The Point Podcast
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April 26th, 2024: Misunderstood alligators
Friday’s host, Jimena Romero, speaks with Environmental Education Awareness Research Support and Services (EEARSS) founder Frank ‘Alligator” Robb on misconceptions about alligators in Florida. Plus, t
April 25th, 2024: Kittens on the prowl
Thursday’s host, Sophia Bailly, speaks with Katie Houston, a community cat medicine and surgery intern for Operation Catnip, about the importance of Trap-Neuter-Release procedures as kitten season app
April 24th, 2024: Swiftie fever
Wednesday's host, Caitlyn Schiffer, speaks with Stephanie Burt, Professor of English at Harvard University, about how Taylor Swifts lyrical abilities has taken the world by storm and why it is so capt
April 23rd, 2024: Communism in the classroom
Tuesday's host, Serra Sowers, speaks with Melissa Erickson, the Executive Director of the Alliance for Public Schools Foundation and a former educator about a new bill that will mandate classroom ins
April 22nd, 2024: Clarity through the FOG
Monday’s host, Ben Crosbie, speaks with Ram Balasubramanian, executive director of the Florida Organic Growers, about his group’s efforts to promote organic and sustainable agriculture in the Sunshine
April 19th, 2024: The Tuskegee legacy
Friday’s host, Jimena Romero, speaks with President of Tuskegee Airmen Incorporated Central Florida Chapter, Sylvester Terry on the Tuskegee Airmen and the importance of commemorating them in Florida.
April 18th, 2024: A sunshine squeeze
Thursday’s host, Ailee Shanes, speaks with Jude Grosser, a professor of citrus breeding and genetics at the University of Florida, on why the most recent Florida citrus forecast took a hit and what lo
April 17th, 2024: Thriving through internship turmoil
Wednesday's host, Caitlyn Schiffer, spoke with Andy Thomas, a career coach with Andy Thomas Careers Now, about the trials and tribulations of internship and job seasons and how to better set yourself
April 16th, 2024: Rethinking routes
Tuesday's host, Serra Sowers, spoke with Oscar Santiago Perez, the chair of the RTS Advisory Council, about recent budget negotiations between the University of Florida and the city of Gainesville for
April 15th, 2024: A hairy situation for Florida's insects
Monday's host, Ben Crosbie, speaks with Akito Kawahara, director of the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity, about the fuzzy caterpillars that took over Gainesville and about the importanc