Voices of Innovation begins broadcast

     VOICES OF INNOVATION, a new daily radio program celebrating engineering invention and ingenuity, begins broadcast this week. The series can be heard in September on 32 stations nationwide, and will be heard around the world on Voice of America and the Armed Forces Radio Network. (List of stations)

In Voices of Innovation’s debut month, listeners will find out how engineers helped avert a greater disaster on September 11, 2001, learn how secret codes and ciphers have changed our lives, and hear a rare interview with Gemini astronaut, Wally Schirra.

In future programs, Voices of Innovation explores Mars Boot Camp, cell-sized surgeons, recycled oil wells, cutting edge snowboards, smart bandages, treating waste with biomimicry, space farms, and robot therapists.

Voices of Innovation is a unique interdisciplinary public awareness project among the more than 20 members of the American Association of Engineering Societies.

“The radio program tells us how engineers respond to the many challenges facing our world today,” said Tom Price, AAES’s executive director. “Using the actual voices of engineers themselves, Voices of Innovation offers rare moments of insight into engineers' responsibilities as creators of technological wonders."

AAES is working with nationally-syndicated radio personality Jim Metzner to produce the series. Metzner, well-known to radio listeners and readers as the producer and host of Pulse of the Planet, brings 25 years of recording and production experience to the series.

Kasey Morabito, a popular morning personality on WHUD in New York's Hudson Valley, hosts Voices of Innovation. Kasey's humor and intelligence blends with interviews and ambient sounds to draw listeners into the world of engineering innovation and discovery.

Production of Voices of Innovation is made possible by a generous grant from the United Engineering Foundation, with additional support provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The series is distributed free to qualified stations each month, exclusively by Murray Street Enterprise in New York. For more information about Voices of Innovation, please visit the web site at www.voicesofinnovation.org.