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1. Pumpkin, The (05:36)

Date:
2018-10-25
Summary:
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, the team ventures out to a pumpkin patch in an effort to bring a family tradition to school.

3. Educating on Climate Change with PBS' Nova Producers (24:33)

Date:
2018-02-21
Main contributors:
Apsell, Paula, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 81, Dean Shanahan speaks to Paula Apsell and Doug Hamilton—producers of PBS’s critically acclaimed science series Nova—about the show's climate change programming and learning how to educate their audiences on the facts.

4. Discussing Race, Change, and Awkward Conversations with W. Kamau Bell (25:05)

Date:
2018-01-17
Main contributors:
Bell, W. Kamau, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Through the Gates host Janae Cummings opens season 3 with W. Kamau Bell—sociopolitical comedian, podcaster, author, and Emmy Award-winning host of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America. Bell visited the Indiana University Bloomington campus to speak at the university's annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Leadership Breakfast.

5. Bendix-Balgley, Noah, First Concertmaster with the Berliner Philharmoniker (24:38)

Date:
2018-03-21
Main contributors:
Bendix-Balgley, Noah, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
In episode 85, Janae Cummings speaks to Noah Bendix-Balgley, first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic and a graduate of IU's Jacobs School of Music. As the Wells Scholars Program professor, Bendix-Balgley recently visited Bloomington to lead an honors interdisciplinary colloquium for undergraduate students on "Art Music in the Contemporary World: An Exploration of Emerging Models."

6. Cybersecurity and the Challenges of Staying Safe Online in 2018 (26:49)

Date:
2018-01-24
Main contributors:
Calarco, Dan, Welch, Von, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
In episode 77, Janae Cummings speaks to Dan Calarco, chief of staff for IU's vice president for information technology, and Von Welch, director of IU's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research. The trio discuss cybersecurity, two-factor login, and the challenges of staying safe online.

7. Clement, Joel, Blows the Whistle on Climate Change in the Arctic (33:04)

Date:
2018-11-14
Main contributors:
Clement, Joel, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 104, Dean Shanahan talks with former director of the Office of Policy Analysis at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Tune in to hear Clement discuss the impact of climate change and whistleblowing in a government agency.

8. All I Want for Christmas (05:46)

Date:
2018-12-07
Main contributors:
Coffman, Andrew
Summary:
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, Abbie and Emily try to figure out why so many students can't get enough of a 1994 holiday tune. Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash.

9. DeCurtis, Anthony, Author, Journalist, Music Critic & IU Alum (29:13)

Date:
2018-04-04
Main contributors:
DeCurtis, Anthony, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 87, we feature an early-release episode of a mini-series from the College of Arts and Sciences featuring three alumni who received awards from the College this year. This episode is about award-winning author, journalist, and music critic Anthony DeCurtis.

10. Folklore Professor, Robert Dobler, Discusses the Dead (23:39)

Date:
2018-10-31
Main contributors:
Dobler, Robert, Shanahan, James
Summary:
Episode 102 is our second annual student Halloween edition of the show. Last year, we told you IU’s best legends in Episode 67. This year, we are a little more serious, talking with professor Robert Dobler about the ways we experience, commemorate, and avoid death.

11. Indiana University Sleep Walk (05:08)

Date:
2018
Main contributors:
Docherty, Carrie, Lalevich, Steven, Cummings, Janae
Summary:
Hoosier Five host Janae Cummings talks about the Indiana University Sleep Walk and the Sleep Great IU! Challenge with Carrie Docherty from the IU School of Public Health and Steven Lalevich from Healthy IU.

13. Lotus World Music & Arts Festival with Sunni Fass & Rob Simonds (20:29)

Date:
2018-09-26
Main contributors:
Fass, Sunni, Simonds, Rob, Shanahan, James
Summary:
This week, Dean Shanahan discusses the Lotus World Music and Arts Festival with Executive Director Sunni Fass and Interim Artistic Director Rob Simonds. Listen to learn about the history of the festival, how Lotus cultivates the acts, and what artists that will be performing this year.

14. Professor Bernard Fraga Explains the Gap in Voter Turnout (30:20)

Date:
2018-11-07
Main contributors:
Fraga, Bernard, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 103, Dean Jim Shanahan is joined by Bernard Fraga, Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Tune in to hear about Fraga's research on voter turnout rates, political polls, and gerrymandering and redistricting.

15. Francis, Terri, Director of IU's Black Film Center/Archive (25:45)

Date:
2018-09-05
Main contributors:
Francis, Terri, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 94, Associate professor Terri Francis and Dean Shanahan discuss the Black Film Center/Archive’s Michael Shultz film series (including To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Cooley High, Krush Groove and Car Wash), Francis’s upcoming book about the cinematic career of Josephine Baker, and the realities of Afrosurrealism.

16. Wounded Galaxies 1968: Paris, Prague, Chicago (25:20)

Date:
2018-02-07
Main contributors:
Hawkins, Joan, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 79, Dean Shanahan speaks to Joan Hawkins, associate professor at the IU Media School, about the Wounded Galaxies festival and symposium. Wounded Galaxies: 1968 – Beneath the Paving Stones, the Beach is a festival and symposium produced by The Burroughs Century Ltd., welcoming scholars, writers, artists, archivists, filmmakers, performers, and others interested in exploring the intellectual and aesthetic legacy of 1968, during its 50th Anniversary year. The festival subtitle is a translation of the French slogan “Sous les pavés, la plage!,” a popular resistance graffiti in France Mai ’68 that refers to both the sand beneath cobblestones lifted by students to hurl at police as well as the ‘Situationist’ conviction that the streets–the expression of capital and consumption–could be rediscovered by abandoning a regimented life.

17. Helmke, Paul & Lisa-Marie Napoli Talk Student Voters and the Midterm Elections (27:58)

Date:
2018-10-03
Main contributors:
Helmke, Paul, Napoli, Lisa-Marie, Shanahan, James
Summary:
"The thing that people forget, is that most elections are actually decided by the people that don't vote." Professor Paul Helmke, Associate Director of P.A.C.E. Lisa-Marie Napoli, and Dean Shanahan talk about the importance of midterm elections, beating Purdue in the Big Ten Voting Challenge, and the power of student voters.

18. Professor of Rock & Roll Andy Hollinden (30:25)

Date:
2018-12-05
Main contributors:
Hollinden, Andy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In Ep. 106, Dean Shanahan talks with Jacobs School of Music Senior Lecturer Andy Hollinden. Known as the "Professor of Rock & Roll," Hollinden talks about his love affair with music, his admiration of Frank Zappa, and teaching the next generation about music legends.

19. Kalven, Jamie, the First Amendment, and the Laquan McDonald Case (27:04)

Date:
2018-03-14
Main contributors:
Kalven, Jamie, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 84, journalist Jamie Kalven spoke to Media School Dean James Shanahan about using first amendment freedoms to fight censorship. Kalven successfully fought a subpoena to name sources for his story about the police-involved shooting death of Chicago teenager Laquan McDonald.

20. Ballantonian, The (06:27)

Date:
2018-11-09
Main contributors:
Kellams, Dina
Summary:
The Sample: In this episode of The Sample, the team flips back fifty years to 1968. Through The Ballantonian, a weekly liberal arts review run from September 1967 to January 1969 by Indiana University students, we offer the year's poetry, criticism and politics. Special thanks to the director of University Archives, Dina Kellams.