The Incubator Unbound
A Transdisciplinary Conversation Series
Resilience and Hope-Fall 2025
Featuring:
Mary McKay: Executive Vice Provost & Professor at the Brown School, WashU
Patrick Daly: Staff Scientist-Societal Resilience and Sustainability, WashU
Steve Mennerick: Professor of Neuropsychopharmacology, WashU
Mitra Naseh: Assistant Professor at the Brown School & Founding Director of the Forced Migration Initiative, WashU
Storytelling-Spring 2026
Featuring:
Salma Abdalla, Assistant Professor of Public Health & Co-Director of the Global Health Futures Innovation Research Network, WashU
Cat Allman, Vice President, Open Source at Digital Science & Co-Organizer of Sci Foo Camp
Christopher Schaberg, Director of Public Scholarship & Professor of Practice in English, WashU
Betsy Sinclair, Assistant Vice Provost of Digital Transformation & Professor of Political Science, WashU
Future Events
Learn more about our 2026-2027 Unbound events, which are held in the lobby of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum on the Danforth campus.
Events
The Incubator Unbound is a phenomenal public forum showcasing synergy among scholars, experts, and innovators across and beyond WashU. The stakes are low, but the rewards are high; the organizers do an excellent job of fostering a generous, generative atmosphere for wide-ranging yet thematically cohesive conversations. I wonder: What leading-edge projects realized in the future might trace their origins back to an Unbound event?
― Chris Schaberg Director of Public Scholarship at WashU