UConn 360: The UConn Podcast

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.