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Beyond Boundaries Podcast
by Robert Morgan
A podcast where we interview faculty, students, staff, and alums of the Beyond Boundaries series of courses and the Beyond Boundaries Program at Washington University in St Louis. In this podcast we aim to reach across the digital divide and highlight engaging stories told by Beyond Boundaries faculty and students at WashU and their ideas for future work and play. We hope to give you a window into what Beyond Boundaries is featuring the next generation of interdisciplinary thinkers and collaborators.
Episodes
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55: Loren Lacruz
On this episode, Rob sits down with Class of 2025 Beyond Boundaries Program student Loren Lacruz who intends to double major in Psychology and Political Science in the College of Arts & Sciences at WashU. Rob and Loren discuss LOTS of things including Loren's "big question" that got her into…
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54: Abram Van Engen & Peter Boumgarden (Morality & Markets)
On this episode, Rob sits down with Professor, Author, and Chair of the Washington University in St. Louis English Department Abram Van Engen and Koch Professor of Practice for Family Enterprise and Director of the Koch Center for Family Business Peter Boumgarden. Professor Boumgarden is also the...
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53: Bianca Rodriguez Pagano
On this episode, Rob interviews self-proclaimed "Scholar Kid" Bianca Rodriguez Pagano, a student in the Class of 2025 cohort of the Beyond Boundaries Program. Bianca talks about her history as an "ABC" A Better Chance Scholar, the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Scholars and the Herrendorf Family...
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52: Sparkle Whitaker
On this episode, Rob sits down with Sparkle Whitaker, a recent Class of 2022 Washington University in St. Louis alum with majors in Fashion Design and Sociology. Sparkle talks in depth about her Creative Collaborations project that she did with classmate Danielle Branch, her involvement in…
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51: Christine Nguyen & Mary Kate Charles (Creative Collaborations)
On this episode, Rob chats with another pair of Washington University in St. Louis students who have received a Creative Collaborations grant for a project related to writing and crafting a children's book that will help multicultural families explain the cancer diagnosis of a loved one to a…
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50: Aisha Adedayo
On this 50th episode, Rob interviews Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2025 student and AP Scholar Aisha Adedayo from her home in Minneapolis, MN. Aisha is in her first year at WashU and intends to be an Organization & Strategic Management major in the Olin Business School. Aisha spent a gap…
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49: Alicia Yang & Victoria Xu (Creative Collaborations)
On this episode, Rob chats with a pair of WashU students taking advantage of the Creative Collaborations Initiative under the umbrella of the Beyond Boundaries Program where they receive funding to explore an interdisciplinary across divisions at WashU. Alicia Yang from the College of Arts &...
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48: David Webb & Ray Ehrhard (To Sustainability & Beyond)
On this episode, Rob chats with the pair of faculty teaching a very popular Beyond Boundaries course this Spring called 'To Sustainability And Beyond: People, Planet, Prosperity' in Professor Ray Ehrhard, a faculty member in Energy, Environmental, and Chemical Engineering (EECE) in the McKelvey...
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47: Molly Rogers
In this episode, Rob chats with Beyond Boundaries Program student and Marketing & Psychology double major Molly Rogers from Cleveland, Ohio. Molly talks about her journey to WashU and her Questbridge application, first year Beyond Boundaries courses like Designing Creativity and When I'm 64, case...
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46: Ella Urton
On this episode, Rob chats with Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2025 student Ella Urton who has interests in studying Urban Studies and Dance at WashU in addition to her other passions including working at SWAP (Sharing With A Purpose), one of WashU's many STEP (Student Entrepreneurial…
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45: Jessica Weldon & Cyril Loum (Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship)
In this episode, Rob sits down with a pair of Assistant Directors with the Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation & Entrepreneurship dedicated to fostering and empowering an inclusive community that finds opportunities in problems and transforms ideas into action. The center builds…
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44: Brandon Perez & Heidy Piña
On this episode, Rob chats with two Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Beyond Boundaries students based in the School of Architecture in BB24 student Brandon Perez and BB25 student Heidy Piña to talk about how architecture, when leveraged with public policy and communication design, can be a...
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43: Meghan Kirkwood & Phillip Maciak (St. Louis & the Documentary Image)
On this episode of the pod, Rob chats with Professors Meghan Kirkwood (Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts) and Phillip Maciak (Arts & Sciences) about their brand-new Beyond Boundaries course launching in the Spring of 2022 called St. Louis & the Documentary Image. Professor Meghan Kirkwood is…
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42: Angela Hobson & Scott Krummenacher (Environmental Racism & the Health of Everyone course)
On this new Beyond Boundaries Podcast episode, Rob interviews the two dynamic Washington University in St. Louis faculty behind the NEW Beyond Boundaries course offered this Spring called Environmental Racism & the Health of Everyone in Dr. Angela Hobson, Assistant Dean for Public Health at the...
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41: Chef Gerard Craft
On this episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast, Rob catches up with Chef Gerard Craft! Chef Craft is an award-winning chef as well as partner in Niche Food Group. Chef Craft was a guest in a Beyond Boundaries course called Designing Creativity at Washington University in St. Louis back in the...
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40: Dean Georgia Binnington (Sam Fox School)
On this episode, Rob sits down with Associate Dean of Students for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts Dean Georgia Binnington. Georgia advises all students in the Beyond Boundaries Program that show interests in art and/or architecture. We talk about Georgia's upbringing in St. Louis, her...
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39: Dean Melanie Osborn (McKelvey School of Engineering)
On this episode, we visit with Senior Assistant Dean in the McKelvey School of Engineering Melanie Osborn who talks about advising students in Engineering and also advises Beyond Boundaries Program students with an interest in that area. We talk about her upbringing as the daughter of educators…
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38: Dean Paige LaRose (Olin Business School)
With this episode, we begin a series of podcast interviews with 4 undergraduate deans who advise all Beyond Boundaries Program students across 5 divisions at WashU: Arts & Sciences, McKelvey School of Engineering, Olin Business School, and Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. This pod episode...
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37: RuthAnne Dunn
On this episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast, Rob has a conversation with Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2024 student RuthAnne Dunn. They chat about RuthAnne's journey to WashU as a early-decision Questbridge applicant and her year taking a number of courses Rob teaches from Designing...
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36: Kimberly Hwang & Nicole Chen
In this pod episode, Rob talks with a couple of College of Arts & Sciences students in the Beyond Boundaries Class of 2024 in Kimberly Hwang joining the call from Taiwan and Nicole Chen in Los Angeles. We talk about how they know each other from grade school, awkward P.E. class events, WashU...
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35: Sam Ko and Dhillon Miyashiro
On this episode, Rob chats with two Beyond Boundaries Class of 2023 students in Samantha 'Sam' Ko and Dhillon Miyashiro. Both have connections across divisions between the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and Olin School of Business. We chat about their hometown of Los Angeles and Dhillon's...
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34: Mandy Huang & Bennett Rosenberg
After a winter break hiatus, the Beyond Boundaries Podcast is BACK with a new episode featuring two students involved in sustainability, the environment, and climate change. Mandy Huang (WashU '22) is an Associate in the Office of Sustainability and an Environmental Analysis major in the College…
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33: Heather Cameron and Joe Steensma (Endgame of Entrepreneurship course)
On this episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast, we talk with two of the four amazing professors teaching the Endgame of Entrepreneurship: Leveraging Capitalism for Good course in Dr. Heather Cameron and Professor Joe Steensma from the Brown School of Social Work. The course is offered next…
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32: Deanna Benjamin
On this episode of the pod, Rob sits down with Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences and Senior Lecturer in the College Writing Program & University College, Dr. Deanna Benjamin. We talk about Dr. Benjamin's roles in advising current students and highlighting the work of young writers...
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31: Caline Mattar and Proscovia Nabunya (Gender, Youth, & Global Health)
On this episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast, Rob talks with Dr. Caline Mattar of the Washington University School of Medicine Department of Internal Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Professor Proscovia Nabunya from the Brown School of Social Work and co-director of the...
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30: Olynyk, Parikh, & Kopar (Art of Medicine)
On this episode, Rob sits down with three distinguished faculty members in Professors Patricia Olynyk from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Associate Professor Shanti Parikh from Sociocultural Anthropology and the Department of African and African-American Studies in the College of…
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29: Darrell Hudson
In this pod episode, Rob interviews Professor Darrell Hudson with the Brown School of Social Work who also holds joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry, Department of Sociology, and the Institute for Public Health. Dr. Hudson talks about his upbringing in Detroit in the care of his...
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28: Simone Picker
On this episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast, we celebrate the BIRTHDAY of Beyond Boundaries Program Coordinator Simone Picker by releasing an interview with her on her birthday! Simone talks about her background growing up in South Africa and Dallas, TX, her background as both an…
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27: Emma Singh & Anya Mody
This episode of the Beyond Boundaries Podcast is a delightful two-for-one interview of two rising stars in the Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2023 in Emma Singh and Anya Mody. In this pod, Emma and Anya talk about their journey to WashU, how they became engaged in non-profits ranging from the...
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26: Trevor Sangrey
On this episode, Rob sits down with Assistant Dean in Arts & Sciences and Senior Lecturer in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Trevor Sangrey. They discuss how she gets to do "all the things" at WashU from heading up First Year Programs for the College of Arts & Sciences, life on campus with her...
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25: Randi Foraker & Joshua Landman
On this episode, Rob sits down with Dr. Randi Foraker, the Director of the Center for Population Health Informatics (CPHI) within the Institute for Informatics at Washington University in St. Louis and an Associate Professor in the School of Medicine and the Brown School of Social Work in the…
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24: Jonathan Solomon
On this episode, Rob visits with the Assistant Director of the John B. Ervin Scholars Program Jonathan Solomon. Jonathan talks about his role in directing and overseeing the administrative and operational aspects of the Ervin Scholars Program as well as his role as a faculty advisor for Black…
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23: Julia Macias
In this episode, Rob chats with Dr. Julia Macias who serves as both an Assistant Dean in the Office of Scholar Programs and as Director of the Annika Rodriguez Scholars Program. Rob and Julia talk about her background growing up in University City as the child of a WashU chemistry professor, her...
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22: Jennifer Harpring
On this episode, Rob interviews Professor Jennifer 'Jenni' Harpring and welcomes her at the new Assistant Director of the Beyond Boundaries Program at WashU! Fresh off of her teaching of the Beyond Boundaries class Empathy First last semester with Professor Liz Kramer, Jenni will be joining…
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21: Tinuola Adebukola
On this episode, Rob sits down with Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2023 student Tinuola Adebukola to talk about her first year in the program, the Creative Collaborations project she did with classmate and fellow scholar Colleen Avila in the form of THIS book about racial inequities and...
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20: Callista Isabelle
In this episode, Rob talks with the Reverend Callista Isabelle who is the new Director for Religious, Spiritual, and Ethical Life at Washington University in St Louis in a role where she promotes interfaith understanding and dialogue. Rob and Callista talk about both her past history and her new...
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19: Elizabeth Joseph
In this episode, Rob chats with Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2023 student Elizabeth Joseph from Lenexa, Kansas. Elizabeth is a talented author, writer, and poet. She fills us in on what she's been doing in quarantine, her intense summer job hunt, and some of the online poetry workshops…
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18: Maya Kovacevic
In this episode, Rob interviews incoming Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2024 student Maya Kovacevic. The discussion covers Maya's 'big question' she hopes to tackle at WashU that explores the lack of female leadership in healthcare and how that denies organizations the ability to accumulate...
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17: Nisha Sahgal
On this episode, Rob chats with Class of 2023 Beyond Boundaries Program student Nisha Sahgal and her interests across disciplines. Her 'big question' involves Ethical Engineering and she talks about her personal backstory in that area. We also talk about her work in designing and building...
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16: Juli Aronson
In this episode, Rob has to improvise to get a recording of an interview with incoming Class of 2024 student Julianne "Juli" Aronson because she joins the podcast from the wilds of Watkins Glen, NY where she serves as an intern at a farm sanctuary. Juli talks about her love of animals and her...
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15: John Inazu & Mark Valeri
In this episode, Rob talks with Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion and Professor of Political Science John Inazu and Distinguished Professor of Religion and Politics Mark Valeri about their brand-new Fall 2020 Beyond Boundaries course Religious Freedom in America. The conversation covers...
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14: Steve Malter
In this episode, Rob sits down with Dean Steve Malter who is the Senior Associate Dean of Experiential Learning & Strategic Initiatives at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St Louis and Co-Founder of the Israel Summer Business Academy. Dean Malter discusses his role and history...
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13: Ranen Miao & Christine Nguyen
In this episode, Rob talks with current Beyond Boundaries Program Class of 2023 students Ranen Miao and Christine Nguyen. They talk about their first year in the program, the student group and leadership positions they enjoy all across campus (including Ranen's role as SU President), being stuck…
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12: Jill Stratton, the 'Dean of Joy'
In this episode, Rob interviews Dean Jill Stratton affectionately known by generations of students as the 'Dean of Joy'. Dean Stratton is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Residential Learning at Washington University in St Louis and has been a trusted advisor and special counsel to the Beyond...
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11: Harrison Tanaka & Josh Sturgell
In this episode, Rob interviews a pair of current Beyond Boundaries students in Olin Business student Harrison Tanaka from Laguna Niguel, CA and Engineering student Josh Sturgell from Neenah, WI. Both reflect on their first year as students in the first year of the program as it relates to…
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10: Liz Kramer, Jenni Harpring, and Marissa Price
In the episode, Rob chats with the brilliant team behind the popular Beyond Boundaries 'Bear Bridge' course Empathy First: Solutions With Heart led by two faculty across the university in Liz Kramer from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts and the Office of Socially Engaged Practice and...
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09: Liam Dai
In this episode, Rob interviews current Beyond Boundaries Program student Liam Dai from Kansas City, MO. Liam is a student in the Olin Business School pursuing a number of different interests related to urban planning and construction. Rob and Liam discuss the miles-long walking tours that Liam…
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08: Merry May Ma & Jordan Lin
A special two-for-one episode that starts with an interview of Merry May Ma, undergraduate Teaching Assistant for the Beyond Boundaries course Designing Creativity with a background in Film & Media Studies and a PNP major followed by an interview of incoming Class of 2024 Beyond Boundaries…
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07: Brian Carpenter, Nancy Morrow-Howell, and Susan Stark
In this episode, Rob interviews the trio of WashU faculty representing 3 different divisions at WashU in Dr Brian Carpenter, Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dr Nancy Morrow-Howell, Professor of Social Policy with the Brown School of Social Work and Director of the Harvey A Friedman...
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06: Jessie Wills
In this episode, we talk with Jessie Wills who is entering the Beyond Boundaries Program in the Fall as a proud member of the Class of 2024. We discuss Jessie's interests that cut across disciplines in the areas of fashion design, anthropology, and global health. We discuss the program she did at...
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A podcast where we interview faculty, students, staff, and alums of the Beyond Boundaries series of courses and the Beyond Boundaries Program at Washington University in St Louis. In this podcast we aim to reach across the digital divide and highlight engaging stories told by Beyond Boundaries faculty and students at WashU and their ideas for future work and play. We hope to give you a window into what Beyond Boundaries is featuring the next generation of interdisciplinary thinkers and collaborators.
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Robert Morgan
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