UConn life, told through its people.
UConn 360: The UConn Podcast moves through UConn life by talking with students, staff, faculty, coaches, writers, and campus organizers. Its range runs from Final Four travel and women’s ice hockey to Huskython, civil rights work, resiliency research, children’s books, and bakery operations.
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UConn 360: The UConn Podcast is a conversational campus magazine show focused on the people, programs, and rituals that make up UConn life. It is not limited to one beat. Athletics sits beside student service, dining operations, academic research, university offices, and creative work. Mike Enright and Izzy Harris give the show an approachable rhythm, often opening with weather, food, travel, or campus-life banter before turning toward the guest. The mood is friendly. The interviews still make room for substance. In the provided episodes, UConn basketball appears through media work around the men’s and women’s Final Four, including Wayne Norman and student journalists from the Daily Campus. Women’s ice hockey appears through Chris McKenzie and a conversation about program growth, recruiting, facilities, attendance, and the wider development of the sport. Campus service takes shape through Huskython, with attention to student participation, the long day of the dance marathon, fundraising, food, and logistics. The university’s working infrastructure gets its own spotlight when Eric Merkel talks about the bakery, baked goods, parent orders, Thanksgiving pie sales, and the rush around holiday events. Other episodes turn toward institutional care and personal formation. Jonnell describes MLK Legacy Awards, DEI initiatives, and the challenge of work that can require patience, policy change, and long-term attention. Dr. Jeffrey Hines connects inclusion and civil rights at UConn with health equity, disparities, military service, medical training, family, running, and visual art. Keith Blizzy discusses resiliency, vulnerability, aging, connection, purpose, and his book Falling Forward. Luisana talks about Julieta, name pronunciation, Greek mythology, art, mischief, and writing for young readers. Across these conversations, the show’s value is cumulative. It gives UConn a human scale by letting the people who teach, feed, report on, organize, coach, support, and represent the university explain what their work actually involves.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants a close, conversational look at UConn beyond headlines and scoreboards. It fits alumni, students, families, staff, and university watchers who enjoy practical detail and campus personalities.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its range inside one institution: a Final Four media weekend, a dance marathon, a bakery, civil rights work, resilience research, and children’s books can all sit naturally under the same UConn lens.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A warm campus conversation about detours, personal history, and imagination behind a children's book.
UConn 360 blends a lively campus update with a reflective conversation about Luisana's move from medical-school plans toward writing for middle-grade readers.
A warm UConn-centered episode about Final Four memory, media work, and the view from both booth and student newsroom.
Final Four weekend gives this UConn 360 episode a natural center as UConn-connected media voices talk through the work, memory, and anticipation around the men's trip to Indianapolis, with a brief nod to those headed to Phoenix for the women's Final Four.
A warm, practical look at the stamina and student organizing behind UConn's Huskython dance marathon.
Huskython emerges as a demanding campus effort built around an 18-hour dance marathon, year-round fundraising, and a large student-run operation.
A physician's path from wartime health disparities to UConn's inclusion and civil rights work.
The episode traces Dr. Jeffrey Hines from his work as a battalion surgeon during Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm to gynecologic oncology and, later, leadership of UConn's Office for Inclusion and Civil Rights.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Co-hosts discuss Izzy's experience at the men's Final Four and introduce guest Luisana Tuatre.
UConn 360: The UConn Podcast uses Episode 160, “Final Four(s) Here We Come!,” to center on Wayne Norman’s courtside view of Braylon Mullen’s long buzzer-beater against Duke and the postgame scramble that followed.
Mike and Izzy chat about a printer paper mix-up and their favorite Dunkin' Donuts before introducing a feel-good guest.
Hosts Mike Enright and Izzy Harris introduce Jonal Reynolds, Director of Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at UConn, to discuss her work in fostering inclusive strategies on campus.
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Eric Merkel says UConn's bakery starts at 3:30 a.m.
UConn 360 hosts Mike Enright and Izzy Harris interview Dr.
Rob Landolfi coats the turkey breast with mayonnaise under the skin and drapes thick-cut bacon over it to keep it moist.
NAEP math scores have neared 2019 levels mainly among higher-achieving students, while scores below the 50th percentile have not recovered.
UConn assistant coach Tom Moore discusses his 20-year tenure with the men's basketball program, comparing coaching styles of Jim Calhoun and Dan Hurley.
Vin Moscadelli, director of UConn's Office of National Scholarships and Fellowships, discusses the office's mission to help students compete for prestigious awards like Fulbright and Rhodes.
Professor Penny Vlahos discusses her Arctic research trip to gather sea ice samples and her work on global temperature warming.
Tom Breen and Julie Bartuku introduce episode 114 of UConn 360, discussing listener feedback and upcoming weather-related research initiatives at UConn.
UConn podcast hosts discuss a historic $40 million gift to the School of Nursing from alumna Elizabeth DeLuca.