{"podcast":{"title":"All the Best — UNL Chemistry Faculty Tell Their Stories","slug":"all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910","podcast_index_feed_id":7711910,"rss_url":"https://media.rss.com/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories/feed.xml","website_url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories","image_url":"https://media.rss.com/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories/20260218_030221_17d1fa7c5487f0c596a62c60e14a8868.png","author":"Mark Griep","episode_count":4,"summary":"Welcome to All the Best UNL Chemistry Faculty Tell Their Stories, an interview series with retired and former faculty from the Chemistry Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. For undergraduate and graduate students, listening to these stories will help you understand what motivates the professors who are teaching your courses and how to find a research position in their labs. For potential faculty, listening to these stories can help you understand the power structure of a department including how to obtain access to specialized instrumentation and how teaching assignments are made. For the broader public, these stories provide a perspective on one small corner of our vastly interesting world. Since retired and former faculty have experiences that reach back more than half a century, the series will provide a personal view how the department’s history evolved.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910"},"episode":{"title":"Robert Powers, NMR-Assisted Drug Discovery","slug":"robert-powers-nmr-assisted-drug-discovery","published_at":"2026-05-16T15:49:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910/robert-powers-nmr-assisted-drug-discovery","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910","url":"https://rss.com/podcasts/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories/2828682","audio_url":"https://content.rss.com/episodes/373676/2828682/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories/2026_05_16_15_17_20_c3ae30ba-82e1-4d3d-9306-7654ac5c7e3b.mp3","summary":"Dr. Robert Powers became a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 and is about to retire after 23 years. Prior to UNL, Bob was a drug discovery researcher for 11 years at American Cyanamid, which eventually became Wyeth and is now part of Pfizer. Bob was born in Jersey, New Jersey. Something in his youth must have sparked an interest in chemistry because he earned a bachelor's in that subject from Rutgers University of New Brunswick, New Jersey. Then he traveled 1200 miles west to Purdue University in Indiana where he earned his doctorate. Next, he did postdoctoral research at the National Institutes of Health in the labs of Marius Clore & Angela Gronenborn. They were pioneers of using NMR to study biological macromolecules. At UNL, Bob’s lab has studied NMR-Assisted Drug Discovery.","meta_description":"Dr. Robert Powers became a chemistry professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2003 and is about to retire after 23 years. Prior to UNL, Bob was…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6522,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910/episodes/robert-powers-nmr-assisted-drug-discovery/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/all-the-best-unl-chemistry-faculty-tell-their-stories-7711910/robert-powers-nmr-assisted-drug-discovery.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}