Category: Podcasts

Join me for anoth­er episode of Cor­puz’s Cor­ner as I tack­le a ques­tion that’s been lin­ger­ing in my head: How have dif­fer­ent types of media impact­ed old crim­i­nal cas­es being brought back into the spot­light? With a focus on the Menen­dez Broth­ers, there has been recent media released by Net­flix…

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We don’t always con­sid­er the con­se­quences of suc­cess. The UConn Huskies have won back-to-back NCAA titles. Yet the increase in UCon­n’s pop­u­lar­i­ty has meant more stu­dents than ever before — and not enough hous­ing. Host Nick Spinali nar­rates Huskies With­out Homes, a pod­cast where you’ll learn more about UCon­n’s hous­ing issues,…

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The de-evolution of political discourse Politi­cians are pompous peo­ple. Nick Spinali hosts Pompous Politi­cians, a pod­cast focused on ana­lyz­ing polit­i­cal dis­course and its effec­tive­ness as new com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­niques have grown in pop­u­lar­i­ty. Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut Polit­i­cal Sci­ence pro­fes­sor Jef­frey Ladewig joins today’s episode. Lis­ten to a pre­view this episode (3:32):…

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Matt Cor­puz, the host of Cor­puz’s Cor­ner is joined on this week’s episode with Jenn Lon­ga, the Assis­tant Dean of Stu­dents for Vic­tim Sup­port Ser­vices and Bystander Ini­tia­tives at UConn’s Dean of Stu­dents office. The uni­ver­si­ty recent­ly released an OIE report with num­bers per­tain­ing to sex­u­al assault, stalk­ing, and inti­mate…

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By Anna Zim­mer­mann | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 12, 2023 In today’s first episode of “Small Sto­ries, Big Pic­ture,” we are delv­ing into the evolv­ing land­scape of high­er edu­ca­tion, and more specif­i­cal­ly, why col­lege enroll­ment has been mak­ing a steady decline. I spoke with for­mer Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut stu­dent, Lily Loewenguth, and…

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By MAINA DURFOUR | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 5, 2023 When you think of pup­petry, I’m pret­ty sure the first image that comes to your mind is the Mup­pet show. The sec­ond option is that noth­ing comes to your mind, and you don’t know much about it. Well, today, we’re div­ing into…

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By Maï­na Durafour | UConn Jour­nal­ismOcto­ber 30, 2023 The envi­ron­ment is a con­cern for many peo­ple as we hear about cli­mate change fre­quent­ly. We can find a lot of infor­ma­tion through news­pa­pers, doc­u­men­tary, or media in gen­er­al. How­ev­er, those infor­ma­tion are not always digestible for read­ers. This inter­view with UConn…

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With Anna Zim­mer­mann and Raye Neil | Octo­ber 30, 2023 Today we talked with UConn lacrosse play­er Raye Neil about her expe­ri­ences with being the minor­i­ty in a pri­mar­i­ly white sport and what it has been like as a black female ath­lete to com­pete at a high lev­el. Anna Zim­mer­mann:…

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By Kather­ine Jimenez | UConn Jour­nal­ismDecem­ber 14, 2022 Cold­er win­ters and hot­ter sum­mers. You bet­ter pre­pare for them because cli­mate change has entered Con­necti­cut. The Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, along with oth­er parts of the state, expe­ri­enced a dan­ger­ous drought this sum­mer which left many res­i­dents with­out water. State offi­cials even advised res­i­dents…

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