Episode 37: Orange Gowns, strategic communications and Chipotle, with Hannah Ratigan

Hannah Ratigan was the type of student who walked around campus when she had free time – which was rare. So the way her undergraduate experience finished, with COVID-19 restrictions, was especially...

Episode 36: A life in local media and career advice (be a quitter), with Jason Collington

Jason Collington is a Stillwater native who grew up reading the Tulsa World. After his 1998 graduation from OSU in what is now the School of Media and Strategic Communications, he worked for the...

Episode 35: Nonprofits and following your dreams, with Becky Endicott and Jon McCoy

Imagine you work at a nonprofit, where the hours are long, the cause is so big that it can feel overwhelming, and the pay is less than what is available in the corporate world. But you believe so...

Episode 34: Wrongful convictions and legal system reform, with Michelle Estes

We are in the midst of a national conversation about many topics related to the American legal system. Though virtually everyone agrees that a just system is ideal, there are disagreements over how...

Episode 33: COVID-19 data and statistical modeling, with Mindy McCann

As COVID-19 became a global pandemic, Governor Kevin Stitt asked experts across Oklahoma to create models projecting how it would affect the state. One of those models came from a team at OSU,...

Episode 32: How and when the COVID-19 pandemic might end, with Jennifer Rudd

Jennifer Rudd has studied pandemics and respiratory infectious diseases for years. She is a CAS biology graduate who went on to earn two more degrees at OSU’s College of Veterinary Medicine, where she...