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On this episode, we talk about the benefits of nature. Our guest is Marc Berman, founder and director of the Environmental Neuroscience Laboratory at the University of Chicago.

On this episode, we talk with artist and author Teresa Jordan and musician, composer, and writer Hal Cannon.

As a professor of peacebuilding, a conflict mediator, and a follower of Jesus, Chad Ford offers perspectives on how to avoid or reconcile contention when life's inevitable disagreements arise.

Emma Martins and Austin Knuppe recently attended the Diplomacy of the Heart Conference in Uzbekistan, an international gathering dedicated to intercultural understanding and peacebuilding.

On this episode, we remember writer Brad Watson, who we interviewed in July 2016 about his novel "Miss Jane." Brad Watson died in 2020.

Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, 12 have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee.

In Simon Tolkien's new historical novel, a young man comes of age and crosses continents in search of an identity at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War. We also talk about his grandfather, J.R.R. Tolkien.

After years of exploration and research in Utah's remote Nine Mile Canyon, Verlicia Perez wrote a guidebook titled "Echoes of the Ancestors," blending practical guidance with thoughtful historical interpretation.

The Utah Foundation released a report on social capital in Utah in 2021 and they are preparing an update. We talk about social trust and cohesion, civic engagement, community, family health, and more.

In 1917, in Fatima, Portugal, three shepherd children claimed that the Virgin Mary appeared before them and spoke the words, “Do not be afraid.”

On this episode, we talk about dementia ahead of the second annual health fair focused on Alzheimer's disease and dementia awareness and prevention on June 21.

Homeowners insurance is getting more expensive, AND harder to keep. In our region, one of the most important causes is climate change-fueled wildfires. Some state leaders are trying to pass reforms.

On this episode we talk with Bonnie Moore about her new novel "Buried Bones: A Maggie Anderson Mystery."

We talk with Freeman Ng, author of "Bridge Across The Sky," a young adult novel in verse based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900s.

For decades at the end of the 1800s, the American West was a crucible of change, with the highest murder rate per capita in American history. The reasons behind this boil down to one word: Texas.

Laura Tohe is a poet, writer, librettist, scholar of Indigenous American literature, and former Navajo Nation Poet Laureate.

The Trump administration is proposing a nearly 25% cut to NASA's budget as well as deep cuts to space technology funding. We talk about it with Casey Dreier and Christopher Cokinos.

We talk with critically acclaimed MacArthur genius, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Tony Award–nominated playwright and author Sarah Ruhl about her new book.

A new art exhibit presents two perspectives of Glen Canyon: 1950s photos captured before the the dam and contemporary footage chronicling the canyon's reemergence as water levels recede.

On Thursday, we broadcast from Zion Canyon Mesa in Springdale. We talked to Springdale Mayor Barbara Bruno and Zion Canyon Mesa Executive Director Logan Hebner.

Tim Clare is an author, poet and podcast presenter, and he joins us today to talk about his new book, "Across the Board: How Games Make Us Human."

Jack Lohmann is a writer from Richmond, Virginia. "White Light" is his first book, and he joins us to discuss life and phosphorus.

On this episode we're joined by Cache County Executive David Zook and Michael Jeanfreau, senior economist with the Utah Department of Workforce Services.

It's time again for us to compile another UPR community booklist. So we want to know what you're reading. What's on your nightstand or device right now?

On this year's Earth Day episode we'll take stock of conservation on Utah's public lands and ask: What has been accomplished? How was success achieved? What happens next?

Today we'll look at how several Utah organizations have been affected by recent federal funding cuts, including Utah Humanities, Cannon Heritage Consultants, and Utahns Against Hunger.

While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president — and though history has downplayed her role — just over a century ago a woman became the nation's first acting president.

The Friends of the Logan Library are presenting a screening of the film "Banned Together: The Fight Against Censorship," along with a panel discussion. We talk with panel members and discuss book bans.

UPR Co-Station Manager Kerry Bringhurst joins us to talk about the celebrated national storytelling project's upcoming visit to southern Utah beginning April 24th.

Part travelogue, part memoir, part reporting, Robin Hemley's book "Borderline Citizen" redefines notions of nationhood by exploring the arbitrariness of boundaries and what it means to belong.

We preview the USU Sorenson Center's upcoming Caregiver Burnout Workshop, as well as other services the center provides.

On this episode, we revisit our conversation with Robin Patten about her book "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places."

We're joined by Michael de Yoanna, managing editor of the Mountain West News Bureau.

Kirk Siegler is a national correspondent for NPR News. As a roving reporter, he covers the western U.S. with an emphasis on rural issues, water and the effects of climate change on smaller communities.

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. We revisit our conversatin from March.

We talk with Dan Murphy, whose new collection of poems "Estate Sale" is being published by University of Utah Press. He is winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.

Today we'll mark a decade of USU's Farm in Literature and Culture course. Our guests include USU lecturers, professors, and a USU student who says the class has had a continuing influence on her life.

In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains. We revisit our conversation.

Today we're doing another nonprofit spotlight. There are many needs in our communities and many step up to help.

Today we talk with Felipe Torres Medina, a comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

AJ Romriell grew up Mormon and gay, and he joins us today to talk about his new book "Wolf Act." Through linked personal essays, "Wolf Act" charts a young man's transformation.

Lisa Gilman and Divine Irakoze met when Gilman stayed with Irakoze's family in a Malawian refugee camp while working on a global ethnographic research project on arts initiatives by refugees.