Podcasts about undercover colors

Welcome to episode 36 of SonaCast. Undercover Colors made headlines a few years ago for its idea to detect date rape drugs in alcohol using coloured nail varnish. Today that idea has transformed into SipChip, a lateral flow-based device that can detect beverages spiked with drugs (commonly called ‘roofies’) in 30 seconds. In this episode we speak to Undercover Colors’ Director of R&D Dr Nick Letourneau about SipChip and his company’s fight against drug-facilitated sexual assault. Producer: Darren Evans communications@sonanano.com Interviewer: Darren Evans Guest: Dr Nick Letourneau, Undercover Colors’ Director of R&D Special thanks to Michael Boyd, owner of Podcast Atlantic Edited by Michael Boyd of Podcast Atlantic Visit us at: www.sonanano.com Follow us on Twitter: @SonaNanotech Connect with us on: LinkedIn Music Far Away by MK2 Logo by Alexandra Evans of Happy Elephant Creative Email us at: communications@sonanano.com

-We take a break from our typical food and beverage conversations to talk about a serious, yet sadly under-reported crime happening in restaurants all over the world: DFSA, or Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault. -Sophia Woo, owner of  sits in as guest host as we open up the conversation to DFSA with CEO Barbara Cook and Director of R&D Dr. Nick Letourneau of Undercover Colors (). -Undercover Colors is a unique portable product that has the power to detect if your drink has been drugged, whether it's alcoholic or nonalcoholic. The test comes in the form of a small medallion, slightly bigger than a quarter, that you can simply place a drop of your drink on to detect whether or not your drink has been spiked with date rape drugs. On the podcast, we test the product and dive into a deeper discussion as to why Undercover Colors is so important. While the test doesn’t solve the complicated problem of sexual assault within the food and beverage industry, it is extremely useful in protecting ourselves and others when we go out to restaurants and bars. -As members of this industry, it's our responsibility to educate and protect our community in matters of this kind. We hope we didn't veer too far out of our lane, but we think you can all agree that this is a subject that needs attention. Looking for a home in the Triangle? Contact Lora Harris - your   And get your wine & beer at  Use promo code 'NCFB' at checkout! Hospitality industry veterans, and , get behind the scenes of North Carolina's burgeoning food and beverage culture. Hear from local chefs, sommelier's, distillers, farmers, brewers and the whole lot of them in the NC F&B podcast.  Max is a front-of-house vet/sommelier that moved from Los Angeles to North Carolina in 2013. Since moving to North Carolina, he's run restaurants, designed wine programs and builds craft cocktail menus. Matthew is a certified sommelier from New York. His experience ranges from restaurant/bar to importing some of the finest wines in the world. He moved his family to North Carolina two years ago and works as a wine distributor.  For questions, comments and booking, contact us at Eat & Drink Merrily!    

On this episode of MOVE, Andy Albright introduces you to Barbara Cook, CEO and Board Member of Undercover Colors based out of Raleigh, N.C. Throughout her 30-year career in the global retail and wholesale industries, Cook has become a highly-regarded executive who is known for her ability to drive results and keep employees focused. She has a successful track record with startups, turnarounds, acquisitions and sales across various sectors that spans apparel, accessories, food services and mobile markets. In late 2017, Barbara was appointed CEO of Undercover Colors, which is a groundbreaking patented diagnostic technology.The goal of the company is to eliminate the potential of date rapes. Previously, Cook was a senior executive at several of the world’s best-known brands with revenues ranging from $3B to $10M. She worked at Hudson Jeans, Gap North America, Banana Republic, T-Mobile, Starbuck's and other major companies. www.AndyAlbright.com @AndySAlbright #N247RU #MOVE #DoTheDo #TheAlliance

Le Bon Plan d’Isaline ce soir, c’est un nouveau test développé par UnderCover Colors. Un test “minute” qui permet de détecter la plupart des drogues du violeur comme le GHB, le Xanax, le Valium etc. et ce, dans plus de 100 liquides différents. Découvrez ces nouveaux tests ici : undercovercolors.com

Nancy Conrad is the Founder and Chairman of the Conrad Foundation, based on the rich legacy of her late husband Pete Conrad, the Apollo I2 astronaut. Her mission is to promote collaborative, student-centered, real-world learning that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship and unleashes students' potential to create future-defining solutions and a sustainable society for generations to come. Ankesh Madan is an accomplished Conrad Challenge alumnus, whose entrepreneurial focus was sparked by his participation in the Challenge. He competed in the challenge in 2010 while attending a high school that specializes in math and science in North Carolina. He and his team were finalists in the Renewable Energy category, and he is currently a member of the Conrad Alumni Leadership Council. As an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, he and some fellow students co-founded Undercover Colors, a company that is addressing drug-facilitated sexual assault by developing products that detect date rape drugs. This invention sparked a flurry of media interest that spanned the globe. In 2008, Nancy Conrad established the Conrad Challenge, a multi-phase innovation and entrepreneurship program, which includes mentorship and support from worldwide experts. This annual global competition challenges students to combine education, innovation and entrepreneurship to create commercially viable, technology-based solutions to local and global real-world challenges. By enabling young minds to connect education, innovation and entrepreneurship, the Foundation helps provide a bold platform for enriching the innovative workforce of the future. Teams of students from around the world can enter the Conrad Challenge in one of several categories including the following: Aerospace & Aviation Cybertechnology & Security Energy & Environment Health & Nutrition Smoke-Free World Transforming Education through Technology Through the challenge, students learn to apply the Conrad Design Method (CDM), a structured five phase collaboration framework for teachers and student teams to understand and accomplish innovative and entrepreneurial solutions. Finalists congregate for an Innovation Summit at the Kennedy Space Center in April.

In many ways, Nick and Bianca Bowser are very typical parents. They have two children; Kai is three and Pax is one. "We are exhausted all the time," Nick laughs. "We both work at a bar, so we both work at night, so there's very little sleep." The thing that sets this family apart, and has recently landed them on the Riki Lake show and in international headlines, is something strangers on the street usually don't even notice: Nick and Bianca are both transgender. Nick was assigned female gender at birth, and Bianca was assigned male. Neither has undergone full surgical transition (partially because it's so expensive), so when they decided to have children, they were able to conceive. Nick and Bianca are part of our own community right here in Louisville, and Nick stopped by this week to share their story. We were curious about why they chose to go public with their family's story, when they otherwise have no problem passing. "We want people who are like us to be able to get help if they need help," he explains. There's a mountain of different issues that trans people have to face, and we feel as thought bringing our story to the public and letting them know, hey, we really are normal, but there's something different about us. We have a family. We've had children. We're the same as everybody else. But we had to face all these other obstacles because you (as a whole) don't understand who we are, so were discriminated against because of that. In our Juicy Fruit segment this week, we focus on the so-called anti date rape nail polish, "Undercover Colors," and how it's been criticized as just another instance of putting the onus on women to prevent rape. Dr. Story talks about how she teaches her classes about rape and gendered violence, but says college students in general are still woefully uninformed about consent. "They just really have no idea what equals consent, what is actually rape," she says. "A lot of times young people are saying in classes that they don't really even think about consent when they are about to engage in a sex act, period." And, of course, we couldn't let this week go by without delving into Beyoncé's legendary performance on the VMAs, the giant F-word she flashed at the world, and how we still live for her.