Episodes

Above: Columbia Theater, Gallia Street near the Esplanade, January 1937 flood (Carl Ackerman Collection, Southern Ohio Museum). “One in a Million,” on the marquee, was a film about an Olympic figure skater. In this episode, Flood Proof?, we meet Dr. Kurt Shoemaker, Professor of Geology at Shawnee State University. Dr. Shoemaker has conducted research on volcanic systems in the northwestern United States and has studied the evolution of the Ohio River system during the Ice Age. More recently, hi...

In this episode, Student Journalism: Developing Skills for a Lifetime, we meet Dr. Christy Zempter, Assistant Professor of Communication and faculty advisor for Shawnee State University’s student news site The Chronicle, and Hannah Kline, a History major at SSU who is also pursuing a Journalism minor. Hannah is currently enrolled in an Advanced News Writing and Reporting class at SSU, after completing the introductory course in the fall. Hannah has published about a dozen stories so far on The ...

In this episode, The First Year of Science with the James Webb Space Telescope, we meet Dr. Tim Hamilton, Professor of Physics and Director of the Clark Planetarium at Shawnee State University. From our campus in Portsmouth, Ohio, Tim works with both the Hubble and the James Webb space telescopes to study what are called “active galaxies”, like quasars. These are galaxies whose central black holes are actively sucking in gas, heating it up, and making it glow so brightly it can outshine the whol...

In this episode, Networks of Flight, Escape, and Freedom: Exploring the History of the Underground Railroad in the Ohio-Kentucky-West Virginia Tristate Region, we meet Dr. Andrew Feight, Professor of American History and Director of the Center for Public History at Shawnee State University. Currently, Dr. Feight is also serving as the Director of Research and Outreach for the Appalachian Freedom Initiative, an Appalachian Regional Commission POWER Grant project. The project seeks to document an...