CUNYcast Podcast
1) The Emergence of Sidik Fofana
Sidik Fofana started out writing rap songs as a kid, but it was fiction that really took hold when he was in college. It was a passion, if not a realistic career ambition, and so he kept at it while e...Show More
2) Ryan Martin’s Got Game. And He’s Putting CUNY Adaptive Sports on the Map.
As CUNY’s first director of inclusive and adaptive sports, Ryan Martin has quickly built a program featuring men’s and women’s wheelchair basketball teams that compete against colleg...Show More
3) Imagine That: How John Mogulescu Became the Dean of New Things
John Mogulescu is affectionately regarded as the founding father of many of CUNY’s most innovative and consequential programs of this century. He’s been an unstoppable force and a guiding ...Show More
4) Convincing America to Vax Up
The nation’s supply of Covid vaccines is opening up rapidly, but will vaccine hesitancy –and refusal– prevent us from reaching the 75 to 85 percent vaccination rate needed to end the...Show More
5) Derek Fordjour Captures the Eye — and the Moment
The turmoil of 2020 was a canvas for Derek Fordjour’s provocative multidisciplinary art. An alumnus of Hunter College’s MFA program, Fordjour had a breakthrough year with two critically acclaime...Show More
6) Vaccinating America: ‘There’s some chaos going on. And we can’t have that’
A new year conversation with Dr. Bruce Y. Lee of the CUNY School of Public Health and Health Policy on the state of vaccines, the threat of the mutated virus and what the Biden administration needs to...Show More
7) Photo Finish: Stan Wolfson’s Life in Pictures
Stan Wolfson looks back on his 60-year career as a New York newspaper photographer and photo editor--from covering the biggest news events to his 16 years as the photo editor for CUNY's digital and pr...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.8) CUNY Is the Plot Twist in Walter Mosley’s Life
Walter Mosley was a 35-year-old computer programmer when he enrolled in the graduate writing program at City College in 1987. Just three years later–while still a student–he publis...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.9) The Doyenne of African American Cuisine
Jessica Harris never set out to become the country’s foremost authority on African American cuisine. Her doctoral dissertation was about French Theatre in Senegal, and she went on to a 50-year c...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.10) Maestro of the Virtual Flash Mob
When the pandemic came in March, Harrison Sheckler, a pianist in the masters program at the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, went home to Iowa to wait it out. And then he had this idea. He s...Show More
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