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Well Said: 2016

Our favorite podcasts of the year: From the presidential elections to innovations in the classroom, Carolina’s faculty, staff and students gave us a lot to talk about in 2016.

From the presidential elections to innovations in the classroom to archeology fieldwork in Israel, Carolina’s faculty, staff and students gave us a lot to talk about in 2016.

Here are our favorite Well Said podcasts of the year:

  • Episode 14: Student body president Bradley Opere talked about his unconventional path to Carolina and his goals for the campus heading into the 2016 school year
  • Episode 24: With the elections officially wrapped up, we dove into the demographics that impacted the presidential election with Thomas Carsey, the Thomas J. Pearsall Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the director of the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science.
  • Episode 17: Professors Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy discussed how they are transforming their classrooms to be more interactive and inclusive — an effort that has helped overcome achievement gaps.
  • Episode 15: As the campus revved up for the football season, Voice of the Tar Heels Jones Angell previewed the season and talked about his broadcast career.
  • Episode 9: Barry M. Popkin, W. R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health shared how sugar taxes may be crucial to fighting the increase of obesity in the United States.