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The Dr. Charles Townes Individual Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Innovision honors an individual who has exhibited a sustained commitment to the advancement of technology and the community for the benefit of our state. The award is named after the only person other than the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa to win both a Nobel Prize and a Templeton Prize. Mike Switzer interviews the most recent recipient of this prestigious award, Dr. Martine LaBerge, a professor and chair of Bioengineering at Clemson University. She was also recently inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame.

Germany continues to impact our state’s economy in a significant way which is why our next guest’s educational institution holds an annual German-American Business Summit, the sixth edition of which is coming to the Lowcountry on March 29th. Mike Switzer interviews Stephen Della Lana, senior instructor of German at the College of Charleston.

The Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston has embraced the mission of making its campus an integral part of its health and wellness goals and is a certified arboretum.

Partita is a synonym for “suite,” and the Baroque suite, which is to say the suite in the time of Bach, consists of a set of dance movements.

Stradivarius is the Latinized last name of Antonio Stradivari, often regarded as history’s greatest violin maker.

"Music…embraces at once the real and the ideal…"

In string playing, to play notes staccato means to play them with a bouncing bow.

If you are a regular listener of our show, you’ve probably heard our many discussions recently about South Carolina’s SmartState program where 51 endowed chairs are tasked with developing centers for economic excellence based on their research efforts. Since 2012, research at our next guest’s center has resulted in six patents and the formation of a startup company that is working on commercial development of nanotechnology for the remediation of oil spills in the environment. Mike Switzer interviews Jamie Lead, founder of GeoMat and the endowed chair and professor at the Center for Environmental Nanoscience and Risk at the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

The China COVID lock-down has now joined with rising inflation and interest rates, as well as with the continued uncertainty of the Russia-Ukraine war to possibly point to a recession now on the horizon, according to our next guest. Mike Switzer interviews Bruce Yandle, Dean Emeritus at the College of Business & Behavioral Science and Alumni Professor of Economics Emeritus, both at Clemson University. He is also the Distinguished Professor of Economics at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center.

“A” is for Allen Brothers Milling Company. Allen Brothers Milling Company is one of Columbia’s most celebrated landmarks.