Host Joe Moravchik welcomes Carleton College Professor Emerita Susan Jaret McKinstry to the program. She taught in the English Department at Carleton for nearly 40 years. They'll discuss her career — including teaching abroad in Ireland and Russia, author Virginia Woolf's work, why storytelling matters, and Professor Jaret McKinstry reads from her book of poetry titled Tumblehome. This and much more on this week's episode of College on the Radio.

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Rod Christensen, primary care physician and former president of Allina Clinic, about preventative screenings, lifestyle choices for healthy living, advances in healthcare, his upcoming course titled "Dementia: Biology, Prevention, Treatment, and Response," and much more.

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College Director of Academic Technology Dr. Wiebke Kuhn about her technology leadership role, emerging technologies, language learning models like ChatGPT, the benefits and ethical concerns of artificial intelligence, and much more.

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Louis Epstein, a Musicology professor at St. Olaf College, about creating music, how music affects social and political climates, and why he does not see AI as a threat to music creation.

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.