Name: Isabel Escobar: Making green masks to inactivate COVID-19 virus by University of Kentucky Research Media
Duration: 12 min 46 s
Description: The University of Kentucky's Isabel Escobar describes her KY NSF EPSCoR project to use green membranes with silver nanoparticles to make masks that inactivate the COVID-19 virus. She also talks about her mentor, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, known as "DB", and how UK is such a collaborative university.

Clinical Professor Muneer Ahmad explains why students are indispensable to the work of the Law School’s clinics. He discusses the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, including the extraordinary 24-hour period in which the clinic won a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban.

Season Two, Episode Eight: Muneer Ahmad

The Rt. Rev'd Dr. Vicentia Kgabe is Bishop of Lesotho. Bishop Vinny is the third woman bishop in Southern Africa and the sixth on the African continent. In 2023, Kgabe was invited by Archbishop Justin Welby to preach at the opening service of the Lambeth conference. Bishop Vinny joins us to talk about leading with compassion rather than power. She reminds us of how God will get us to where we’re meant to be and of how essential it is to be rooted in prayer (in the pew or at the gym).

14: Compassionate Leadership with Vicentia Kgabe

The Rev’d Dr. Jamie Hawkey, Canon Theologian of Westminster Abbey, joins us to talk about dialogues between the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholic Church. We discuss church unity, prayer in theology, and engaging the public through mysticism and the arts. Jamie, Brandon, and Hannah get a chance to talk about their shared love of Italy.

15: Ecumenical Dialogues with Jamie Hawkey

Joy Marie Clarkson, PhD joins us to discuss her latest book You Are a Tree: And Other Metaphors to Nourish Life, Thought, and Prayer. Hannah, Brandon, and Joy talk about what metaphors are and why they’re so useful in preaching, theology, and life. They ponder how humans are more like trees than machines and explore the metaphor of love as disease. Clarkson tells the story of how she ended up with her social media presence, and she shares a bit about her other books The Clubhouse and Aggressively Happy.

16: Metaphors with Joy Clarkson

The 104th Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams joins Brandon and Hannah to talk about church unity in the face of difference, vocation, and prayer. He explains how to engage in contemplative prayer and offers hope for the future of the church.

17: The Church and Prayer with Rowan Williams

Academic Dean of Westcott House Karen O’Donnell joins us from Cambridge for an intro to feminist theology. Dr. O’Donnell describes what feminist theology and trauma theology are, talks about her own journey into these fields, and considers where we go from here. Brandon, Hannah, and Karen (of course) also talk prayer and hope.

18: Feminist Theology with Karen O’Donnell

Father Lizzie and Mother Laura join us to talk about their vocation stories, how they each ended up doing digital ministry (accidentally), and why they joined forces to create their new podcast, “And Also With You.”

19: Digital Ministry with Lizzie McManus-Dail and Laura Di Panfilo

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove joins us from the Yale Center for Public Theology and Public Policy. He describes the making of white, Christian nationalism and helps us see a different path forward, following the teachings of Jesus. He walks us through the reality of the New Right in the 1970s as a way for us to understand our positionality headed into the 2024 election.

21: Christianity in American Politics

Dr. Nadia Kizenko joins Ariana Hones (MDiv '25) in conversation to discuss Kizenko's research on Orthodox liturgy in Ukraine. The conversation is twofold. First, Kizenko explores the liturgical practices of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. She discusses how these two competing churches, both which can claim canonical status, respond liturgically in times of crisis. Second, Kizenko speaks about her most recent project creating a vesper service and how liturgy functions as a means to include or exclude different identities. Throughout the conversation, Kizenko makes the case for paying close attention to liturgy and the ways in which Orthodox tradition across time provides elements of subversion for its participants.

Orthodox Liturgy as Refuge and Resistance

The University of Kentucky's Isabel Escobar describes her KY NSF EPSCoR project to use green membranes with silver nanoparticles to make masks that inactivate the COVID-19 virus. She also talks about her mentor, Dibakar Bhattacharyya, known as "DB", and how UK is such a collaborative university.

Isabel Escobar: Making green masks to inactivate COVID-19 virus

University of Kentucky Research Media

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