The 1853 Podcast

Communication studies’ Chris Goble previews College Radio Day on Oct. 2; communication studies’ Aimee Miller (pictured) discusses her fan fiction talk on Sept. 29 during and Banned Books Week (8:34).

Classics professor Bob Simmons (pictured) on Classics Day V, set for Oct. 2; and Rep. Cheri Bustos delivers fifth-annual Wiswell-Robeson Lecture (9:31).

Fighting Scots Marching Band Interim Director Elissa Kana (pictured) on getting the band back together; political science professor Andre Audette discusses the impact of 9/11 and an upcoming Sept. 14 panel about the event (6:08).

Spanish professor Jennifer Thorndike previews the third edition of the Latin American & Latino Film Festival; art professors Brian Baugh and Stephanie Baugh discuss the 2021-22 season in the Len G. Everett Gallery (6:18).

Meet two of the friendly folks from OSF HealthCare who are taking care of Monmouth students at the student health clinic -- Kari Bruening and Michelle Jones. The Educational Farm & Garden crew extol the benefits of spending a summer immersed in the land.

In the final episode of the season, the staff of the Midwest Journal of Undergraduate Research celebrates its double issue; Voice of Fighting Scots Nate Baliva recaps the spring season of Monmouth athletics.

Meet award-winning students Emily Krueger ’21, Larissa Pothoven ’24 (6:40)and Samuel Stoyanoff ’24 (9:04); the Voice of Fighting Scots Athletics Nate Baliva (11:32) gives an update of spring sports; and coach Chris Klaiber (13:46) on the historic win by men’s lacrosse.

Associate Vice President of Student Life & Co-Deans of Students Michelle Merritt and Karen Ogorzalek on the new student health center, the return of fall sports and a busy spring on campus.

This week’s guests: art professor Stephanie Baugh, music professor Stacy Dziuk and educational studies professor Michelle Holschuh Simmons on the new art education major; Sports Information Director Nathan Baliva provides an update on spring sports (11:38).

This week’s guests: political science Audre Audette previews the campus’ Law Day celebration on April 21; College historian and editor Jeff Rankin explains the 19th-century origins of Scots Day of Giving (7:39).