Did you make a New Year’s Resolution to try something new? Try subscribing to one of the many podcasts produced at Penn. Listen while you take a walk at lunchtime or on your commute. Here are a few to check out: 

• “Tradeoffs” Hosted by Dan Gorenstein, LDI adjunct senior fellow, mediamaker-in-residence at the Annenberg School, and a former senior reporter on the “Marketplace” radio show, this podcast analyzes topical health-care issues. Episodes air every other Wednesday. The project’s tagline is “Exploring our confusing, costly, and often counterintuitive health-care system.” The podcast is also being supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the California Health Care Foundation. https://tradeoffs.org/ 

• “Energy Policy Now” Produced by the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy and hosted by energy journalist Andy Stone, who speaks with leaders from industry, government and academia as they shed light on today’s pressing energy policy debates. https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/energy-policy-now
• Wharton Business Radio: A number of shows and podcasts are produced at Wharton. Visit https://businessradio.wharton.upenn.edu/shows/ for a full list. Here’s a sampling: 

1. “Wharton Business Daily” features the latest business topics and insights from the Wharton School, bringing together top leaders, innovators and renowned Wharton faculty to discuss topics that matter to consumers and the business world.
2. “Wharton Moneyball” covers how decision makers in sports can avoid the common mistakes and embrace the data.
3. “Women@Work” leads listeners to discover innovative practices for personal and system change to help more women join, stay, succeed and lead in the workplace.
4. “Purpose Built” is a special series hosted by Wharton alumnus and Allbirds Co-Founder and Co-CEO Joey Zwillinger. In each one-hour episode, he talks with a high-profile entrepreneur, exploring the story behind his/her journey from startup to success, showing how a socially conscious approach benefited their bottom line.
5. “Leadership in Action” covers what it takes to influence others and achieve high results as an effective leader.
6. “Behind the Markets” discusses hows and whys behind market performance and what’s ahead.
7. “Dot Complicated” is a fun, entertaining, educational and approachable way to discuss all of the latest trends and topics in technology, and how they’re affecting our modern lives.

• “OMNIA” Produced by the School of Arts and Sciences, this series provides insights and perspectives from the home of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences at Penn. https://soundcloud.com/omniapenn

• “The Global Cable” Produced by Perry World House, this podcast discusses “the world’s biggest issues with the people who work on them.” https://tinyurl.com/globalcablepodcast

• “Work-Life with Adam Grant” Adam Grant is an organizational psychologist and The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at Wharton and professor of psychology at Penn. This TED original podcast takes you inside some truly unusual places, where they’ve figured out how to make work not suck. One of the most downloaded shows of 2018. https://www.adamgrant.net/worklife

• “The Media at Risk Podcast” Produced by the Center for Media at Risk at the Annenberg School, this podcast gives voice to media practitioners and the dilemmas they face when political threat undermines their activity. https://www.ascmediarisk.org/ideas/podcasts/
• “Office Hours” Produced by the Office of University Communications, this podcast series explores the minds of the Penn’s academic talents in a more unbuttoned and freewheeling setting outside of the lecture hall. https://penntoday.upenn.edu/subtopic/office-hours?page=0
• The Daily Pennsylvanian: The DP produces several podcasts; visit https://www.thedp.com/section/podcasts

• Amplify Nursing is created and hosted by Penn Nursing’s Marion Leary, director of innovation, and Angelarosa DiDonato, associate program administrator. It features nurses who are leading the way in nursing science, policy and innovation. Guests defy stereotypes, define practice and disrupt convention. The podcast highlights the breadth and depth of nursing influence on society by amplifying nurses who are pushing boundaries and breaking down barriers to build a new paradigm. Available every other Wednesday. See https://www.nursing.upenn.edu/research/innovation/amplify-nursing-podcast/

• There is also a podcast associated with Momentum 2020: The Power of Penn Women, which will be a three-day conference in October celebrating the power of Penn women. The podcast by the same name features discussions with various Penn women; a new one has been added weekly since last fall and there are now nearly two dozen episodes, with more to be included. See https://pennmomentum.libsyn.com/

• Case in Point is produced by the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, this podcast provides smart, informative conversations about the law, society, and culture. By bringing together top scholars with experts on politics, business, health, education, and science, Case in Point gives an in-depth look at how the law touches every part of our lives; https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/case-in-point/id969189587

• No Stupid Questions. Stephen Dubner (co-author of the Freakonomics book series) and Angela Duckworth (Rosa Lee and Egbert Chang Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientific Advisor of Penn’s Positive Psychology Center) really like to ask people questions, and came to believe there’s no such thing as a stupid one. So they made a podcast where they can ask each other as many “stupid questions” as they want. See https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/no-stupid-questions/id1510056899

• The Penn Institute for Urban Research (Penn IUR) and the Volcker Alliance launched a new podcast–Special Briefing–that examines fiscal actions states and municipalities are taking in response to COVID-19, unprecedented federal stimulus aid, inflation, and rising interest rates. Hosted by William Glasgall, senior director, public finance at the Volcker Alliance and veteran financial journalist, and Susan Wachter, Penn IUR co-director, the podcast brings together governors, mayors, members of Congress, academics, Wall Street’s most successful investors, and nationally recognized public finance experts to share their experiences and strategies for today and the future. See https://penniur.upenn.edu/press-room/announcements/special-briefing-podcast-launched

Updated October 10, 2022