Early childhood education expert and advocate Vail Shoultz-McCole discusses the need for green spaces, why universal preschool is a big step in the right direction for equal opportunity and the role nature plays in growth and development.

Chef and culinary instructor Wayne Smith explains why local produce tastes better and what the restaurant industry is doing to help make the world a better place.

This week co-hosts Kelsey Coleman and David Ludlam speak with Dr. Aparna Palmer about what it was like growing up in India and her journey immigrating to the United States at just eight years old. Aparna Palmer, PhD, is the assistant vice president for academic affairs for student and faculty success and a biology professor. On the podcast Palmer talks about how a friendship changed her life, a turning point she had in college that led to her sunny disposition and what life was like for her family in a new country.

A Pedagogy of Kindness is about finding compassion in any given situation. Colorado Mesa University Professor of Sociology Brenda Wilhelm, PhD, applies this pedagogical practice is in her classroom every day. Listen in as Wilhelm delves into her class on gender, what constitutes a family and the powerful moment that changed her trajectory.

The first segment of this half hour show features Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs for Student and Faculty Success Aparna Palmer, PhD, and Physician Assistant Studies Program student Alisha Johansson. Palmer details an important upcoming event at CMU called Student Showcase, which celebrates the creativity, research, innovation, entrepreneurship and artistic performance of CMU and WCCC students. Johansson is participating in Student Showcases and speaks about her bicycle friendly campus project as well as her experiences before and during the PA program.

The second segment features Graduate Admissions Coordinator Nichelle Chandler. Chandler speaks about the plethora of graduate programs offered at CMU and why someone would want to pursue one of these degrees. She also discusses some little known facts about CMU graduates programs. Listen now to find out more. (Episode 23, aired Apr. 13, 2021)

CMUnow Special Edition podcast hosts and Colorado Mesa University Assistant Professor of History Timothy Winegard, PhD, discuss everything from cancel culture to Star Wars. Originally from Canada, Winegard’s dream was to be a hockey star. Instead, he created the CMU hockey team and wrote the New York Times Best Seller The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator.

CMUnow Podcast co-hosts Kelsey Coleman and David Ludlam talk human sexuality and feminism with Colorado Mesa University Associate Professor of Psychology Nikki Jones, PhD.

Colorado Mesa University Professor of Political Science Justin Gollob, PhD, and co-hosts Kelsey Coleman and David Ludlam, discuss if genetics play a role in ideology, Gollob's diverse media diet and how politics is made up of shades of grey. From Colorado's 3rd Congressional District to Lyndon Johnson, to The Beatles and Kid Rock— it’s a politics podcast like you've never heard before.

Plant pathologist and Colorado Mesa University Associate Professor of Biology Margot Becktell, PhD, discusses her research on the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine, the hidden warrior traits of the petunia and, what Becktell calls, her "flesh eating fungi project".

Katlin Birdsall and David Ludlam delve deeper with Grand Junction Police Chief Doug Shoemaker. They discuss everything from policing in the Grand Junction community and challenges facing the policing profession to recruiting candidates including those from Western Colorado Community College’s POST Academy and the variety of opportunities available through GJPD. (Special edition podcast, recorded March 10, 2021)