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LSS 55: The fashions of the future – Apparel research using a 3D body scanner; “Past Time: Geology in European and American Art”

Susan Ashdown, emerita professor in the College of Human Ecology at Cornell does research at the intersection of apparel design and technology.

The garment industry has started using advanced body scanners that create a 3D representation of the body. This technology can help people finding clothes off the rack that will fit their body shape and can even be used to make custom clothing created for a person’s precise measurements.

Adapting the two-dimensional craft of sewing and clothing design to 3D technology is more complicated than your might expect, so right now bespoke clothing is too expensive for the average consumer. But in the future it may help us to maintain a better wardrobe while simultaneously reducing clothing waste.

In the second interview, we visit the art exhibit, “Past Time:  Geology in European and American Art“, on display until May 12, 2019 at the Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell Campus.   We hear from Patricia Phagan, the Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and the curator of the exhibit.   Also, we receive a tour of the exhibit with Nancy Green, the Drukier Curator of European and American Art at Cornell’s Johnson Museum.

Main interview guest: Susan Ashdown | Interviewer: Patricia Waldron Second interview by Esther Racoosin | News: Mark Sarvary | Calendar: Luisa Torres | Episode Producer: Liz Mahood

LSS 54: Learn about medical illustration with Allie Buck and fossils with Professor William Bemis

Candice Limper interviewed Allie Buck, a Medical Illustrator at Cornell University

Esther Racoosin interviewed Cornell Professor William E. Bemis about coelacanths

LSS 53: Learn about parasites with Drs. Margaret Bynoe and Oyebola Oyesola at Cornell University

Professor Margaret Bynoe spoke about her research with Toxoplasma gondii with Candice Limper. Oyebola Oyesola discussed her parasite research with Luisa Torres.


LSS 51: Coastal Resilience Specialist Helen Cheng and Foldscopes

In this episode we explore how natural systems can coincide with people. Joining in the discussion is New York Sea Grant’s Coastal Resilience Specialist Helen Cheng, whose position is supported through a partnership with the Science and Resilience Institute at Jamaica Bay.

“How I define myself as coastal resilience specialist is really connecting [people to] science and making science usable for coastal communities,” says Cheng.

In addition to news and calendar updates, enjoy a short science-in-the-classroom program about foldscopes, a low-cost, origami-based microscope that can be assembled and deconstructed in minutes.

Contributors: Kitty Gifford | Daniel Kolbin | Liz Mahood | Nick Segerson

Producer: Candace Limper

Music: Show Theme by Joe Lewis, Cêcê Giannotti.