Ariel Lavery
Producer, In The NoCoAriel Lavery grew up in Louisville, Colorado and has returned to the Front Range after spending over 25 years moving around the country. Ariel graduated Magna Cum Laude with her BFA from the University of Colorado Boulder (2007) and received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2013).
She served as the Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Watkins College of Art Design and Film in Nashville until 2018. She left her teaching job to begin her family and quickly found her way into the podcast world. With a grant from PRX, she co-created the podcast Middle of Everywhere for WKMS, Murray State University’s NPR member station.
Ariel won Public Media Journalism awards in every season she produced for Middle of Everywhere. Her most recent series project is "The Burn Scar", published with The Modern West podcast. In it, she chronicles two years of her family’s financial and emotional struggle following the loss of her childhood home in the Marshall Fire.
-
See-through solar panels that can filter out certain frequencies of light to help grow bigger, tastier crops. Scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden have been experimenting with a new kind of solar panel. And they say it could revolutionize farming. -
Colorado artist Detour is known for his colorful murals all around Denver. But a recent installation in Concourse B at Denver International Airport is a different type of experience. -
Like a lot of people nowadays, Artist Rick Dallago is fascinated by selfies. Rick paints key moments in history – or recreates famous works of art -- and then paints a cell phone into the image. His paintings show a man taking a selfie immediately after the JFK assassination. Or the Mona Lisa’s smile captured on a tiny cell phone screen. Rick’s provocative work is the focus of a new exhibition in Denver. -
Three moose attacks were reported in three days recently. And with the warm weather more people are venturing out into moose territory. So what are you supposed to do if you spot a moose in your path – or worse yet, get charged by a moose? -
Earlier this year, a commercial airliner struck an animal as it was taking off from Denver International Airport and had to make an emergency landing. Which led KUNC investigative reporter Scott Franz to ask: Just how often does this kind of thing happen? Scott found documents that show planes at DIA hit birds and other animals hundreds of times each year. -
The space just outside Earth’s atmosphere is getting a little crowded. And that could result in interruptions to the thousands of satellites that help power our weather forecasting and communications. A unique conference at CU Boulder this week asks tough questions about how to regulate outer space. -
It’s been three decades since Colorado voters passed Amendment 2, which banned anti-discrimination laws designed to protect the LGBTQ community. The latest season of KUNC’s podcast The Colorado Dream explores the state’s journey from being known as ‘hate state’ to being a welcoming place for the queer community. -
Hattie McDaniel was the first African American to win an Oscar. She used her platform to champion civil rights and desegregation. In honor of Juneteenth, we’ll hear a conversation with the author of a book that tells McDaniel’s life story after winning an Academy Award. -
A vaccine against weight gain: It’s something that could be in our future thanks to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder. -
Vegetables that ripen whenever you’re ready to eat them? Scientists at CSU want to make it a realityImagine being able to tell the vegetables in your garden when to ripen. Researchers at Colorado State University say they’re developing genetic “toggle switches” for plants that would let people control when and how their crops grow.
