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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: Professor Rebecca Braslau researches ways to reduce plastic pollution, and sheds light on the larger issues
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Professor Rebecca Braslau has served on the faculty at UC Santa Cruz since 1991, where she is a professor of chemistry. She has a BA from Reed College, a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, and carried out postdoctoral studies with Bernd Giese at Universitat Basel, the oldest university in Switzerland. She has been a visiting professor at other universities, including in Bangkok Thailand, Galway Ireland, Melbourne Australia, Eindhoven the Netherlands, and Paris France. In 2014 she earned the Excellence in Teaching Award at UC Santa Cruz.
Professor Braslau is the director of the B...