Deborah Holdship

Listen in, Michigan

Education EN ↓ 60 episodes

"Listen In, Michigan" is an audio storytelling feature brought to you by the online alumni magazine, Michigan Today. From historical features and alumni dispatches to campus news and provocative opinions, "Listen In, Michigan" will entertain and inform, helping to keep you connected to the University of Michigan — today.

Author

Deborah Holdship

Category

Education

Podcast website

michigantoday.umich.edu

Latest episode

Oct 23, 2025

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Episodes

Episode 61: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald, featuring John U. Bacon, BA ’86/MA ’94 23.10.2025

Michigan Today: The legend lives on Gordon Lighfoot: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald   The Gales of November: The Untold Story of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Episode 60: 'The Michigan's' mighty comeback, featuring Jon Fish, BA '95 17.05.2024

Mike Legg: Wikipedia YouTube clip: Mike Legg's historic goal, 1996 Zac Bell, hockey Jedi Red Berenson's first champs recall winning it all in Cincinnati 'The Michigan's' mighty comeback Photo Credit: Dale MacMillan  

Episode 59: Quit your life temporarily, featuring Colleen Newvine, MBA ‘05 24.02.2024

Newvine Growing website   Your Mini Sabbatical: Quit Your Life Temporarily 

Episode 58: We need to make truth our national purpose, featuring Barbara McQuade, BA ‘87/JD ’91 24.01.2024

Can we handle the truth? History's most heinous dictators have long relied on disinformation to destroy free societies and claim absolute power over nations.  Today's agents of chaos tend to be regular citizens, using social and traditional media as well as artificial intelligence to pollute the information ecosystem with lies and conspiracy theories. And in a sinister twist, modern-day extremists...

Episode 57: The archivist and the Unabomber, featuring Julie Herrada 26.08.2023

In June 2023, the world learned that the notorious "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski had died At 81, the domestic terrorist was undergoing cancer treatment while serving multiple life sentences in a high-security North Carolina prison. For Julie Herrada, news of Kaczynski's death was unexpected but not surprising. What was surprising was the "official pronouncement" he died by suicide. Herrada, the l...

Episode 56: Cinema Ann Arbor, featuring Frank Uhle, BFA '83/MILS '92 03.06.2023

Fifth Avenue Press University of Michigan Press Cinema Ann Arbor website The Once Group Andy Warhol's Chelsea Girls Ingmar Bergman 

Episode 55: Truth is stranger than historical fiction, featuring A. Arbour 25.03.2023

Ward, Wife, Widow by A. Arbour Music featured in this episode includes " The Yellow and Blue " performed by the Michigan Men's Glee Club. "Sweet Leilani" by Bing Crosby, a 1937 hit for Decca Records (archive.org ) One O'Clock Jump by the Count Basie Orchestra, also released in 1937 (archive.org ) Music of the 20s -- "The Roaring 20s Era: Music Songs from the Top 40 of 1920"

Episode 54: COVID’s silver lining, featuring Rob Ernst, MD ’91, CHO 24.02.2023

Michigan's Well-being Collective: wellbeing.umich.edu Learn more about The Okanagan Charter Rob Ernst bio

Episode 53: The Greatest Comeback, Featuring John U. Bacon, BA '86/MA '94 20.11.2022

John U. Bacon at amazon.com

Episode 52: Harvest at the Campus Farm, featuring Jeremy Moghtader & Talya Soytas 18.11.2022

Campus Farm U-M’s Sustainable Food Program (UMSFP) Michigan Dining Maize & Blue Cupboard ,  

Episode 51: Art Fair -- A ‘jewel in Ann Arbor’s crown,’ featuring Angela Kline 27.08.2022

Artists featured in this episode, in order of appearance: Ann Arbor Street Art Fair Chris Roberts Antieau Armando Pedroso Mark Sudduth Jack Magurany Jake Blok Thomas Wargin School of Rock Ann Arbor  

Episode 50: Making the "Joy Choice," featuring Michelle Segar, PhD, MPH, MS 25.06.2022

The Joy Choice Michelle Segar

Episode 49: Remembering Jim Toy, featuring Scott Dennis, MS '90 11.02.2022

Transforming Societal Paradigms: Jim Toy at TEDxUofM Spectrum Center website Spectrum Center Oral Histories Project Spectrum Center: Jim Toy's Legacy: Video Jim Toy Community Center Remembering Jim Toy (at Michigan Today) Jim Toy: Spectrum Center Oral Histories Project

Episode 48: Tales of a G-man, featuring Greg Stejskal 17.12.2021

FBI Case Files: Michigan -- Tales of a G-man Music samples are royalty-free tracks from elements.envato.com  

Episode 47: Sing to the Colors, featuring James Tobin 22.10.2021

"Sing to the Colors: A Writer Explores Two Centuries at the University of Michigan" is published by the University of Michigan Press. Music in this episode includes: The Yellow and Blue Varsity I Wanna Go Back to Michigan  

Episode 46: Scents and sensibilities, featuring Michelle Krell Kydd 28.08.2021

Blog: Glass, petal, smoke  TedxUofM Talk: Secrets from a trained nose  

Episode 45: Wisdom and whimsy, featuring David Zinn 25.06.2021

David ZInn Facebook David Zinn Instagram The Chalk Art Handbook: How to Create Masterpieces on Driveways and Sidewalks and in Playgrounds Temporary Preserves Chalk Art by David Zinn  Underfoot Menagerie: More Street Art by David Zinn

Episode 44: The (commencement) song remains the same 14.05.2021

Read about Michigan's 2021 Commencement Ceremony Visit the 2021 Commencement page for videos, photos, and coverage of individual schools and colleges

Episode 43: Art'sTangible Effect, feat. Wendell Pierce 22.02.2021

University Musical Society Register to view "Some Old Black Man" 5 things to know about "Some Old Black Man" Post-premiere discussion with the cast & crew The making of "Some Old Black Man" Set tour Producing theater in a pandemic

Episode 42: The interior life of Albert Kahn, featuring Claire Zimmerman 29.01.2021

Michigan Today Claire Zimmerman Albert Kahn Associates

Episode 41: The conquering heroines of Title IX, featuring Sara Fitzgerald, BA '73 24.10.2020

Conquering Heroines: How Women Fought Sex Bias at Michigan and Paved the Way for Title IX.

Episode 40: Ken Fischer: Ann Arbor's 'Music Man' 30.08.2020

University Musical Society  

Episiode 39: Going /aut/ with Keith Orr and Martin Contreras 27.06.2020

When Keith Orr and Martin Contreras refashioned their Mexican restaurant La Casita de Lupe into /aut/BAR in 1995, they sought to deliver a radically different gay-positive experience to the people of Ann Arbor. Their club would be the city’s first full-time, gay-owned gay bar. For the more than two decades that followed, Orr and Contreras created a sanctuary in Kerrytown’s Braun Court that sustain...

Coffee, COVID, & a course correction with Sweetwaters' Lisa Bee 25.04.2020

Sweetwaters Coffee & Tea

Prof Andrea Turpin: The first female students at U-M 29.02.2020

The Heritage Project Madelon's World Andrea Turpin "A New Moral Vision: Gender, Religion, and the Changing Purposes of American Higher Education, 1837-1917 (American Institutions and Society)."  

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