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UnDisciplined: The Biomedical Engineer And The Quantitative Analyst

Utah Public Radio | By Matthew LaPlante
Published November 24, 2018 at 5:49 PM MST
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Dame Judi Dench as Queen Elizabeth I in "Shakespeare in Love" (1998)
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Elizabeth Vargis is an assistant professor of biological engineering at Utah State University.
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Samuel L. Jackson as Senor Love Daddy in Spike Lee's 1989 film "Do The Right Thing."
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Sherry Towers is a research professor with the Simon A. Levin Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center at Arizona State University.
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What do Judi Dench and Samuel L. Jackson have to do with ending crime waves and curing blindness? We'll find out this week when we're joined by guests Elizabeth Vargis and Sherry Towers. 

Vargis is an assistant professor of biological engineering at Utah State University. Towers is a research professor with the Simon A. Levin Mathematical and Computational Modeling Sciences Center at Arizona State University.
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Matthew LaPlante
Matthew LaPlante has reported on ritual infanticide in Northern Africa, insurgent warfare in the Middle East, the legacy of genocide in Southeast Asia, and gang violence in Central America. But a few years back, something occurred to him: Maybe the news doesn't have to be so brutally depressing all the time. These days, he balances his continuing work on more heartbreaking subjects with his work on UnDisciplined — Utah Public Radio's weekly program on science and discovery.
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