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This week, Prof. Mary Burke tells us how a John Wayne film helped set off a boom for Irish fashion, courtesy of Americans clamoring for “traditional” clothing; Prof. Manisha Sinha talks about the many ways in which history is never as simple as we like to think; and the Daily Campus supplies a possible clue […]
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This week, Prof. Scott Wallace talks about an exhibit of photographs and reports from his work as a war correspondent in Central America, student Tahj-Anthony Jean tells us how he came to become a restaurateur as the owner of Farmhouse Crepes, and we learn about how a UConn yearbook once became a flashpoint in a […]
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This week, we sit down with Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek and I’m With Her fame to talk about her upcoming performance at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts; learn about Prof. Cathy Schlund-Vials’ unconventional route to the academy and how taking complaints about a pizza restaurant played a role in that; and finally […]
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This week, we learn about how the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is nurturing young musicians; talk to Thomas Long about what it’s like to be the writer-in-residence in the School of Nursing; and learn just how hard it used to be to get classes canceled on account of weather.
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This week, we talk with Prof. Erin Young about genetics and pain management, and the challenges that come with being a woman in science; Ken checks in with Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier, and some familiar names from UConn women’s basketball; and we look back at a raiding party that sallied north of the border to […]
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Our last episode of 2018 is a look back at some of our favorite moments, and a look ahead to what the new year might bring. We chase people down for New Year’s resolutions, take a quiz, and end the year with UConn students singing “Unclouded Day” in Rome.
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This week, we learn from Prof. Marie Shanahan about how UConn journalism students are keeping tabs on Connecticut media; discuss a pioneering woman portraitist with Prof. Alexis Boylan; and discover that we all owe a debt to a man named Rufus.
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This week, Prof. Kroum Batchvarov takes us beneath the waters of the Black Sea to talk about ancient shipwrecks; we learn how a multidisciplinary team of UConn faculty members are helping survivors of the Cambodian genocide; and we visit 1950, when a UConn fraternity confronted racial discrimination on behalf of a pledge.
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This week, Prof. Micki McElya talks about the future of Arlington National Cemetery, Prof. Jeffrey Ogbar schools us on the politics of hip hop, and we travel back to a time when Storrs elected its own mayor … sort of.
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This week, we’re taking the show on the road, taping in front of a Homecoming Weekend crowd estimated to be the largest ever assembled to listen to an episode of this podcast. Prof. Margaret Rubega (@ProfRubega) talks about what it’s like to be the official state bird expert, Baseball Coach Jim Penders recalls the time […]