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FAQs about CUNYcast:How many episodes does CUNYcast have?The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.
December 07, 2023CUNY’s Transformation SWAT TeamA conversation about CUNY's ambitions for the coming years with Rachel Stephenson and Cathy N. Davidson of the new Office of Transformation....more27minPlay
June 14, 2023The Emergence of Sidik FofanaSidik Fofana, a high school teacher who earned his masters in education at City College, wrote fiction on the side for a decade. He finally got his first book published -- and was awarded a prestigious Whiting Award for Emerging Writers....more30minPlay
January 27, 2023Ryan Martin’s got game. And he’s putting CUNY adaptive sports on the map.Ryan Martin, CUNY's first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, has quickly built a nationally recognized wheelchair basketball program. His focus is on bringing athletes with disabilities to CUNY, but he says it's ultimately not about the game....more24minPlay
October 31, 2022Behind the Closed Doors of a Queens Family StoryQueens College alum Nira Burstein talks about making "Charm Circle," her intensely persona, award-winning documentary about the fractured emotional landscape of her parents' lives in the house in Flushing where Burstein grew up....more19minPlay
April 07, 2022Illuminating the Nazis’ Vast System of GenocideAn immersive new exhibition at Queensborough Community College's renowned Kupferberg Holocaust Center documents the vastness of the Nazi's system of genocide. The center's Laura Cohen and Cary Lane discuss the exhibit and the emotional toll of creating it....more31minPlay
March 21, 2022A Backpack at 75: Ciro Scala’s Long Quest for a CCNY DegreeNearly six decades after he dropped out, Ciro Scala went back to City College, earned two degrees and started a workshop program to help first-generation college students navigate some of the same kinds of challenges that sidetracked his hopes for a college degree....more28minPlay
December 08, 2021Bringing Authenticity to Artistry in Spielberg’s ‘West Side Story’Brooklyn College professor emerita Virginia Sánchez Korrol talks about her role as historical consultant for Steven Spielberg's reimagined "West Side Story" and how she helped portray New York’s Puerto Rican community of the 1950s with more authenticity and nuance....more36minPlay
November 22, 2021A CUNY Professor’s Quest to Rescue Her ‘Literary Family’ from the TalibanZohra Saed, a distinguished lecturer at Macaulay Honors College, and Mayha Ghouri, a CUNY Law School alumna, have mounted a high-stakes campaign to help an imperiled Afghan writer and his family flee Taliban-controlled Afghanistan....more33minPlay
May 27, 2021Imagine That: How John Mogulescu Became the Dean of New ThingsAs he prepares to retire after a prodigious career spanning nearly 50 years, a conversation with the founding father of many of CUNY's most innovative and consequential programs of this century....more45minPlay
March 17, 2021Convincing America to Vax UpCUNY's School of Public Health has launched CONVINCE USA, part of a global project to reduce ungrounded fears and misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines and persuade the resistant that the shot is safe, effective--and necessary to end the pandemic. Dr. Scott Ratzan talks about the challenges and the strategies....more26minPlay
FAQs about CUNYcast:How many episodes does CUNYcast have?The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.