University Showcase

Megan Kamerick

Interviews with students, teachers and researchers doing interesting work at the University of New Mexico.

  • 28 minutes 10 seconds
    New poetry anthology highlights voices from around New Mexico
    On this episode, a new anthology of New Mexico poets highlights themes of community, culture, history and landscape. We talk with Associate Professor Levi Romero and his co-editor, Poet Michelle Otero, about the collection, "New Mexico Poetry Anthology 2023." And we revisit an interview from last year with filmmaker turned author Ramona Emerson about her debut novel “Shutter.”
    17 March 2024, 8:13 pm
  • 28 minutes 10 seconds
    UNM grad named CNN Hero of the Year for his work as a street vet
    On this episode University of New Mexico graduate Dr. Kwane Stewart talks about the organization he created, Project Street Vet. Stewart offers judgement-free veterinary care to the pets of people who are unhoused.
    23 February 2024, 9:39 pm
  • 28 minutes 10 seconds
    UNM grad named CNN Hero of the Year for his work as a street vet
    On this episode University of New Mexico graduate Dr. Kwane Stewart talks about the organization he created, Project Street Vet. Stewart offers judgement-free veterinary care to the pets of people who are unhoused.
    21 February 2024, 12:55 am
  • 27 minutes 27 seconds
    Professor works to create a mental health center in the West Bank
    On this episode we talk about traumatic stress in conflict areas with Lori Rudolph, whose research has focused on the West Bank of Palestine.
    16 February 2024, 4:55 pm
  • 28 minutes 19 seconds
    UNM law professor's contributions to Native American rights garners national recognition
    On this episode we talk with Professor Emerita Gloria Valencia-Weber. She recently received the Pierce-Hickerson Award from the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association. The award honors law professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement or preservation of Native American rights.
    25 January 2024, 1:19 pm
  • 27 minutes 27 seconds
    Professor works to create a mental health center in the West Bank
    On this episode we talk about traumatic stress in conflict areas with Lori Rudolph, whose research has focused on the West Bank of Palestine.
    15 December 2023, 11:06 pm
  • 28 minutes 41 seconds
    Graduate students strut their research stuff at LoboBITES
    Every year graduate students at the University of New Mexico present their research in 3-minute long talks, competing to advance to a regional competition. The idea is to help grad students learn to present their work succinctly to audiences. We talk with several graduate researchers.
    24 November 2023, 4:13 pm
  • 28 minutes 52 seconds
    How the spike in book challenges hurts libraries and intellectual freedom
    On this episode we talk with Deirdre Caparoso about explosion of challenges against libraries and books. She is outreach and community engagement librarian at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center. She is also chair of the intellectual freedom committee for the New Mexico Library Association.
    18 August 2023, 2:52 pm
  • 28 minutes 59 seconds
    Author details the nuclear 'colonization' of New Mexico
    On this episode Associate Professor Myrriah Gomez talks about her book “Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos.”
    18 August 2023, 2:50 pm
  • 28 minutes 49 seconds
    A new graduate and a professor use challenges to create support networks and art
    On this episode two women, one a recent University of New Mexico graduate and one a professor in the UNM Honors College, talk about overcoming some serious challenges and how they used those experiences to create. Professor Amaris Ketchum used comic-style diary entries to process her husband's kidney cancer. Her new book is "Unfiltered: A Cancer Year Diary." And new graduate Adrianna Morales has become a passionate advocate for supporting sexual assault survivors after finding a lack of support following her own assault.
    23 May 2023, 10:55 pm
  • 27 minutes 56 seconds
    Researchers will study MDMA-assisted therapy for opioid addiction; Book re-examines humans' impact on the environment
    On this episode a researcher talks about a new study that will use MDMA-assisted therapy to help new mothers with opioid addiction, and a new book re-examines humans impact on the environment.
    21 April 2023, 3:47 pm
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