Well Said

It's almost football time at Carolina. With the opening kickoff only a few days away, we're talking with Voice of the Tar Heels Jones Angell about his broadcast career and the upcoming football season, which begins Saturday evening against the University of Georgia.

With the new school year underway, we're talking with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Student Body President Bradley Opere. Born and raised in Kenya, Opere was first thrown into a leadership role as a high schooler in an effort to keep peace at his boarding school where students were staging strikes, and then honed his skills at the prestigious African Leadership Academy in South Africa. Now, a senior business administration student at the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, Opere takes on the new role of student body president.

Of all the Tar Heels heading back to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for the new school year, nearly 20 percent of them are first-generation college students. In this episode, we talk with Vice Provost for Enrollment and Undergraduate Stephen Farmer about first-generation college students, their impact at Carolina and a new project designed to welcome them to campus.

The Olympic games may have been founded to serve as a political-free zone to foster peace, but it hasn't always worked that way. As the world turns its attention to for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro we're talking about the intersection of politics and the Olympics with UNC College of Arts and Sciences' history lecturer Matthew Andrews.

Hurricane season has been relatively quiet on the East Coast so far this year. But the season is far from over and coastal areas need to be prepared to handle the dangerous storm and potentially deadly storm surges. In this week's episode, Rick Luettich, director of the UNC Institute of Marine Sciences, discusses hurricanes and the damaging storm surges that wreak havoc in areas before and after the storms.

With summer in full swing and the sports world gearing up for the Olympics in Brazil, we're talking the Zika virus with Blossom Damania, Boshamer Distinguished Professor of microbiology and immunology. The incoming vice dean of research at the UNC School of Medicine, Damania discusses Carolina's role in Zika research.

This week, John Van Seters Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Mitch Prinstein and doctoral student Jackie Nesi discuss social media and its influence on adolescents.

Barry M. Popkin, W. R. Kenan, Jr. Distinguished Professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, discusses the increase of obesity in the United States and how sugar taxes may be crucial in the fight against the health concern.

We're talking earthquakes with UNC-Chapel Hill postdoctoral research associate Berk Biryol of the Geology Department. Biryol has been studying the possible causes of earthquakes in the Southeastern United States — an area located in the middle of the plate that shouldn't be prone to quakes.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Commencement is right around the corner, and today we are talking with graduating senior and student body president Houston Summers. The Greensboro, North Carolina native played minor league baseball for six years before attending Carolina.

In this week's episode, sociology professor Charles Kurzman discusses terrorism and his research on the small number of Muslim-Americans who join militant groups.

In this week's episode, we're talking Earth Day and sustainable food sources with Carolina alumna and current Chancellor's Fellow Emily Auerbach. The director of the University's Edible Campus Initiative, Auerbach has been helping transform the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill into an edible landscape.

In this episode, Sarah Treul, assistant professor of political science in the College of Arts and Sciences, discusses the 2016 congressional and presidential elections.

Lou Perez, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's history department in the College of Arts and Sciences, discusses Cuban history and what restoring diplomatic relations means for the two countries.

In the debut episode of Well Said, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Athletic Director Bubba Cunningham discusses his career, the NCAA tournament and changes in college athletics.