Podcast Episodes

  2. Bookstore Basketball

    • (22 minutes listen)

    In this episode of Notre Dame Stories, host Jenna Liberto talks with student co-president Mia Keener ’26, Bookstore veteran Tim Frank ’93, and members of the Congregation of Holy Cross about what makes Bookstore Basketball more than just a game.

  3. Inside Artemis II mission control

    • (15 minutes listen)

    In this podcast episode, Notre Dame alum Kelsey Young, NASA’s first science officer, shares how Artemis II astronauts are shaping lunar science and exploration.

  4. What happened to the American family?

    • (14 minutes listen)

    In this episode of Notre Dame Stories, Melissa Kearney, the Gilbert F. Schaefer Professor of Economics and director of the Strengthening Families Research Initiative, explores the decline in marriage, the rise of single-parent households, and the falling fertility rates in the United States.

  5. Smiling older man with short gray hair wearing a gray blazer and light blue shirt, set against a deep blue background overlaid with colorful financial candlestick chart graphics in teal, pink, and red.

    How do you measure success?

    • (13 minutes listen)

    In this episode of Notre Dame Stories, a Mendoza College of Business professor joins Jenna Liberto to talk about setting goals with purpose, finding work that aligns with your values, and building enough stillness into life to hear what matters most.

  6. A woman with short dark hair smiles slightly while looking off-camera. She wears a brown, fleece-lined winter jacket. In the background, snow rests on dried plants in front of a tan brick wall.

    Cold plunges and unicorns

    • (17 minutes listen)

    In this episode of Notre Dame Stories, anthropologist Cara Ocobock uses hands-on lessons, extreme cold research, and insights from our evolutionary past to explain how the human body adapts, survives, and thrives in some of the harshest environments on Earth.

  7. A smiling woman with glasses and brown hair pulled back stands in front of a dark blue background with abstract white digital lines and binary code.

    A human-centered framework for AI ethics

    • (13 minutes listen)

    In this episode, Meghan Sullivan explains the DELTA framework, a human-centered approach to AI ethics—and why the choices we make today will define how this powerful technology shapes our future.

  8. A scientist with gray hair and glasses, wearing a blue lab coat with a 'Myung Laboratory' patch, stands with his arms crossed in a brightly lit blue laboratory setting.

    New tech to help stop the spread of bird flu

    • (14 minutes listen)

    In this podcast episode of Notre Dame Stories, discover how researchers are helping farmers detect disease before it spreads using an innovative electronic nose.

  9. A serious man in a dark blue shirt and glasses stands with his arms crossed in front of a colorful hurricane projection.

    Improving hurricane forecasts

    • (13 minutes listen)

    How do you improve hurricane forecasts? By studying one of the most powerful and destructive forces on Earth up close—where the ocean meets the atmosphere.