Major Insight

As the editor-in-chief of one of the oldest college newspapers in the country, Chris Vinel takes human interest stories to heart. Chris currently leads a dynamic staff of writers and editors, who connect local and regional events to the college experience.

On this episode, he also talks about keeping a student media organization running during COVID, how journalism can open doors for a variety of career paths, and how students can find the confidence to move forward in school and in life.

Featured Majors: Journalism, Sport Leadership and Management

Featured Organizations: The Miami Student

Jackson Polish aims to help redefine the sport of hockey. As the Founder of SP Analytics, Jackson created a hockey application that makes in-depth analysis of video and in-game data to make strategic decisions during competition. On this episode, he also talks about combining his interests in sport, business, and data analytics to build a future career in the sport industry.

Featured Majors: Sport Leadership and Management, Coaching, General Business

Jannie Kamara came to college with the goal of becoming a leader. Today she is the student body president of the Associated Student Government, where she advocates for more connection and inclusion across the campus and the community.

On this episode, Jannie talks about the importance of diversifying your leadership style, her research on black female civil rights leaders, and how all students can make most out of their college experience.

Featured Majors: Black World Studies, Diversity and Leadership

Featured Organizations & Internships: Associated Student Government, Diversity Affairs Council, Western Program

As a biochemistry major who combines physics and engineering to study self-healing polymers, Jafer Vakil uses chemical reactions to create materials with industrial and commercial applications. His undergraduate work has already earned him multiple publications within the field of polymer chemistry. However, this is not the college career Jafer originally envisioned for himself.

On this episode, he also speaks about his abrupt transition from the liberal arts to the physical sciences, why sometimes the most unexpected path becomes the most profound, and how he overcame fear and doubt along the way.

Featured Majors: Chemistry, Biochemistry, Physics, English Literature

Featured Organizations & Internships: Hughes Internship

The community-building efforts of Madison McGirr are aimed at helping other people thrive. As a sophomore in Miami's interdisciplinary Western Program, she is interested in education reform, reducing poverty, and the effects of gentrification.

Madison's work with nonprofits such as Our Daily Bread in Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as youth-based programs such as Big Brothers, Big Sisters and Dream Keepers, is helping to make local schools and communities more accessible, inclusive, and prosperous for everyone.

Featured Majors & Minors: Individualized Studies (Western Program), Education, Teaching and Learning

As an aspiring Chemical Engineer, with a concentration in Environmental Engineering, Emily Kuehl is using her time as a college student to make our world a cleaner, safer place to live. Her projects involve the detection of arsenic in water and soil samples, as well as research designed to remove other dangerous chemicals from drinking water.

Emily is also a rock climber, trombone player, and a math and music minor. And on this episode, she also talks about her role in designing university classes and how to find a balance between the personal and academic sides of college life.

Featured Majors: Chemical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Mathematics, Music Performance

Connor Moreton wants to blur the lines between business and sustainability. As a double Corporate Sustainability and Marketing major, his work explores the middle ground between the economic, social, and ecological where viable new models can have both profitable and positive worldly effects.

On this episode, Connor also talks about using sales as a powerful tool to identify problems and find solutions, following through on long-term goals, and about reaping the rewards of investing in yourself.

Featured Majors: Corporate Sustainability, Marketing

Career Clusters: Management, Sales and Consulting

Megan Cremeans wants to cause social and political change by exploring the ways in which democracy and education are inseparably intertwined. As an integrated social studies education and political science major, she uses applied policy to find practical ways to fight inequality and injustice, especially in schools where she researches public school funding disparities in Ohio.

On this episode, Megan also talks about representing and empowering students across campus, her rewarding experiences as a student teacher, and how college has helped her become a better leader.

Featured Majors: Integrated Social Studies Education, Political Science

Career Clusters: Education, Nonprofit and Human Services, Law and Government

While following her dream to become a criminal prosecutor, Reagan Brown has learned how to craft eloquent arguments, how to stand up for her beliefs, and how to keep cool in intense situations. As a comparative religion and psychology major, she has studied the controversial views of the Westboro Baptist Church during a faculty-led project designed to understand religious extremism.

On this episode, Reagan also talks about the value of understanding different viewpoints and the power of empathy to change the world.

Featured Majors: Comparative Religion, Psychology, Pre-Law

Featured Organizations: Miami University Ohio Innocence Project, Parent Child Interaction Lab

Career Clusters: Law and Government

In this episode, we dive deep into the heart of human nature by hearing how the humanities can be a powerful way to learn more about ourselves, about the world, and each other.

We'll also get to know more about the new host of this podcast, Peter Everett. As a double history and comparative religion major, Peter's research touches upon the value that can be found in studying the people and the places that are often overlooked.

Featured Majors: History, Comparative Religion, Political Science, Literature, Philosophy

Featured Awards, Scholarships, and Organizations: University Honors Program