With a Side of Knowledge
With a Side of Knowledge is a podcast that allows you to get to know a fascinating scholar or professional through an informal conversation about their work. Each episode is about 30 minutes long and recorded over brunch at the Morris Inn.
On Podcast Brunch Club and the Appeal of Audio—Adela Mizrachi, Podcast Brunch Club
Like us, Adela Mizrachi works in communications at a university, but that’s not the reason we asked her to come on the show. At least not the main one. See, Adela is also the...
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On Cryptocurrency, Facebook’s Libra, and Data Security—Mike Chapple, Notre Dame
Mike Chapple is academic director of Notre Dame’s Master of Science in Business Analytics program and an associate teaching professor of IT, analytics, and operations at the...
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On Incredible Women and a Story Too Good to Pass Up—Ann Little, Colorado State University
Ann Little is a professor of history at Colorado State University who specializes in the history of women, gender, and sexuality, with a focus on early North America. She is the...
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On Exile, Literature, and Feeling Small Before the Page—Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, Author
For our season 3 premiere, we talked with author Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, an associate professor of English at Notre Dame and the winner of the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for...
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On Football Rankings and Measuring Efficiency
Brian Fremeau is the creator of the eponymously named Fremeau Efficiency Index, or FEI, a college football rating system based on opponent-adjusted possession efficiency. (Don’t...
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On Math, Origami, and How No Discipline is an Island
Clare Kim is a doctoral candidate in the Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. She spent the 2018–19 academic year in residence at the...
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On Lowering Barriers and Double Rainbows
Ten years ago, the world was introduced to Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform that, in the company’s own words, “helps artists, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and other...
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On Enron, Business, and Cover Stories
A contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Bethany McLean was previously a reporter at Fortune, where, in 2000, she received a tip suggesting she look into energy-trading giant...
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A Bold Proposal for the U.S.-Mexico Border
For this special bonus episode, host Ted Fox changed things up a bit. Rather than interviewing someone on the Notre Dame campus, he made the two-hour drive to Purdue University,...
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On Energy and Not Throwing Spaghetti Against the Wall
Rachel Kyte is chief executive officer of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL), special representative of the UN secretary-general for Sustainable Energy for All, and co-chair of...
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On Publishing and the Love of Books
This is the second of two episodes we recorded while in Brooklyn for On Air Fest 2019. And here, we ventured beyond the festival to meet up with literary agent Jessica Sinsheimer,...
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On Science Podcasting and What Didn’t Happen to the Dinosaurs
With apologies to Jack Kerouac, this is the first of two “on the road” episodes we recorded in Brooklyn, New York, while attending On Air Fest 2019. It features two of our...
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