality between projects (26:08) how biology builds a new house (31:57) how Cornell encourages collaboration (35:26) build up the reputation of institute (40:02) bronze age, iron age, biomaterial age (42:27) closing question

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