Blue and Goldcast

Santa's guest is student-athlete Coltyn Liu, who overcame adversity to become a star volleyball player for UBC.

UBC President Santa Ono and history professor Henry Yu discuss Asian History Month which this year is taking place against a background of anti-Asian racism, and racism against other ABIPOC groups and individuals,

UBC Chancellor Steven Point discusses his distinguished career and amazing life with host Santa Ono.

Santa talks to Margaret Moss, the Interim Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion, about her current role and her work with UBC's First Nations House of Learning.

Dr. Julio Montaner shares highlights of his distinguished career in HIV/AIDS research with Santa.

Ars Scientia is an ongoing UBC research excellence cluster which pairs scientists and artists, challenging them to create work that stepped outside of their respective disciplines and bridge the academic gap between arts and science. Today, Santa speaks to Daniel Korchinski and Josephine Lee. Daniel, a physicist, and Josephine, an artist were paired together to create collaborative research that called on both their areas of expertise.

In this episode of the Blue & Goldcast, Santa talks to Nancy Hermiston, chair of UBC's Voice and Opera Division, director of UBC's Opera Ensemble and University Marshall; who Santa describes as "the face of UBC."

In the first episode of the Blue and Goldcast for 2022, Santa Ono talks with two scholars working to improve scholarly integrity at UBC. Dr. Ross Hickey is an associate professor in the Faculty of Management and the Department of Economics, Philosophy and Political Science at UBC’s Okanagan campus. Jacqui Brinkman is the Director of Graduate Student Professional Development at the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Both Ross and Jacqui are involved with UBC's Scholarly Integrity Initiative, which aims to help UBC's researchers and scholars do responsible work.

Santa talks to UBC Journalism professor Peter Klein, the executive director of the Global Reporting Centre, about the future of journalism.

UBC Professor Tina Loo talks to Santa about her research into power, colonialism, and environmental history.