Nationality United States Education Purdue University Role Author | Name Moira Gunn Known for Public Radio host Books Welcome to biotech nation | |
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Moira Gunn is host of the public radio program Tech Nation and its regular segment BioTech Nation. It airs on the National Public Radio. 24-hour program stream, the NPR channel at SiriusXM 122, and public radio stations, among other venues. Tech Nation episodes are normally based on an interview with an entrepreneur, scientist, engineer, business person, or others. BioTech Nation is based on interviews with significant people in the field of biotechnology. while Tech Nation Health was created to address the emergent technologies and science which are affecting the future of health care. The chief correspondent for Tech Nation Health is Dr. Daniel Kraft, the founder of Exponential Medicine.
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- Authors google moira gunn
- The innovation cascade moira gunn at tedxpurdueu 2014
- Personal life
- Education
- Career
- Honors
- References
The innovation cascade moira gunn at tedxpurdueu 2014
Personal life
Moira Gunn was born in Staten Island, New York, and moved with her family to California at the age of ten, settling in Menlo Park, just as Silicon Valley was coming into its own, and Sand Hill Road was open space - not the haunt of world-renowned venture capitalists. Technology start-ups were everywhere, and even decades later, the Gunn family's bungalow on Santa Margarita Avenue was just three doors down from another modest home, this one owned by Susan Wojcicki, who rented her garage to Sergey Brin and Larry Page as the first digs for Google.
Dr. Gunn now lives in San Francisco, producing and hosting Tech Nation, BioTech Nation and Tech Nation Health at KQED, and being a professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco, where she founded and directs the Business of Biotechnology program.
Education
Dr. Gunn's degrees include a BS in Computer Science from the University of San Francisco, a MS in Computer Science from Purdue and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University
Career
Gunn's early career included work at NASA on large-scale scientific computation and global communications, with special emphasis in infrared satellite image processing, computational fluid dynamics, and global climate and weather modeling. She also did work in robotics engineering at IBM, Morton Thiokol, United Technologies/Pratt & Whitney, Lockheed-Martin, Rolls-Royce, and the US Navy.
Gunn was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University, where she also earned an M.S. in computer science. In 2008 she was awarded an honorary doctorate in science from Purdue.
Moira Gunn is an Associate Professor in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. where she directs the Business of Biotechnology Program.
Honors
In 2011 she received the Public Service Award to the Individual from the National Science Board, for her contributions to the public understanding of science and technology.