QC POD

On this episode of the QC pod, Natalie Avals talks about how the animated television show Steven Universe teaches lessons on mental wellness. From magical musical numbers, to grounded scenes of dialogue, Natalie takes us through her journey with a show aimed at teaching kids and young adults lessons on mental health, relationships, and supporting emotional intelligence.

Photo Credit. By Cartoon Network, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59644984

This spring, stock market investment took America by storm. It’s never been easier to invest (and lose) money trading without understanding what is happening. In this episode, the QC Pod’s Hanme Cho sits down with Prof Ivy Huang (Accounting and Information Systems) to learn about the stock market.

Photo Credits. Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer. Gold market NY Stock Exchange. United States New York New York State, None. [Between 1975 and 1985] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020734259/.

In this episode of the QC Pod, David Middleton discussed professional basketball with Xavier George talk professional basketball.

Credit. Harris & Ewing, photographer. Basketball. United States, 1936. February 8. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016882053/.

In this episode of the QC Pod, Sidd Malviya interviews Zahra Zakari (Biology) and Cherice Evans (Chemistry) about the craft of research, and opportunities for undergraduates who are interested in doing research. Producer Eden Ayala.

Photo Credit. Historic American Engineering Record, Creator, Lowe, Jet, photographer. Thomas A. Edison Laboratories, Building No. 2, Main Street & Lakeside Avenue, West Orange, Essex County, NJ. New Jersey Essex County West Orange, 1968. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/nj1220/.

The QC Pod’s Eden Ayala explores our obsession with the true crime genre. What is it that captivates people? She engages these questions in an interview with True Crime author and Queens College Professor Harold Schechter.

Photo Credit. By Oslo police – Torgersen-saken, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83378187

Queens College’s Office of Counseling Services is available to talk to students about personal things (relationships, family issues, shyness), school issues (difficulty studying, financial aid appeals), or just about anything else. Many students don’t know it is available, or how it can help.

In today’s episode of the QC Pod, Samatha Galvez-Montiel sits down with Counseling Center Director Barbara Moore.

Queens College Data Analytics just won at a Global Hackathon sponsored by the United Nations! In this episode, the Queens Podcast Lab’s Eden Ayala sits down with the winning team: Esther Jenaro Rabadan, Rachel Ramphal, and Habiba Aziz.

Music journalist Ann Powers was a guest in The Knight News Visiting Journalists Series. Afterwards, she sat down with Jason Tougaw to talk music towns, the role of pleasure and love in music criticism, the racial politics of American music, her close encounters with Prince, Tori Amos, and Bono—and a whole lot more.

Ann Powers is NPR Music’s critic and correspondent. She writes for NPR’s music news blog, The Record, and she can be heard on NPR’s newsmagazines and music programs. One of the nation’s most notable music critics, Powers served as chief pop music critic at the Los Angeles Times from 2006 until she joined NPR in 2011. From 1997 to 2001 Powers was a pop critic at The New York Times and before that worked as a senior editor at the Village Voice. Powers’s books include Weird Like Us: My Bohemian America and Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music.

In this episode, QC student and Knight News journalist Samantha Galvez-Montiel interviews Media Studies faculty member Benjamin Strassfield about the Capitol Hill Invasion and America’s increasingly fraught political culture.

Photo Credits. Irish peg in a rage. Make good the damage you dog, or I’ll cut away your parsnip. Great Britain, 1773. London: Printed for Carington Bowles … Publish’d as the act directs. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/91727535/.

We talk with Urban Studies professor Natalie Vena and pre-dentistry student Tiara Miller about CUNY’s social justice mission, what it has made possible in their own lives, chronic underfunding, and the future of this powerful institution of social mobility. Host Jason Tougaw.