Episodes
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Broadcasting Diverse Voices in Sports
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
Wednesday Sep 16, 2020
This week, Adam Giardino '11 (CLAS) tells us what he's doing to make the sports broadcasting world more welcoming and inclusive for diverse voices via a new scholarship and grant program; we meet new UConn 360 student worker Tyler Silverio '21 (CLAS); and Tom horses around ... historically.
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Here Comes The Story of the Hurricane
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
Wednesday Sep 02, 2020
This week, we talk with Professor Caitlin Lombardi about how family income can adversely affect the development of math skills in children, and we learn about how the Hurricane of 1938 left an indelible mark on campus, but couldn't stop classes from being held.
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Symbol of Might to the Foe
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
This week, we sit down with UConn sports expert Mike Enright to go over some of the most memorable moments in Husky history, and we learn that the prehistory of Downtown Storrs is longer than we originally guessed.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
The Great Grade-Change Caper
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
This week, Professor Rachael Gabriel, director of the Neag School of Education's Reading and Language Arts Center, talks about what she's done to help students, parents, and teachers stay on top of reading education during the pandemic, and we learn about the fatal flaw in a plan to illegally change the grades of students.
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
The Tide Is In
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
This week we sit down with alumna Lara Herscovitch '95 about balancing a career in social work with a career in writing and performing music; and we travel to storied Fort Trumbull to learn how UConn students there got the news out in the 1940s.
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
The Spirit of '49
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
This week, we hear from Coach Geno Auriemma; we meet Louis Goffinet '17, who launched a local charitable project in response to the COVID-19 pandemic; and we don mismatched Colonial uniforms to march alongside the mysterious UConn 49ers.
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Dig This Episode, Literally! (Well, Not Literally)
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
This week, UConn Humanities Institute Fellow Siavash Samei '19 PhD tells us about his work on archaeological digs in what used to be Mesopotamia, we learn about a class so good students deliberately flunked so they could take it again, and we almost forget to brag about an award.
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
A Nation in Turmoil
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
With marches and protests in small towns and big cities across the country in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by Minneapolis police officers, we convened a panel of UConn faculty members affiliated with the Africana Studies Institute to help us understand the events unfolding across the nation and the world. Joining us are Melina Pappademos, associate professor of history and Africana Studies and director of the institute; Sean Salvant, associate professor of English and Africana Studies; Bede Agocha, assistant professor in residence of psychological sciences and Africana Studies; and David Embrick, associate professor of sociology and Africana Studies.
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Awopbopaloopbop AlopbamUConn
Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
This week, Professor Jeffrey Ogbar talks about the art and lasting influence of Little Richard, and we journey back to the 1940s, when a professor was on trial for suspected anti-American sympathies.
Wednesday May 13, 2020
The Graduate
Wednesday May 13, 2020
Wednesday May 13, 2020
This week we bid a bittersweet farewell to Maxine Philavong, who graduated from UConn on May 9. We also talk with Prof. Nu-Ahn Tran about her work in archives that shed new light on the origins of the Vietnam War, and learn about a week that convulsed the university in 1970.