UConn 360: The UConn Podcast

Episode 16: Sweet Science

This week, we speak with Max Schachter about the tribute paid to his son, Alex, by the UConn community; get the latest on North Korea from Prof. Alexis Dudden; and travel back to the Eisenhower era for a look at legendary boxing champ Rocky Marciano with Prof. Mike Stanton.

Episode 15: UConn Students Are the Best

It's the start of a new academic year! We interview UConn students on what they hope the year brings them, learn about human rights and sustainability from Prof. Shareen Hertel, and travel back to a time when you got napkins in dining halls only if you were lucky.

Episode 14: A Cult Following (Not the Good Kind)

This week, we learn from Prof. Mitchell Green how to "know thyself," meet globetrotting fitness journalist Emily Abbate '10 CLAS, and welcome special guest Graham Stinnett, an archivist at the Dodd Center, who introduces us to some cults from UConn's past. 

Episode 13: How to Behave in a Hurricane

This week, we take a reflective look at the Mirror Lake swing and its related anonymous journal; hear from Prof. Kenneth Fuchs about his new classical music compositions; and learn what happened at UConn when Hurricane Gloria hit Connecticut.

Episode 12: The Best Nachos In the World

This week we meet UConn alum David Wollner '82 and learn about the thriving business he created from scratch; check in with Political Science Prof. David Yalof on the Supreme Court vacancy; and learn how parents in the 1940s got the scoop on what their children were doing at UConn.

Episode 11: UConn Students On Screen, On the Page, and Against the Klan

This week we meet the founders of the UConn Film Club, dive into the 20th anniversary edition of the Long River Review, and travel back to 1980 to see how UConn reacted to a Klan rally in eastern Connecticut.

Episode 10: The Continuing Saga of Basketball Fistfights

This week we meet an alum with multiple claims to fame, including a very muddy one; we talk with Prof. Brian Waddell about what the government actually does; and we learn about the night a Rhode Island basketball coach sparked a mini-riot on campus.

Episode 9: Elementary, My Dear ... Orangeman?

This week, we speak with UConn English Professor Pamela Bedore about the world's most famous detective, learn about the intricacies of literary translation from Peter Constantine at the Humanities Institute, and learn about some pre-Huskies nicknames that thankfully did not catch on. 

Episode 8: Real News About Fake News

This week, we visit a UConn Science Salon where the weighty topic of "fake news" is dissected, talk with Broadway star Terrence Mann about spending the summer at the Connecticut Repertory Theatre, and get to know Homer Babbidge, the man rather than the library.

Episode 7: A Tradition of Throwing People Into Lakes

This week, we talk cyber security and terrorism with Prof. Evan Perkoski, learn how Kristi Kaeppel went from dropping out of high school to pursuing a PhD in the Neag School of Education, and consider some traditions of bygone UConn that are probably best left in the past.