Coach Jim Penders answers your baseball questions and talks about the UConn baseball team.
Wednesday, January 8, 1:15 to 2:45
Coach Jim Penders, UConn baseball team

Queen Juana I of Castile (1479-1555), daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, was declared insane by her husband and father and spent her last 46 years in prison. Historians now suspect she was betrayed by ambitious men who used her “madness” to rule Spain in her place.
Tuesday, January 14, 1:15 to 2:45
Janet Avery, local history buff and a member of the Richard III Society

The latest trends in social media, global brand building, consumer insights, data and analytics, and diversity.
Wednesday, January 15, 1:15 to 2:45
Chris Olugbenga Ayeni, Professor, Dept of Communication, ECSU

The history of immunizations and the diseases they prevent, their impact on public health locally and globally, historical and current controversies surrounding them, and the current and future state of immunization programs.
Thursday, January 23, 1:15 to 2:45
Jody Terranova, Assistant Professor, Dept of Pediatrics, UConn Health Center

Why do we eat the way we do and what is it doing to our bodies and environment?
Wednesday, January 29, 1:15 to 2:45
Hedley Freake, Professor of Nutrition Sciences, UConn

New interpretations of rocks at Dinosaur State Park in Rocky Hill, calling into question some long-held ideas about the dinosaurs and their environment.
Thursday, January 30, 1:15 to 2:45
Peter Drzewlecki, Professor, Environmental Earth Science, ECSU

The lives of some of Eastern
Connecticut’s most prominent freedom fighters, known as the Sons of Liberty, and how they organized against Great Britain in the years leading up to the American Revolution, between 1765 and 1775.
Tuesday, February 4, 1:15 to 2:45
Dayne Rugh, Director of Education,
Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT

Lack of federal grant support and industry’s proclivity to keep research private has led to a paucity of U.S. peer-reviewed research about cannabis. UConn aims to become a national leader in cannabis horticulture and education, building a program that might attract grant support and generate research into the biology of this commercially important plant.
Wednesday, February 5, 1:15 to 2:45
Gerald Berkowitz, Professor, Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, UConn

Exploring hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease progression, and the possibility that dysfunctional immune cells in the brain might be a contributing factor.
Tuesday, February 11, 1:15 to 2:45
Kurt Lucin, Associate Professor of Biology, ECSU

This talk explores “white nationalism” in both Europe and the U.S., comparing and contrasting it with the fascisms of the 1930s and 1940s and showing that the contemporary American right is more in dialogue with its counterparts in Europe than it has been in generations.
Wednesday, February 12, 1:15 to 2:45
Christopher Vials, Associate Professor of English and Director of American Studies, UConn

A discussion of some misperceptions about creativity in the workplace. What blocks it and what helps us foster it?
Thursday, February 13, 1:15 to 2:45
Nora Madjar, Associate Professor of Management, UConn School of Business

Staying on your feet can help you maintain your independence. Take a simple step to learn the essentials of fall prevention, including six things that increase your risk of falling, practical advice to stay on your feet, how to reduce your risk of falling, and how to get up from a fall.
Tuesday, February 18, 1:15 to 2:45
Linda Colangelo, Education and Communications Coordinator, Northeast District Dept of Health

This talk discusses German reparations for the world wars and covers the history of slavery reparations proposals from the U.S. founding to the current day, suggesting how to determine lost African-American inheritances. Also addressed are the South’s Jim Crow laws and federal discrimination during the New Deal to the post-war era.
Wednesday, February 19, 1:15 to 2:45
Thomas Craemer, Associate Professor, Public Policy, UConn

An overview of how our nervous system ensures flow within our body and how stress can cause the system to become stuck, impeding flow and communication and leading to dysfunction or disease. Specific details about CST’s clinical applications and methodology, what a typical session is like, and what to expect during treatments.
Wednesday, February 26, 1:15 to 2:45
Vera Killian, Physical Therapist, Pelletier Physical Therapy, Mansfield, CT

This talk covers relationship basics and documentation tools, U.S. Census and other genealogy records, and techniques to break through brick walls.
Thursday, February 27, 1:15 to 2:45
Mary Dickerson, Dickerson Development Consulting

Do you live near a major road, a power plant, an industrial site, or in a dense neighborhood or a suburb? Are you close to a supermarket with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables? Such neighborhood factors can impact your health and longevity.
Tuesday, March 3, 1:15 to 2:45
Debarchana Ghosh, Associate Professor, Health Geography, UConn

Where it came from, how it happened, and what’s next.
Wednesday, March 4, 1:15 to 2:45
Stephen Dyson, Professor, Political Science, UConn

The development of Connecticut reproductive health policy since the Supreme Court decision Griswold vs. Connecticut, and current threats to reproductive health rights around the country.
Thursday, March 5, 1:15 to 2:45
Judith Blei, health law attorney

Digital transformation has created an entirely new world; robotic labor, drones, genetic manipulation, and virtual reality are only the tip of the iceberg. Digital gold in the form of bitcoin, and potentially digital cash in some other form, will challenge 400 years of history around how we organize capital in our society.
Tuesday, March 10, 1:15 to 2:45
David Noble, Head of the Peter Werth Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, UConn

Drawing upon her experience of living in two genders, Michelle will utilize ideas from psychotherapy, queer and feminist theory and racial sociology to expand current understandings of gender and sexuality. Please be prepared to hear explicit discussions of sexuality and anatomy, always delivered in a professional manner.
Wednesday, March 11, 1:15 to 2:45
Michelle Allison, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a fully-out transgender woman

Garry will discuss various cybersecurity threats and how institutions protect themselves, provide basic advice on how to avoid falling into the most common malware attacks, and answer your questions.
Thursday, March 12, 1:15 to 2:45
Garrett Bozylinsky, Chief Information Officer, ECSU

If yes, why? And if no, why not? The talk will be followed with some blarney and song.
Tuesday, March 17, 1;15 to 2:45
Sean Kennelly, former priest and CLIR’s resident Irishman

The headlines tout stories about why Boomers and Millennials can’t get along, but the research doesn’t really back up the headlines. What are the real differences and what is junk science about Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y, and now Gen Z?
Wednesday, March 25, 1:15 to 2:45
Peter Bachiochi, Professor of Psychology, ECSU

This talk is from a cultural evolution perspective.
Friday, March 27, 1:15 to 2:45
Peter Turchin, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UConn