Category: Podcasts

Hear real black female college students at UConn share their stories on the microagressions they face about their natural hair and the barriers they combat in order to get hair care. Learn about the role hair and hair care plays in black female students lives.

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In an age where everything is digital, younger listeners are turning back to shelves, crates and thrift stores in search of something they can actually hold. We’ll explore why these formats are being revived, what makes them feel different from streaming and how collectors are are using their media at…

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What can be done about food insecurity in cities? It's a question that vexes many, but the steps taken to address often seem insignificant or ineffective. However, some community members are stepping up to create a more sustainable and affordable food system in their city.

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Here's how one team at UConn is trying to improve the data we gather on forests. To do that, we talk to Thomas Worthley, a UConn Extension professor.

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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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