Beyond Boundaries Podcast

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 return to campus this semester despite frigid St. Louis temperatures. Both talk about their interdisciplinary journeys and evolving interests across both schools at WashU, how they spend free time when they have it, and wisdom for incoming 1st Year students. Check it out! 

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 of Arts & Sciences along with Bennett Rosenberg (WashU '23) a Beyond Boundaries Program cohort student, an Associate with the Climate Change Program with a minor in the Business of Social Impact in the Olin Business School. We talk about their individual and interdisciplinary paths of study at WashU, influential courses, faculty they admire, and ... favorite breakfast cereals. Listen & subscribe! 

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 Spring in the Beyond Boundaries slate of course offerings to ALL 1st Year students at WashU! We discuss the big ideas behind the course itself and dig into each professor's journey to and areas of research at WashU. We discuss social enterprises of all kinds from the use of sports for community development (Boxgirls for example) to what biology and birding can teach us about business. We even touch on kayaking and sailing as well. Don't miss this episode! 

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 all over the WashU campus in her role as Co-Chair of the McLeod First-Year Writing Prize, an annual prize that recognizes student writing that addresses race, gender, and/or identity. We talk about her love of her students and delve into discussing her past life as a thespian working on stage lighting, her undergrad studies at University of Houston and grad work at Arizona State, and her work as a copy runner and copy editor for the Houston Post newspaper that allowed her to literally say "stop the presses!" on one occasion. 

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 International Center for Child Health & Development (ICHAD) about their Spring 2021 course offering of the popular Beyond Boundaries course called Gender, Youth, & Global Health. Together, they discuss the international journey both professors have taken to be at WashU, how they  have continued their work during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their recommendations for 1st Year students on how to self-care during this uncertain time. Listen and subscribe! 

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 Arts & Sciences, and Dr Piroska Kopar from the Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine at WashU. The three of them teach the Beyond Boundaries Art of Medicine course next Spring. Rob interviews them to discuss this equal parts interesting and exciting class at WashU. Professors Olynyk, Parikh, and Kopar discuss their research areas of interest and practice, the connections that led to their collaboration on the course, and wise advice they have for first year college students based on their own personal experiences. Give this one a listen! 

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 grandmother, his journey to WashU and how his area of expertise is relevant now with COVID-19 particularly in the area of Social Epidemiology. His research focuses on racial/ethnic health disparities and the role of social determinants of health, particularly how socioeconomic position and social context affect health and health disparities. Don't miss this fascinating interview! 

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 undergraduate and graduate alum of WashU most recently receiving a Masters in Social Work from the Brown School of Social Work in 2009, and role with both administration and mentoring of Beyond Boundaries Program students who look to her for wisdom and advice. 

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 International Institute of St Louis to ArchCity Defenders to the National Women's Law Center. For students beginning just their 2nd year at WashU, these two are a force for good in the world and are sure to be an inspiration for anyone listening to their stories.

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 partner Anika Walke and adorable son Delaney, substitute clutch replacement gardening during COVID for the Burning Kumquat student group as featured in this article, her upbringing on college campuses all over the country, and...hats!