College on the Radio

College on the Radio with guest Carmen Amato, 9-20-26

KYMN Radio — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with former CIA analyst and author Carmen Amato about her career with the CIA, her crime thriller novels, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Justice Gordon Moore 9-6-26

KYMN Radio — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 16:50:45 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Minnesota Supreme Court Associate Justice Gordon Moore.

College on the Radio with guest Mary Carlsen, 8-30-26

KYMN Radio — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Professor Emerita of Social Work and Family Studies Mary Carlsen about dignity in dying, her experience working on the front lines of the AIDS epidemic and how witnessing so much death at a young age changed her own understanding of mortality, what is medical aid in dying, what we can learn from people who face death with remarkable courage and acceptance, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Alison Byerly, 6-10-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College President Alison Byerly about why she feels it is important to still teach undergraduate students in the classroom in her role as President, what about studying and teaching English and Literature courses prepared her to become President of Carleton, what are the biggest challenges facing higher education today, is the purpose of a college education larger than fostering intellectual growth and preparing students for professional careers, the importance of a Liberal Arts education in the age of artificial intelligence, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Andreia Carrillo, 6-3-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Andreia Carrillo about galactic archeology, how the Milky Way was formed and how it has evolved over time, what are the building blocks that make up a galaxy, how stars are born and how they die, if there is other life in the galaxy, what is the ultimate fate of the Milky Way, and more.

College on the Radio with guest John Barbour, 5-13-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Professor Emeritus of Religion John Barbour about his teaching and writing in virtue and ethics, self-assessment, loss of faith, solitude, de-conversion, transformation, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Cary Griffith, 5-6-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Minnesota author Cary Griffith about his writing process, writing fictional mysteries and what they ultimately say about reality, each of his books, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest William North, 4-29-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton Professor of History William North about his research in Medieval History, what aspects of the Middle Ages he is most interested in, why it is important to study the Humanities, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Tristan Cox, 4-22-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:35:24 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with certified financial planner Tristan Cox about when in life it's a good idea to begin investing, the benefits of 529's and Roth IRA's, if it's ever too late to begin an investment plan, the phases of retirement and how to best prepare for those phases, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Diane LeBlanc, 4-15-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:23:02 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Professor Diane LeBlanc about her career as a Professor of Writing in Wyoming and at St. Olaf College, discuss her work including readings from her book titled The Feast Delayed, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Logan Kochendorfer, 4-8-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:09:09 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Professor of Developmental Psychology about how much who we become as adults is shaped by early childhood, how children from homes with neglect and abuse outgrow these negative experiences and thrive, how young adults are developing much differently than previous generations due to technology, parasocial connections with social media influencers, and much more.

College on the Radio with Guest Dr. Joel Weisberg, pt. 2

KYMN Radio — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik continues his conversation with Dr. Joel Weisberg about the origins of Cosmology and Dr. Weisberg's studies of the universe.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Rika Anderson, 3-25-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:18:55 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College Environmental Microbiologist Dr. Rika Anderson about her background in oceanography and astrobiology, if research studying hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor helps scientists better understand where life may exist elsewhere in the universe, is it possible that life on Earth was seeded from elsewhere in the universe, the topic of genomic research, her work on the PBS science documentary series Nova, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Mary Savina, 3-18-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:29:39 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes back Carleton College Professor Emerita of Geology and Environmental Studies Mary Savina to discuss tectonic plates, Pangea, continental drift, how our oceans were formed, Earth greenhouse, and icehouse states, our planet's magnetic field, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Rob Jung, 3-11-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:52:54 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes Minnesota attorney, author, publisher, and podcast producer Rob Jung, and they discuss him beginning to write novels at age 75, his mystery and historical fiction books, his writing process, the podcast he produces, and much more.

College on the radio with guest Carleton President Emeritus Steve Poskanzer 2/25/26

KYMN Radio — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:41:47 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College President Emeritus and current Political Science professor at Carleton Steve Poskanzer about his new book, The University's Voice - Principled Silence and Purposeful Speech, about when it is appropriate, necessary and ill advised for a public institution to take a stance on a given issue.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Anne Gothman 2-11-26

KYMN Radio — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:30:43 -0600

Host Joe Moravchick welcomes St. Olaf College Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Physics Anne Gothman to the show. They discuss her work in paleoenvironmental ocean research, her study of coral reefs, and the natural drivers of climate change.

St. Olaf College on the Radio Week - Professor Caleb Schmotter, 2-4-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 12:02:46 -0600

St. Olaf College and KYMN Radio partners with Professor Christopher Chapp and his students in a course on media and politics. As part of the project, students researched, wrote, produced, and hosted on-air programming for KYMN's St. Olaf College on the Radio Week.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science Caleb Schmotter discusses his research in judicial independence, court curving, what it means for democracy, and much more.

College on the Radio with guests John Olson and David Bruns, 2-4-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:53:38 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes writing team John Olson and David Bruns. They are Naval Academy graduates and were both at the Yard, though they never crossed paths. Years later, after John served on an aircraft carrier and on amphibious assault ships and David in the submarine force, they met at a conference for veterans and began a writing partnership. They now have fourteen books together in the thriller-fiction genre. They talk about all this and more on this week's episode of College on the Radio.

St. Olaf College on the Radio Week - Professor Diane Angell, 2-3-26

KYMN Radio — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:06:01 -0600

Professor Diane Angell is an Associate Professor of Practice in Biology at St. Olaf. On this episode, they discuss local prairies, critters, community action, and the ethics of human intervention in nature through an expert perspective in the field, and much more.

St. Olaf College on the Radio Week - Professor Ryan Dawkins, 2-2-26

KYMN Radio — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:02:26 -0600

Professor Ryan Dawkins is a current professor of Political Science at Carleton College, teaching advanced classes around American politics, mass political attitudes, and behavior to American political institutions. They discuss his career, research, his upcoming book, America's Two Majorities, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Allison Luedtke, 1-28-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes St. Olaf College Associate Professor of Economics Allison Luedtke to discuss network economics, computational economics, the affects of artificial intelligence on the U.S. economy, and her Substack titled The Rest is Tenacity, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Giulia Dossi, 1-21-26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes St. Olaf College Professor of Russian Language and Area Studies Giulia Dossi where they discuss her experience living and studying in St. Petersburg and Moscow, her preparation for her future course about Russian and Ukrainian literature, and touch on certain areas in her current research including historical contagions and epidemics in Eastern Europe, nineteenth-century Russian Realism and Writing in the Medical Humanities, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Eric Brever 1/7/26

KYMN Radio — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes Attorney and Teacher of Sports Law Eric Brever, where they discuss name, image and likeness, and financial opportunities and its effect on athletics.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Susan Jaret McKinstry 12-10-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:43:15 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes Carleton College Professor Emerita Susan Jaret McKinstry to the program. She taught in the English Department at Carleton for nearly 40 years. They'll discuss her career — including teaching abroad in Ireland and Russia, author Virginia Woolf's work, why storytelling matters, and Professor Jaret McKinstry reads from her book of poetry titled Tumblehome. This and much more on this week's episode of College on the Radio.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Rod Christensen, 12-3-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Rod Christensen, primary care physician and former president of Allina Clinic, about preventative screenings, lifestyle choices for healthy living, advances in healthcare, his upcoming course titled "Dementia: Biology, Prevention, Treatment, and Response," and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Wiebke Kuhn, 11-26-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:25:43 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton College Director of Academic Technology Dr. Wiebke Kuhn about her technology leadership role, emerging technologies, language learning models like ChatGPT, the benefits and ethical concerns of artificial intelligence, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Musicologist Dr. Louis Epstein 11/19/25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Louis Epstein, a professor of Musicology at St. Olaf College, about creating music, how music affects social and political climates, and why he does not see AI as a threat to music creation.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Mary Savina 11/12/25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Carleton College Professor Emerita of Geology and a Board Member of the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium Mary Savina discusses learning about the history of our planet through its minerals, and the possibility that we are living in an extinction era. Hosted by Joe Moravchik.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Anthony Becker, the Minnesota State Economist 11-5-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:00:00 -0600

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Professor of Economics Anthony Becker about his role as the Minnesota State Economist, and the state of Minnesota's economy.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Joel Weisberg, part 1 10-22-25

KYMN Radio — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:55:47 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Physicist and Astronomer Dr. Joel Weisberg about Pulsars, the differences between optical and radio astronomy, and why the stars look different in the Southern Hemisphere from the way the look in the Northern Hemisphere.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Seth Kimbrell, 10-22-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik welcomes back Carleton visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Seth Kimbrell, where they discuss supermassive black holes and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Emeritus D.E. Green, 10-15-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik speaks with Professor Emeritus D.E. Green from Augsburg University about one of the great writers and playwrights in all of history William Shakespeare, as well as some of Green's own poetry and the inspiration for it, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Norman Lee, 10-8-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 09:41:06 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Associate Professor of Biology and Neuroethologist Dr. Norman Lee about how animals like crickets, flies, frogs, and spiders sense, process, and respond to the world around them and use sound in decision making. Additionally, how does this type of research benefit neuroscience?

College on the Radio with guest Asst. Professor Ryan Terrien 10-1-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchick speaks with Carleton College Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy about his work searching for exoplanets and trying to answer the question of whether life exists outside of planet Earth.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Thomas Drucker, 9-24-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 10:19:41 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Vice Chair of the Board Governing the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium and retired Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics Thomas Drucker about whether math is an invention or a discovery, course offerings at the local collegium, Israel-Palestine and science and religion, Sherlock Holmes, the future of chess, and much more.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Karil Kucera, 9-3-25

KYMN Radio — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:20:18 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Art and Art History, Asian Studies and Russian Language and Area Studies Professor Karil Kucera about her research centered on sacred sites across Asia through a variety of theoretical lenses, her interest in 20th century Chinese visual culture, and issues related to the art of teaching.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Naafey Sardar, 9-10-25

KYMN Radio — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:20:04 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf Assistant Professor of Economics and Interim Director of Business and Management Studies Naafey Sardar about his courses, his research in Macroeconomics, Energy Economics, and Applied Time Series Econometrics, and more.

College on the Radio with guest Dr. Patricia Johnson 9/17/25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Dr. Patricia Johnson, who chairs the board of the Cannon Valley Elder Collegium, and specializes in hermeneutics, or the study of interpretation.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Steve Hahn, 8-27-25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:27:06 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Distinguished Professor of History Steve Hahn about piracy in colonial North America and the Caribbean, the pardoning of over 200 pirates at this time, and much more from his book A Pirate’s Life No More: The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Seth Kimbrell, 8/20/25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with Carleton visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Seth Kimbrell about NASA’s Artemis program, why it’s important to return to the moon, the societal benefits and challenges of manned space travels to Mars, the findings and results from the Juno probe studying Jupiter, and more.

College on the Radio with guest Professor Will Leeson 8/13/25

KYMN Radio — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0500

Host Joe Moravchik talks with St. Olaf College Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science Will Leeson about the history and the future of computing, coding, and artificial intelligence.