Prior to her April 24, 2013, appearance at UD in the Center for Political Communication's Global Agenda program series, Rebecca MacKinnon talked with us about many of the issues that she cares about deeply: Internet governance, de-centralized citizen journalists, attempts to control or censor the 'Net, attempts to keep it free. Her main point: If individuals don't speak up when we don't like what's happening to the 'Net, then we may find the Internet a more confined place.

Anu Sivaraman uses twitter, learning management systems, blogs, and other technology tools to keep her students engaged with the material in her marketing classes. She has found that students are more enthusiastic and retain material from their twitter conversations with her!

The Special Collections Exhibitions in the University of Delaware's Morris Library present fascinating snapshots of the UD Library's holdings. Rebecca and Maureen discussed a lot of the exhibitions, focusing on two current when they appeared on April 4, 2013: In Focus--The history of photography and The World of the Graphic Novel. We also played excerpts of an interview with Deavon Church, the curator for the graphic novel exhibition.

Deavon curated the UD Library's World of the Graphic Novel exhibition. This is the complete 13 minute interview we conducted with Devon as part of our April 4, 2013, broadcast about the Library's Special Collections Exhibitions.

Susan Strasser looks at the economics of domestic life in America through the lens of the kitchen window--from both sides! Strasser's wide-raning work connects lot of apparently divergent little things into a related picture of American consumer culture.

Four students came into the studio and shared some of their experiences as members of UD's Engineering without Borders chapter. The students completed two projects recently: a bridge in Guatemala, a water system in Cameroon.

Benjamin Fleury-Steiner talked about his book Disposable Heroes: The Betrayal of African American Veterans. As a military veteran himself, he knows the difficulty some veterans have integrating back into society after a tour of combat duty.

Debbie Delaney talks about European settlers bringing honeybees over from Europe, the career of a honeybee (which changes jobs every couple of weeks), the other kinds of bees in North America, Africanized bees, some of her extension projects, and Dare to Bee Honey. Who knew how important bumblebees are to Delaware's watermelon crop.

Rob Steiner chatted with us about several of the trends in blended and online education prior to his coming to campus to address the UD Winter Faculty Institute.

Judi Provencal has been fascinated by the night sky since she was a little girl. She shares some of her excitement with us, in particular talking about the Whole Earth Telescope project.