In this episode, MIT President Sally Kornbluth sits down with newly tenured associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, Desirée Plata. Her work focuses on making industrial processes more environmentally friendly, and removing methane (a key factor in global warming) from the air. Links:<ul><li><a href="https://cee.mit.edu/people_individual/desiree-plata">Desirée Plata</a></li><li><a href="https://whoi.edu">Woods Hole Oceanographic</a></li><li><a href="https://platalab.mit.edu">Plata Lab</a></li><li><a href="https://globalmethanepledge.org">Global Methane Pledge</a></li><li><a href="http://web.mit.edu/2.00b/www/index.html">2.00b Toy Product Design</a></li></ul> Show notes and transcript:<a href="https://news.mit.edu/podcast/podcast-curiosity-unbounded-episode-1-how-free-range-kid-maine-helping-green-industrial">https://news.mit.edu/podcast/podcast-curiosity-unbounded-episode-1-how-free-range-kid-maine-helping-green-industrial</a> Join the mailing list or send us feedback:<a href="https://eepurl.com/ixPQPA">https://eepurl.com/ixPQPA</a>

Bureaucracies, dictatorships, and the power of Africa's people — Mai Hassan

The Curiosity Unbounded podcast brings you behind the scenes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through conversations between MIT President Sally Kornbluth and the people working in its labs and in the field. Along the way, Sally and her guests discuss pressing issues, as well as what inspires the people running at the world’s toughest challenges at one of the most innovative institutions on the planet.