Blue and Goldcast

Santa's guest is student-athlete Coltyn Liu, who overcame adversity to become a star volleyball player for UBC.

UBC President Santa Ono and history professor Henry Yu discuss Asian History Month which this year is taking place against a background of anti-Asian racism, and racism against other ABIPOC groups and individuals,

UBC Chancellor Steven Point discusses his distinguished career and amazing life with host Santa Ono.

Santa talks to Margaret Moss, the Interim Associate Vice-President, Equity & Inclusion, about her current role and her work with UBC's First Nations House of Learning.

Dr. Julio Montaner shares highlights of his distinguished career in HIV/AIDS research with Santa.

Ars Scientia is an ongoing UBC research excellence cluster which pairs scientists and artists, challenging them to create work that stepped outside of their respective disciplines and bridge the academic gap between arts and science. Today, Santa speaks to Daniel Korchinski and Josephine Lee. Daniel, a physicist, and Josephine, an artist were paired together to create collaborative research that called on both their areas of expertise.

In this episode of the Blue & Goldcast, Santa talks to Nancy Hermiston, chair of UBC's Voice and Opera Division, director of UBC's Opera Ensemble and University Marshall; who Santa describes as "the face of UBC."

In the first episode of the Blue and Goldcast for 2022, Santa Ono talks with two scholars working to improve scholarly integrity at UBC. Dr. Ross Hickey is an associate professor in UBC's Department of Economics. Jacqui Brinkman is the Director of Graduate Student Professional Development at the UBC Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. Both Ross and Jacqui are involved with UBC's Scholarly Integrity Initiative, which aims to help UBC's researchers and scholars do responsible work.

Santa talks to UBC Journalism professor Peter Klein, the executive director of the Global Reporting Centre, about the future of journalism.

UBC Professor Tina Loo talks to Santa about her research into power, colonialism, and environmental history.

In the 30th episode of the Blue and Goldcast, Santa chats with UBC Olympic medalists Hillary Janssens and Evan Dunfee about their experiences at the Summer Games.

Santa Ono chats with UBC Okanagan student Mikey Friedland, who has just returned from an epic bicycle ride to the Arctic Ocean to raise funds and awareness of mental health issues.

Episode 28: Chief Liliane Squinas And Dr. Madjid Mohseni by UBC Office of the President

In this episode of the Blue & Goldcast, Santa talks to the directors of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics about why ethics matter in business more than ever.

In a wide-ranging interview, Santa and his guest, Dr. Handel Wright, discusses anti-racism, Black Studies, and inclusion at UBC.

Santa Ono discusses the legacy of colonialism and residential schools with UBC History Professor Tina Loo.

In this episode of the Blue & Goldcast, Santa talks to Dr. Glenn Regehr is a researcher in health professions education in the Faculty of Medicine.

In this episode of the Blue and Goldcast, Santa talks to Dr. Daniel Vigo, assistant professor at UBC's Institute of Mental Health. He's working on an app called Minder, designed to help students get the mental health support they may need.

In a special Father's Day episode of the Blue & Goldcast, Santa talks to UBC Faculty of Medicine Professor David Kuhl about his research into fatherhood and masculinity. Dr. Kuhl holds the Mohammad H. Mohseni Foundation Chair in Men's Health, Integrity and Wellbeing at Vancouver Coastal Health with support from the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation.

In this episode of the Blue and Goldcast, Santa talks to Karen Cheung and Lukas Chrostowski about their new platform technology and biosensor that can be used as a COVID-19 diagnostic tool.