Wboi Presents

On this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session, we are joined by Michael Bechill, Associate Professor of Biology at the University of Saint Francis.Our conversation focused on viruses, pandemics, COVID-19, and vaccines. What are some historical precedents for our current pandemic? How do viruses work? We’ll focus on the science on this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session. Our theme music is by Noah Campodonico. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. This episode was produced with help from WBOI Intern Louis Richey. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Alex Castonzo, Steve Mullaney, Kyle Norbeck, Mariah Roberts, Diahmynd Thomas, Mikaela Veltum, and Sydney Wagner.You can find other episodes of WBOI Presents: In Session here.

For this week’s show, we’ll hear a talk recorded as part of the Values, Ideas, and the Arts series at Manchester University. Lessons from The Federalist for Our Times comes from David Lay Williams, professor of political science at DePaul University. This presentation was originally recorded at Manchester University’s Constitution Day celebration in September of 2019. Special thanks to Anne Gregory for providing the audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Alex Castonzo, Steve Mullaney, Kyle Norbeck, Mariah Roberts, Diahmynd Thomas, Mikaela Veltum, and Sydney Wagner.

Law Day was celebrated on May 1st. The Allen County Bar Association hosts a panel discussion annually for the event. This week, we have a virtual panel moderated by Rachel Blakeman, Director of the Community Research Institute at Purdue University Fort Wayne Panelists include: W. Paul Helmke Jr, former mayor of Fort Wayne Reverend Bill McGill, Founding Senior Pastor at Imani Baptist Temple Cathleen Schrader, senior council at Barrett McNagny Special thanks to Gina Zimmerman, Executive Director of the Allen County Bar Association, and all participants in the panel for making this program possible. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

All IN is a live, statewide talk show about interesting things happening in Indiana, hosted by Mariam Sobh. This week, the show is making its debut on WBOI Presents. You can tune into the live broadcast on All IN on 89.1 WBOI on Friday afternoons at 1pm. We’ve seen reports for years now about the decline of local news in America. Articles about the current state of local publications across the country often call it a national crisis, and one without an obvious solution. On this episode of All IN, we will hear about why this is happening, what effect corporate buyouts have on newspapers, and whether independent sources and social media can replace local newsrooms. All IN is produced by Drew Daudelin. Guests: Bob Zaltsberg Special Projects Editor, WFIU/WTIU News; Former Editor, The Herald-Times Jonas Bjork Professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations, IUPUI Joshua Darr Assistant Professor of Political Communication, Louisiana State University

Purdue University Fort Wayne’s Teaching English as a New Language Program prepares students for teaching English to speakers of other languages. With how much has happened in Myanmar this past year, we’ll hear from students, professors, and community members who bring a variety of perspectives to language learning, international affairs, and citizen diplomacy This week, we have a virtual panel moderated by Andy Downs, Director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics. The panelists are listed below in the order they are introduced in the program. Mary Encabo, Continuing Lecturer in Linguistics at PFW Caitlyn Bushnell, PFW student Joshua Heckelsmiller, PFW student Natalie Kage, PFW student Tom Herr, Fort Wayne Sister Cities International Inc., former president Jamie Toole, Associate Professor of Political Science at PFW Special thanks to Andy Downs and all of the panelists for making this program possible. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web pro

This week’s program comes from Manchester University’s Values, Ideas and the Arts series. We’ll hear from David Luke, interim diversity officer and director at University of Michigan-Flint, about how systemic racism and sociology inform his approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Special thanks to Anne Gregory for providing the audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

We are focusing on election law this month on WBOI Presents. Last week, we heard a virtual civil conversation from AVOW. This week, we have a virtual panel from the Allen County Bar Foundation moderated by Andy Downs, Director of the Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics. Panelists include: Beth Dlug, Director of Elections at Allen County Election Board, Zach Klutz, member of the Indiana Election Commission, and Tim Pape, member of the Allen County Election Board. Special thanks to Andy Downs and all of the panelists for making this program possible. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

This week, we are once again hearing from our friends from Advancing Voices Of Women for a civil conversation about voting. Panelists include: Jeff Brantley, Senior Vice President of Political Affairs & Foundation for the Indiana Chamber of Commerce Beth Dlug, Director of Elections at Allen County Election Board Angela Nussmeyer, Co-Director of the Indiana Election Division Mike Wolf, Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Purdue University Fort Wayne Special thanks to AVOW founders Patti Hays, Rachel Tobin-Smith, Marilyn Moran-Townsend and Faith Van Gilder for organizing this event and providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Alex Castonzo, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

This week, we are once again hearing from our friends from Advancing Voices Of Women for a virtual event about serving on boards and commissions. Amanda Muldoon, who oversees Profiles in Public Service for AVOW, moderated this discussion, featuring Commissioner Therese Brown and the City's Intergovernmental Relations Director Stephanie Crandall. Special thanks to AVOW founders Patti Hays, Rachel Tobin-Smith, Marilyn Moran-Townsend and Faith Van Gilder for organizing this event and providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, Kurt Roembke, and Hope Arthur. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

The insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6 provided a starting point for many conversations about white supremacy, toxic masculinity, and misinformation. We’ll hear a panel discussion from faculty and staff at Purdue University Fort Wayne looking at how misinformation is spread and can lead to violence. This conversation was recorded in the aftermath of not only the events of January 6, but also a stickering of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Campus by the far-right group Patriot Front. The moderator for the panel was Ann Marshall, Information Services & Instruction Librarian at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Panelists include: Janet Badia, Professor & Director of the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University Fort Wayne Steve Carr, Professor of Communication & Director of the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Purdue University Fort Wayne Chris Erickson, Associate Professor of History at Purdue University Fort Wayne Erika Mann, Director of Digital Initiatives & Scholarship at H

The WBOI NPR Speaker Series resumed in 2021 as a virtual event featuring NPR Morning Edition Host and Reporter Noel King. What led Noel King to NPR? How has it been hosting from home during the last year? What have been some of King’s most important personal and professional inspirations? We'll hear answers to those questions and others in a Q&A led by WBOI's Zach Bernard. Special thanks to the entire WBOI staff, including our news team, for making this event possible. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

This week, we are once again hearing from our friends from Advancing Voices Of Women for a civil conversation about women in politics. Panelists include: Ashley Martin, President of US Youth Senate Harriet Miller, Founder and CEO of The Women’s Bureau, now retired Representative Cherrish Pryor, Representing the 94th District in the General Assembly since 2008 Whitley Yates, Director of Diversity & Engagement, Indiana Republican State Committee Special thanks to AVOW founders Patti Hays, Rachel Tobin-Smith, Marilyn Moran-Townsend and Faith Van Gilder for organizing this event and providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

On this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session, we are joined by Barton Price, Lecturer in the School of Music at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Our conversation focused on the impact of radio on the earliest days of rock & roll, as well as its specific impact on some genres and bands. How did radio influence early artists like Chuck Berry and Bob Dylan? What scandals nearly derailed rock & roll programming? How was Queen’s cultural resonance even louder thanks to radio and other mediums? We’ll answer those questions and more on this episode of WBOI Presents: In Session. Our theme music is by Noah Campodonico. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

Since February of 2019, 89.1 WBOI has made podcasts available to listen on demand across platforms such as Spotify, Stitcher, or TuneIn. In January of 2021, our station began broadcasting podcasts during the six p.m. hour on Saturdays for a show called The WBOI Podcast Cafe. During this show, we’ll hear from podcast producers and creators from northeast Indiana. We’ve partnered with several local creatives to make their programs available over the airwaves and create podcasts in our own studios. We’ll highlight Heart of the Hustle, & Good Company, Women Are: Fort Wayne, and Act of Listening as well as shows we produce like The I In Immigrant, WBOI Artcentric, and WBOI Presents. Special thanks to Founders Spark, Monstrous Regiment Media, and Thinkbox Strategies for providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodico, and Kurt Roembke, with additional music from KelsiCote. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydne

This week’s episode of WBOI Presents comes from Indiana Public Broadcasting. We’ll join state leaders as they discuss Indiana’s talent pipeline, focusing on the future of learning, the future of work and the future of Indiana. The conversation will feature Indiana Commissioner for Higher Education Teresa Lubbers, Indiana Department of Workforce Development Commissioner Fred Payne and Indiana Secretary of Education Dr. Katie Jenner. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner. Until next time. Thank you for listening.

On this week’s episode of WBOI Presents, we are featuring a radio play performance of Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad. The Penelopiad retells The Odyssey from the points of view of Odysseus’s wife, Penelope, and her handmaidens. Residing in Hades for eternity, the thirteen female spirits reminisce on their lives in Ithaca before and after the Trojan War’s end. In this radio play performance, the Greek chorus of handmaidens continually interrupts Penelope’s narrative to express their views on events. Using a different genre for each chorus, the maids’ interludes make for a lively aural experience that include a jump-rope rhyme, a lament, an idyll, a ballad, a lecture, a court trial, and several types of songs. Special thanks to Susan Domer, Beverly Redman, John Buteyn, and the Purdue University Fort Wayne Department of Theatre for making this program possible. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenshi

This week, we are once again hearing from our friends from Advancing Voices Of Women for a civil conversation about climate change. Panelists include Marcia Veldman, Indiana State Co-Coordinator at Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Melissa Widhalm, Operations Manager at the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, and Jesse Kharbanda, Executive Director at the Hoosier Environmental Council. Special thanks to AVOW founders Patti Hays, Rachel Tobin-Smith, Marilyn Moran-Townsend and Faith Van Gilder for organizing this event and providing audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

This week’s program comes from Manchester University’s Values, Ideas and the Arts series. We’ll hear from Fort Wayne City Councilman Glynn Hines, a 1973 Manchester graduate, who spoke about his upbringing, experiences as a student in the 1960s and '70s and how those experiences were shaped by the establishment of AAFRO House on campus. The full title of the program is Rightful Objectives: 50 Years of Black Student Organizing at Manchester. Special thanks to Anne Gregory for providing the audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

Last week, Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry gave his State of the City address at the Grand Wayne Center. Special thanks to WBOI’s Zach Bernard for providing the audio for this program as part of his reporting on this year’s address. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.

Earlier this week, Governor Eric Holcomb gave his State of the State address. Due to security concerns across the country tied to the presidential inauguration, Holcomb’s speech was pre-taped away from the Statehouse. We aired his address live on January 19. Special thanks to Indiana Public Broadcasting for providing the audio for this program. Our music is by Mark Waldick, Noah Campodonico, and Kurt Roembke. Our web producer is Loyal Vandenburg. Our production assistants are Monica Blankenship, Steve Mullaney, and Sydney Wagner.