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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 collection of poems "Estate Sale" was published by University of Utah Press. He won 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.

We revisit our conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

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.

USU History Professor Tammy Proctor joins us today to talk about her new book "Saving Europe," which looks at American aid and intervention in Europe between 1914 and 1924.

We recently revisited our conversation with Michael Pollan from May of 2013. Michael Pollan is author of several bestselling books such as "The Omnivore’s Dilemma."

Today we talk with Cassidy Randall. Her new book "Thirty Below" tells the story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970.

For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror. Now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface.

The Utah Legislature is considering overhauling Utah's public records law. Critics say the proposed changes would make it harder for citizens to find out what state government is doing.

We spoke with Kathy Christiansen about her new book "Billy Barnes and the Cyber Threat," about two boys who embark on a dangerous quest to find Billy's grandpa.

We revisit our conversation with Kate Moore, author of the New York Times bestseller 'The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women'.