College on the Radio

Carleton College Professor Emerita of Geology and a Board Member of the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium Mary Savina discusses learning about the history of our planet through its minerals, and the possibility that we are living in an extinction era.  Hosted by Joe Moravchik.

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Professor of Economics Anthony Becker about his role as the Minnesota State Economist, and the state of Minnesota's economy.

 Host Joe Moravchik talks with Physicist and Astronomer Dr. Joel Weisberg about Pulsars, the differences between optical and radio astronomy, and why the stars look different in the Southern Hemisphere from the way the look in the Northern Hemisphere. 

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes back Carleton visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Seth Kimbrell, where they discuss supermassive black holes and much more.

Host Joe Moravchik speaks with Professor Emeritus D.E. Green from Augsburg University about one of the great writers and playwrights in all of history William Shakespeare, as well as some of Green's own poetry and the inspiration for it, and much more. 

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroethologist Dr. Norman Lee about how animals like crickets, flies, frogs, and spiders sense, process, and respond to the world around them and use sound in decision making. Additionally, how does this type of research benefit neuroscience? 

Host Joe Moravchick speaks with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy about his work searching for exoplanets and trying to answer the question of whether life exists outside of planet Earth.

 Host Joe Moravchik talks with Vice Chair of the Board Governing the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium and retired Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Thomas Drucker about whether math is an invention or a discovery, course offerings at the local collegium, Israel-Palestine and science and religion, Sherlock Holmes, the future of chess, and much more. 

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Art and Art History, Asian Studies and Russian Language and Area Studies Professor Karil Kucera about her research centered on sacred sites across Asia through a variety of theoretical lenses, her interest in 20th century Chinese visual culture, and issues related to the art of teaching.

 Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Economics and Interim Director of Business and Management Studies Naafey Sardar about his courses, his research in Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, and Applied Time Series Econometrics, and more. 

 Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Patricia Johnson, who chairs the board of the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium, and specializes in hermeneutics, or the study of interpretation. 

 Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Distinguished Professor of History Steve Hahn about piracy in colonial North America and the Caribbean, the pardoning of over 200 pirates at this time, and much more from his book A Pirate’s Life No More: The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas . 

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Seth Kimbrell about NASA’s Artemis program, why it’s important to return to the moon, the societal benefits and challenges of manned space travels to Mars, the findings and results from the Juno probe studying Jupiter, and more.

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Will Leeson about the history and the future of computing, coding, and artificial intelligence.