UConn 360: The UConn Podcast

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.

Episode 6: All-Commencement Spectacular

It's time to commence! As the class of '18 heads off into the world, we talk with seniors about what they love about UConn and how their experiences here shaped them. We also make fun of people from the 19th century!

Episode 5: At Home in the Cathedrals of Old Europe

This week, we travel to Italy and Austria with the UConn Concert Choir, learn life lessons from legendary Professor Emeritus Dick Kochanek, and find out what happened when McCarthyism came to campus in the 1950s.

Episode 4: A Brief History of Good Boys

This week, we talk to Prof. Robert Thorson about Henry David Thoreau's "Walden," Tyler Wilkinson of A Dime Back, and solve a decades-old mystery in Jonathan Chronology. 

Episode 3: Play Us a Song, You're the Piano Brain

Join us as we go inside the famed Steinway piano factory, learn from two UConn researchers how to make music with our minds, and chat with Barry Berman '72, co-creator of famed fictional student politician Bill X. Carlson. 

Episode 2: All Things to All People

In this episode, we talk to Prof. Steven Wisensale about the sociopolitical significance of baseball; hear from Prof. Kenneth Foote about public manifestations of grief in the aftermath of the Parkland, Fla. shooting; and meet the most versatile student government candidate in UConn history. 

Episode 1: Pleased to Meet You

Welcome to the first-ever episode of UConn 360! In this installment, your hosts Julie, Ken, and Tom introduce themselves and explain what on earth they hope to accomplish with this undertaking. But there's more!

 

Also in this episode, there is an interview with Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Matthew Pugliese, WHUS General Manager Kailey Townsend, and a look at why penmanship instructor Ernest D. Proudman was the wrong faculty member to mess with. We hope you'll find this fun, informative, and worryingly habit-forming!