Podcasting and Audio Storytelling

Business Beyond Usual is a new podcast from MBA students at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In each episode, host Ramu Annamalai and his fellow Michigan Ross classmates tackle a burning issue. Is business school a waste of money? Do school rankings actually mean anything? If you want to make a difference in the world, is working for a consulting firm selling out?

Lessons and Stories for Rising Entrepreneurs: Produced in partnership with University of Michigan Center for Entrepreneurship.

A podcast about economic thought from the mid-20th Century, and why it matters for us today. Hosted by Robert Manduca (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan) and Nic Johnson (PhD Candidate in the History Department, University of Chicago).

Think Like an Economist and you’ll see the world more clearly, empowering you to make better decisions at work, at home, and in your community. Leading economists Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers will take you on a joyous romp through their field as they introduce you to the big ideas in economics, and show how you can apply them to live in your own life. Their signature approach reveals that every decision is an economic decision and this podcast uncovers the economic forces that shape the world around you. Betsey and Justin believe that economics is a superpower, and they want to teach you to fly.

optiMize is a student-led social innovation community at the University of Michigan that provides support, mentorship, and funding for students to turn ideas into impact. In the Why Not Me? podcast, optiMize co-founder and director Jeff Sorensen speaks with entrepreneurs, activists, researchers, and leaders from all walks of life about how they're using their life to make a positive impact in the world.

A new podcast about the hustle to one day hopefully enjoy a weekend. Every other week, Mawa Mustafa gathers a group of her fellow students in Part-Time MBA Programs at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business to have a discussion about a burning issue in their lives.

The Daily Weekly is the news podcast for The Michigan Daily: the University of Michigan's independent student newspaper. We cover stories relevant to the university, students, and surrounding communities to keep our listeners up-to-date on interesting stories and investigations.

The aMplify Podcast is here to discuss the experience of being a student at the University of Michigan, with topics ranging from housing to mental health, student orgs, and more. Created and hosted by June Rayburn and Elyas Perry, both transfer students at UM, and supported by optiMize. We hope this project can help illuminate certain topics that many of us feel unsure about as we come into the UM community.

The University of Michigan Detroit Center (UMDC) is proud to present Distinctly Detroit, a podcast exploring the crossover of U of M community members living and working in Detroit. Join our host, UMDC Director, Feodies Shipp III, as he interviews scholars, innovators, and leaders to learn about their meaningful advances in Detroit’s civic, community, commercial, and cultural arenas.

Wolverines talking about life at the University of Michigan. Join us as we interview current students about topics ranging from finding community to tips for academic success at Michigan. For more information and ways to engage with the Michigan community, check out your Enrollment Connect portal. Go Blue!

"Listen In, Michigan" addresses all alumni regardless of their school or association affiliation. The show aims to speak to the entire alumni community, and to connect listeners across disciplines.

Michigan Minds brings to life the breadth and depth of faculty expertise at the University of Michigan. This series features quick yet informative analysis that provides unique perspectives on today’s top issues.

Have you ever heard a news story featuring an interesting person you’d like to know more about? How did they get to where they are? What are their secrets to success? “Michigan News: Beyond the Headlines” is a new podcast that does just that, taking you beyond the headlines to meet University of Michigan faculty in the news. Mike Wood is the host of "Michigan News: Beyond the Headlines." He has worked in TV and radio for over 25 years, and is now a video producer at the University of Michigan and manager of the Michigan News Studio.

Two University of Michigan Wolverines who want to dig a little bit deeper. We're curious about more than what's on someone's Instagram feed, LinkedIn profile, or Facebook wall. We want to hear and share the stories of our fellow Wolverines so we can all become a little bit closer.

Meet Anurima, Dierra, Monica, Inés, and Rashika as they highlight people of color on the University of Michigan's campus and in today's popular culture. Listen in on special guest speakers as they chat, snap, and clap-back to relevant issues. Get vulnerable, get comfortable, and get ready to Pass the MiC.

The everything-RC podcast. Tune in for updates from our students, faculty and staff on the awesome and often offbeat things happening in East Quad and beyond. From Shakespeare in the Arb to alumni publishing projects to student social justice activities, the U-M Residential College and its people are different, never diffident.

South U Stories is a podcast hosted by Rishi Narayan that's centered around telling some of the most interesting stories from the University of Michigan community. While these stories aren't long, they will definitely stick with you.

Resiliency is best demonstrated in times of challenges. Join CEW+ Director Tiffany Marra as she talks to students, staff, faculty, and community members connected to the University of Michigan’s Center for the Education of Women+ (CEW+) in this new podcast.

One of the most powerful things about social media is the platform for expression it provides. Individuals can share their stories and become advocates and inspirations for others. Students at U-M have harnessed this potential and used their personal media to do just this. Listen and hear how each of these students has made a unique impact through social media.

Voices of Victors is a podcast that asks thought-provoking questions, cultivates culturally relevant dialogue, and reveals truths about our shared human experience through discussions with diverse members of the University of Michigan community, ranging from students and staff to faculty and alumni.

Stories about the data, the people who use, seek, or create data, and why people should care about data. From ICPSR, the world's largest social science data archive. Proudly recorded at the University of Michigan.

How to Science is a show about the human side of scientists and the beauty of research, produced by the University of Michigan's College of LSA. We insist that science is beautiful, accessible, personal, and human. And any listener can science, too.

The MiXR Studios Podcast exists to educate the University of Michigan community about what is happening in XR (Extended Reality) on campus. It will share best practices and exciting learnings while helping to shape the future of teaching and learning in higher education and beyond.

Chemistry! Queerness! The Trials and Tribulations of Graduate School! MFQC spills the tea on it all. Join Bec and Geraldo each week as they interview LGBTQ+ chemists on their research interests and experiences with identity, challenges, and achievements in the chemistry field. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn all the ins and outs of queer culture.

Ask questions. Research. Test. Analyze. Iterate. Make lives better. Engineering begins & ends with people. Settle in with Michigan Engineering monthly for stories about breakthrough research & the people making it happen. RE: Engineering Radio is a podcast reinventing how we talk about research. Produced by the University of Michigan College of Engineering,

The Received Wisdom is a podcast about how to realize the potential of science and technology by challenging the received wisdom. Join Shobita Parthasarathy and Jack Stilgoe as they talk to thinkers and doers from around the world about developing and governing science and technology to make the world a better place.

Relatively Prime is a mathematics podcast all about the stories behind the Queen of the Sciences that Samuel Hansen dreamt up in an extreme bout of egotism and delusions of grandeur where they spent too long listening to Radiolab, This American Life, and Snap Judgment and began to think, “Hey, I could do that.”

Peeking behind what scaffolds writing classrooms at the University of Michigan.

Exploring the future of education at the University of Michigan through ten-minute episodes, the Michigan Time Podcast covers topics on the future of learning, technology, and accessibility. It's designed to be listened to when you're walking or biking to class, commuting to meetings, or riding the Blue Bus across campus. Stay connected, engaged, and curious as you go about your day.

Guided meditations and information about Mindfulness from University of Michigan faculty and affiliates. Take a study break, hear about mindfulness research at UM and enjoy the offerings on mindfulness from members of the University of Michigan community.

Student DJs at WCBN created It’s Hot in Here in 2008 in order to combine environmental journalism with positive, infectious pop and counter culture energy. Placing the wealth of knowledge at the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability (formerly known as the School of Natural Resources and Environment) in conversation with Ann Arbor and the world, It’s Hot in Here ushered in a new era in envi­ron­men­tally-themed college talk radio with a focus on soul and R&B. Over one-hundred live shows later, a seed that started off as a joke at a party has grown — and is still growing — into a family of friends, colleagues, experts, and artisans.

Join University of Michigan Planet Blue Student Leaders as they discuss local and global environmental issues.

Voices of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum Ecosystem

A podcast about U.S.-China relations from Michigan News.

Dearborn Girl is a podcast created for Arab and/or Muslim women in Dearborn to share their stories and inspire courageous conversation in the community. Created by Rima Fadlallah and Yasmeen Kadouh.

The “Frankely Judaic” podcast explores some of the newest research being conducted at the University of Michigan in Judaic Studies. Each episode of "Frankely Judaic" presents the research of faculty, fellows, or students in interesting and creative segments, showing how humanities research is relevant to listeners' lives today.

Created by the Nam Center, this is a series of podcasts to enhance the public impact of Korean Studies scholarship and contribute to public diplomacy by making in-depth examinations of Korean society accessible to English-speakers.

Michigan Talks Japan is a new podcast from the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. In it, Professor Allison Alexy talks with leading scholars doing research on Japan about their work, their backgrounds, and their recommendations in the field. Crossing academic disciplines and time periods, the podcast highlights new and exciting scholarship in Japanese Studies.

This series aims to build transdisciplinary spaces in which to rethink educational practices in order to redress pervasive ideological and methodological biases in Japanese Studies. In this space scholars will discuss their personal background, intellectual formation, experiences in the field, and evolving perspective on Japanese Studies.

Each episode, we will bring you stories that explore the latest research on technology and medical science, new business models, initiatives on social issues, and of course – arts, culture, and sports.

The 3Ps of Cancer podcast highlights prevention, preparedness and progress in cancer treatments and research. Each episode tackles one of these areas of focus with topics presented by University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center physicians, staff or patients. You can continue to explore the 3Ps of Cancer at www.rogelcancercenter.org.

With almost 2 million new cancer diagnosis a year and over 600,000 deaths, knowing and understanding your cancer risk is important. Each episode will feature either a University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center expert, researcher, patient or survivor. Whether it’s prevention, treatment options, the latest discoveries or news, we’ll help you get Cancer Wise.

LSA Pre-Health advisors, Julie Nelson, Gerald Murphy, and Maria Raab, introduce CODE MAIZE! The road to medical or health professional school often seems long with many twists and turns--as well as moments of self-discovery and even joy. Episodes cover a variety of themes including how to find pre-health advising services on campus, where to look for health-related opportunities, and what physicians and healthcare professionals find most meaningful about their work, among other topics. We hope this podcast supports you on your pre-health journey!

Complainers' Corner Podcast is the place where telling the truth is not being negative! Dedicated to mental health and mental wellness, mostly centered around the black experience. With topics ranging from toxic forgiveness to bad bodied self-esteem.

Join hosts Dr. Lisa Meeks and MDisability Researchers and Physicians as we take a deeper dive into understanding the lived experiences of doctors with disabilities through critical conversations with the doctors, researchers, administrators, faculty and policy makers that work to ensure medicine remains an equal opportunity profession.

Join us for weekly episodes as we redefine and discover what it means to have a disability, focusing on our hometown community in Dearborn, Michigan. Listen to our guests share their stories about living with a disability - celebrate their success, achievements, and understand their hardships. We hope to offer a platform for people with disabilities to share their stories and get various types of perspectives about disabilities in Dearborn and the larger Arab American culture in the hopes that we can raise awareness about disabilities among Arab Americans.

Each informative podcast episode features host Jerry O’Donnell, voice of Dow Diamond, interviewing local MidMichigan physicians, advanced practice providers and other health care experts. Each episode is approximately five to 12 minutes in length and is designed to provide listeners with a better understanding of common health-related conditions, as well as inform them about specialized programs and services available locally.

The internet has become a top destination for people looking for information about everything from heart healthy recipes to symptoms of a heart attack, and everything in between. We’re taking these questions and tackling them with help from experts at Michigan Medicine.

Michigan Medicine News Break is your destination for news and stories about the future of healthcare. Our daily briefing gives an insider’s perspective on cutting-edge research news, practical health information, and inspiring stories of survival and overcoming incredible odds with the help of the Leaders & Best at Michigan Medicine, one of the nation’s best hospitals and the academic medical center of the University of Michigan.

Surgery. It's more than scalpels and sutures. Join hosts from the Michigan Medicine Department of Surgery as they bring you stories about the latest in surgical clinical care, education and more with faculty, residents and medical students.

Welcome to Minding Memory. In this podcast we discuss topics related to dementia research. This is an all-hands-on-deck moment for dementia research, and we have topics for both those new to the space as well as old pros. We start with some basics, but we also invite researchers on to discuss their interesting work to give you a glimpse at the questions, data, and methods moving the field forward.

The M4 Signout is a storytelling miniseries based on interviews with students at the UM Medical School. Each episode is 8-10 minutes long and centers on a different aspect of the medical school experience.

Population Healthy is a weekly podcast that digs into the important public health topics that impact our everyday lives. Produced by the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the show brings together experts to discuss population health issues from a variety of perspectives, from the microscopic to the macroeconomic, the social to the environmental, and explore the factors that affect the health of all of us, at a population level.

This podcast shares stories from members of the Washtenaw County (MI) community and their experiences with mental illness in order to harness the power of shared experience and reduce mental illness stigma. Although this podcast features students and young adults from the Ann Arbor community, it is relevant to a broader audience! Share your story (or listen to the stories of others) to help end mental illness stigma. Funded by the Eisenberg Family Depression Center, in memory of Naveed Arif Iqball.

The Wrap is a weekly podcast from Michigan Medicine Headlines, the primary news source for Michigan Medicine’s 26,000 employees. The Wrap runs down each week’s biggest stories from around the organization, covering need-to-know information as well as human interest features highlighting both patients and hard-working employees in an easy-to-listen-to conversational format. Got five minutes? Then you’ve got time to catch up on the latest Michigan Medicine happenings.

Hosted by University of Michigan School of Nursing Clinical Professor Michelle Aebersold, Time Out with Michigan Nursing takes deep dive into the latest nursing research news, new practice implementation and important topics related to patient care and safety. Professor Aebersold will be joined each episode by U-M School of Nursing faculty researchers, clinicians and newsmakers to have a unscripted discussion about the subjects that matter most to nurses working on the frontlines of healthcare systems across the country.

Reverb Effect is a history podcast exploring how past voices resonate in the present moment. How do we make sense of those voices? What were they trying to say, and whose job is it to find out? We'll dive deep into the archives, share amazing stories about the past, and talk with people who are making history now. Presented by the University of Michigan Department of History.

A podcast about the United States Supreme Court and the legal culture that surrounds it.

The Break Away podcast offers a fresh way to engage and connect with the greater Michigan leadership community—a chance to “break away” from the new norms of our daily routines. Presented by the Michigan Leadership Collaborative, our podcast offers an anthology that magnifies and reinforces the challenges that leaders face today in developing healthy habits that fuel the mind and body. Each of the episodes will focus on various aspects of leadership from a diverse set of voices and perspectives while fostering both a sound mind and body.

University of Michigan students amplifying stories and ideas since 2020.

The #PoliceFreeCampus Podcast engages organizers, practitioners, and scholars in discussing the challenges and possibilities for colleges and universities without the police. The podcast is hosted by Dr. Charles H.F. Davis III.

"Why Should You Care?" utilizes a humanities lens to look at pressing issues of our time including racism, politics, and public health. The podcast’s hosts Abdul Kizito (anthropology, 2023) and Cole Simon (Residential College, political science, 2022) interview University of Michigan faculty who use their humanities expertise to address current societal concerns. The podcast creators are the 8 members of the Institute for the Humanities’ Public Humanities Internship program for undergraduate juniors and seniors.

While We Were Away is a podcast by formerly incarcerated people, for formerly incarcerated people—and those who are preparing to transition out of incarceration. This podcast follows the stories of community members who have invited us to share in their moments of joy, sorrow, and learning upon coming home.

Women’s Health, Incarcerated. seeks to educate the general public on the true experiences of gendered discrimination within the American incarceration system with a primary focus on health. We aim to inspire individuals to make a difference by recognizing the realities and demanding change.

Freeform conversations with writers and makers hosted by T Hetzel.

The Sweetland Podcast Series: Topics in Writing features interviews with guests at the Sweetland Fellows Seminar about current topics in the teaching of writing. Each of these guests, an expert in the field, is interviewed by T Hetzel, a member of the Sweetland faculty.

Hosts Nupoor Ranade and Wil Flores, 2019-2020 Digital Rhetoric Collaborative fellows, share a candid review of different folks’ experiences on the job market specific to writing, rhetoric, and technical communication. The episodes are full of great advice from a variety of scholars in different positions, so there’s something for everyone here.

The Michigan Publishing podcast explores the knowledge and innovation that drives our leadership in academic publishing and digital initiatives and technologies.

African American culture is built on, part of, akin to, and styled as oratorical rhetoric, and so Sweetland Digital Rhetoric Collaborative Fellows D’Arcee Charington Neal and Kimberly Williams have built this podcast, The Sonic Renaissance as an evolving conversation of black rhetorical space that foregrounds the work of: music, healing, sound, and life in the digital space of audio.