Episodes
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COVID19 E3: Closeness in the Time of Corona
By this time, we are waaay sick of Zoom meetings and videochats devoid of emotion and human connection. But how can we stay connected with one another while apart? Is distance the enemy of vulnerability and intimacy?? Theater director Kari Barclay joins LUE podcast to share thoughts on intimacy...
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COVID19 E2: Everyone is our neighbor
Kat invites Mary-Catherine Anderson to the show to share her perspective on the homelessness crisis and COVID19. MC researches social and environmental determinants of health and conducts community-engaged research in Nashville. In a global pandemic, everyone is your neighbor, and they share how...
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COVID19 E1: Totally different from homeschooling
This is actually nothing like homeschooling. For the first episode in this special series--Life the University, and COVID-19--Kat welcomes Colette and Joel to the show to talk about their previous experiences being home-schooled. Colette Kelly is a marine biogeochemist and Joel Schneider studies...
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S1E4: "It's Always Sunny in Palo Alto?"
Last time we asked, "What even is home?", and this week we're going a little deeper. Today we chat with Emily Lacroix, a PhD candidate studying soils! Emily chats with us about her life geography and sense of place, challenges of belongingness in college, challenges of being a good long-distance...
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S1E3: "What even is Home?"
Do our ideals make us lonely? What does belonging feel like? Aldis and Kat discuss Home, Belonging, Loneliness, Ideals, and Suffering. Aldis Petriceks is a medical student at Harvard and was a research assistant at Stanford Medicine until summer 2019. Aldis grew up in Palo Alto, went out East for...
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S1E2: "Why are we building this??" Part 2
In this series, Kat and Dean sit down and talk about purpose and stuff. Part 2: Dean shares about his shift from engineering to social science, what important research questions are, thoughts on how to reform academia...and why we might even want to think about reforming it in the first place....
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S1E1: "Why are we building this??" Part 1
Our guest is engineer-turned-anthropologist Dean Chahim. Kat and Dean sit down and talk about changing the world and reforming academia and stuff. But first, tea. Part 1: Dean shares his early years living in Seattle as a first generation Afghan American, wanting to be an astronaut, choosing…
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Pilot: the tea is brewing
Welcome to our podcast of (mostly) academics talking about life, the university, and (almost) everything! No answers, just (brewing, sipping, spilling) tea.In this episode, we introduce ourselves and our plans for the podcast, brainstorm what's coming and share some panel–planning advice. Follow...
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A podcast of (mostly) academics talking about life, the university, and (almost) everything. No answers, just (brewing, sipping, spilling) tea.
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