Agents of Change – WHUS Radio

A Conversation with UConn President Thomas Katsouleas

February 15, 2021

After a year-long hiatus, we return with an insightful conversation on research and leadership, two fundamental pillars of education at the University of Connecticut. President Katsouleas reminisces his cu...

Episode 12: Saurabh Kumar, Fetal Onset Hydrocephalus

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Saurabh is a senior at UConn and recipient of the University Scholar laureate, among other recognitions. In this concluding episode, we dive deeper into the University Scholar program and Saurabh’s growth as a...

Episode 11: Avadhut Khade and Gaganjot Bedi, Autism Intervention Technology

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Avadhut and Gaganjot both work in a kinesiology lab focusing on using an application and other techniques to understand various learning disabilities and developing ways to tackle this issue in kids. They both...

Episode 10: Nicole Rivera and Imane Forbes, Research Abroad

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Nicole and Imane are seniors at UConn that participated in funded research abroad over the summer. They both had the amazing chance to go to Australia to conduct research under a fellowship offered by UConn’s ...

Episode 9: Hind Fares and Jonathan Sosa, RESULTS

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Hind and Jonathan are currently involved in RESULTS, a club on campus that focuses on ending poverty through political action. Hind is co-president and has been involved in the national chapter’s annual confer...

Episode 8: Wanjiku Gatheru, Food Insecurity and UCAFE

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Wanjiku (Wawa) is a prominent activist on campus who is also a Truman Scholar, Udall Scholar, and UConn’s first Rhodes scholar. She is the co-founder of UCAFE, UConn Access to Food Effort, an IDEA grant that i...

Episode 7: Jacob Lenes, STEMTalk Magazine

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Jacob is currently a journalist and serves on the Executive Board for STEMTalk magazine. It is the only student-run STEM-based magazine on UConn campus. He is a computer science major and has published numerou...

Episode 6: Akash Binoj, LINKS

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Akash is involved in LINKS (Laboratory of Intelligent Networks and Knowledge-perception Systems), an engineering lab on UConn campus with military applications. He directly works in software development for pa...

Episode 5: Ajitha Chivukula, CPR Education

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Ajitha launched a low-cost CPR training program at Danbury Hospital over the summer. CPR was taught to the families of patients identified as high risk (low cardiac output, previous MIs, ST-elevation). An inst...

Episode 4: Serena Verma, Nutritional Intervention

Mukund Desibhatla

December 18, 2019

Agents of Change, Podcasts, Talk

Serena leads a nutritional intervention that investigates the effect of the nutrient choline on blood health markers (triglycerides, HDL/LDL cholesterol, glucose, inflammatory markers). Egg intervention in hea...