This week, UConn football great Dan Orlovsky talks social media and UConn memories, History professor and Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at UConn’s Humanities Institute Kate Grandjean regales us with the tale of notorious British loyalist serial killers Micajah and Wiley Harpe, and Tom's History Corner gets personal with perhaps the worst building occupation in UConn history (with the best results).

This week, Prof. Mary Burke tells us about how a John Wayne film helped set off an American passion for Irish fashion; Prof. Manisha Sinha explains that history is never as simple as we make it out to be, and we tip our cap to the Daily Campus for digging up a clue to the truth behind an enduring legend about Jonathan the Husky. 

This week, Prof. Scott Wallace talks about an exhibit of photographs and reports from his work as a war correspondent in Central America, student Tahj-Anthony Jean tells us how he became a restaurateur as the owner of Farmhouse Crepes, and we learn about how a UConn yearbook once became a flashpoint in a national debate about youth culture. 

This week, we sit down with Sara Watkins of Nickel Creek and I'm With Her fame to talk about her upcoming performance at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts; learn about Prof. Cathy Schlund-Vials' unconventional route to the academy and how taking complaints about a pizza restaurant played a role in that; and uncover the story of UConn's official colors. 

This week, we learn about how the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts is nurturing young musicians; talk to Thomas Long about what it's like to be the writer-in-residence in the School of Nursing; and learn just how hard it used to be to get classes canceled on account of weather. 

This week, we talk with Prof. Erin Young about genetics and pain management, and the challenges that come with being a woman in science; Ken checks in with Geno Auriemma, Napheesa Collier, and some familiar names from UConn women's basketball; and we look back at a raiding party that sallied north of the border to save Jonathan IV. 

Our last episode of 2018 is a look back at some of our favorite moments, and a look ahead to what the new year might bring. We chase people down for New Year's resolutions, take a quiz, and end the year with UConn students singing "Unclouded Day" in Rome. 

This week, we hear about how UConn journalism students are keeping tabs on Connecticut news coverage; talk with Professor Alexis Boylan about an exhibit featuring the work of a pioneering woman portraitist; and we learn about the debt we owe to a man named Rufus.  

Prof. Kroum Batchvarov takes us beneath the waters of the Black Sea to talk about ancient shipwrecks; we learn how three professors from different disciplines are helping survivors of the Cambodian genocide; and we visit 1950, when a UConn fraternity confronted racial discrimination on behalf of a pledge. 

This week, Prof. Micki McElya talks about the future of Arlington National Cemetery, Prof. Jeffrey Ogbar schools us on the politics of hip hop, and we travel back to a time when Storrs elected its own mayor ... sort of.