Creative Disturbance

Evan Acuna discusses new trends in the career landscape and how students can prepare themselves for their jobhunt with Jennifer Lynch, a consultant for the University of Texas at Dallas Career Center. 

Join Roger Malina and Oskar Olsson for a call with Ben Evans to discuss his work with virtual reality museum experiences and the positive aftermaths of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Join CEO of Neuro Rehab VR Veena Somareddy, Evan Acuna and Roger Malina for a discussion on her work merging healthcare and virtual reality in the field of physical rehabilitation. 

About our guest: 

Veena Somareddy is the CEO of Neuro Rehab VR, a VR healthcare start-up aimed at building virtual reality therapy exercises for rehabilitation. Her accolades include being recognized as a Top Innovator in North Texas, Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas honoree, and featured in Forbes and Cosmopolitan. She is also the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant and one of the 10 start-ups chosen to participate in the first Amazon Healthcare Accelerator. Using her many years of research and development experience in VR and AR she is helping to connect technology and healthcare to enhance patient care and rehabilitation outcomes greatly.

The open-door policy of the lab sparks a conversation between medical student Jabez Abraham and Roger Malina on ethics and discipline. 

About our guest:

Jabez was originally born in India and moved to the US at a very young age. He is currently pursuing a degree that would allow him to work in the medical field. He loves to share ideas and discuss them with others.

Join the Creative Disturbance team for a Watering Hole, a weekly open-door meeting in the lab for discussion of a wide range of topics related to the arts and sciences. 

Guest speakers include Carie S. Tucker King, Antonia Moran, Chris Lee, Eric Fulbright, Kody Neinast, Jennifer Lynch, Veena Somareddy, and Jabez Abraham. 

Oskar Olsson and Eric Fulbright further discuss Eric's interactive art piece Doors of Delusion, which revolves around the themes of grief and sensation. 

Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson. 

Join ArtScilab artist in residence Eric Fulbright and astrophysicist Roger Malina for a conversation on Eric's new piece exploring grief and the senses. 

Recorded and edited by Oskar Olsson.

Join Creative Disturbance with UTD Director of Rhetoric Carie S. Tucker King and playwright George Morgan for a discussion on the evolution of insulin research, current events and the importance of a relationship between creativity and the sciences. 

Artist Olia Fedorova lives and is sheltering in Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, 40 kilometers from the border with Russia. She shares stories about day to day life during wartime, reflects on how the meaning of her art is changing since the invasion and her views on Russian culture and imperialism.