Boiling Point: Stories of reaching points of crisis
b'This week, we bring you two stories of scientists reaching points of crisis.\\n Part 1: Rashawn Ray\\u2019s trajectory as a sociologist is forever changed by the murder of Philando Castile.\\n Part 2: Ecologist Marcelo Ard\\xf3n Sayao turns to both science and religion when his wife is diagnosed with cancer.\\n Episode transcript:\\xa0http://www.storycollider.org/2017/8/17/boiling-point-stories-about-reaching-points-of-crisis\\n _______________________________\\n Rashawn Ray is Associate Professor of Sociology, the Edward McK. Johnson, Jr. Endowed Faculty Fellow, and Co-Director of the Critical Race Initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park. Formerly, Ray was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. Ray\\u2019s research addresses the mechanisms that manufacture and maintain racial and social inequality. His work also speaks to ways that inequality may be attenuated through racial uplift activism and social policy. Ray has published over 40 books, articles, book chapters, and op-eds. Currently, Ray is co-investigator of a study examining implicit bias, body-worn cameras, and police-citizen interactions with 1800 police officers with the Prince George\\u2019s County Police Department.\\n Marcelo Ard\\xf3n Sayao is really into swamps. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at NCSU. He obtained his BA in Biology and Environmental Science from Gettysburg College, his PhD from the University of Georgia, and did a postdoc at Duke University. His research focuses on how wetlands and streams transport and transform water and nutrients. He spends most of his time outside work with his wife and two kids. They enjoy dancing, building sandcastles, and spending time outside, though he hasn\\u2019t fully convinced his kids of the beauty of swamps.\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'