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Podcast: Selected - The Sesamers Podcast
Episode: Selected 36 - Dava Newman
Description: As a former NASA Deputy Administrator, Dava Newman has extensive expertise in aerospace biomedical engineering, particularly in areas such as human performance in different gravity environments, spacesuit design, and navigation aids for astronauts during spacewalks. These days, as director of the MIT Media Lab, she finds herself in an entirely different domain: a melting-pot with a multi-inter-transdisciplinary approach towards innovation, as she calls it, with one goal: to have an IMPACT.Newman’s work at the MIT Media Lab revolves around her passion for what she calls "transformative technology" at large. The excitement in her voice is co...