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The college admission process has become increasingly competitive over the past few decades — especially so in recent years — and incredibly so when it comes to the country’s most elite colleges and universities. So, it’s easy to understand the pressures they face and the stress they feel as their high school years wind down and they await word on whether they’ve been admitted to the school or schools they’ve set their hearts and minds on. On Tuesday, January 9 at 9:00pm WGCU will debut a TV documentary that explores the high stress world of college admissions, especially for students who have their sights set on the country’s most elite institutions. “Dream School: A Journey to Higher Ed” was produced, directed, written, and hosted by WGCU’s Sandra Viktorova, who listeners will recognize as our All Things Considered Host.

According to 2024 data from the American Medical Association, around 40% of physicians surveyed indicated they were likely to reduce their clinical hours in the next year. One in 5 physicians say they intend to leave the profession entirely within the next two years, with nearly 28% of doctors surveyed reporting dissatisfaction with their current healthcare jobs. Our guest left direct patient care behind in 2022 after practicing as a Gynecologic Oncology surgeon for just four years. Dr. Wilbur then embarked on a project to conduct a series of one-on-one interviews with doctors like herself who had either recently left practice, or were strongly considering doing so, to shine light on this growing trend and what factors were driving it. We talk with her about her new book that came out of those conversations, “The Doctor is No Longer In: Conversations with U.S. physicians.”

According to 2024 data from the American Medical Association, around 40% of physicians surveyed indicated they were likely to reduce their clinical hours in the next year. One in 5 physicians say they intend to leave the profession entirely within the next two years, with nearly 28% of doctors surveyed reporting dissatisfaction with their current healthcare jobs. Our guest left direct patient care behind in 2022 after practicing as a Gynecologic Oncology surgeon for just four years. Dr. Wilbur then embarked on a project to conduct a series of one-on-one interviews with doctors like herself who had either recently left practice, or were strongly considering doing so, to shine light on this growing trend and what factors were driving it. We talk with her about her new book that came out of those conversations, “The Doctor is No Longer In: Conversations with U.S. physicians.”

Jeffrey Brown speaks with Jessi Hempel of Backchannel about Uber's new direction.

"Helping other women direct never hurt me as a director"

Residents along Florida’s Gulf Coast are bracing for a direct hit by Hurricane Hermine.

Coyotes are native-American relatives of wolves and pet dogs. Like our dogs, they are omnivorous – eating both plants and animals, taking advantage of both living creatures and dead ones. Most of their diet consists of small creatures – insects, mice, rats, birds (when they can catch them), lizards, fruit, nuts, and mushrooms. They are mostly creatures of open grasslands – even mowed areas such as golf courses and parks. Humans attract them unintentionally by making garbage available or putting food outside for family pets. Coyotes are largely scavengers and must cover a lot of ground to meet their daily needs – sometimes as much as 5 square miles in a day. In seasonally cold climates – as with other animals – coyotes grow a thicker coat and then molt it when the weather turns warm – often giving coyotes a rather scruffy appearance as they molt. Coyote pairs sometimes hunt together – often 50 feet or so apart – increasing the odds of catching a rabbit or other small animal that is flushed as they move. Most of the time, however, they are rather solitary in their movements.

As another rainy season begins with red tide present along the Southwest Florida coast we’re looking back to research being conducted by FGCU Professor, Dr. Bill Mitsch, about the role land-based nutrients play in red tide blooms.

Two new documentaries are making headlines. Gabriela Cowperthwaite's Blackfish centers on the whale that killed a trainer before an Orlando SeaWorld audience in 2010. The Act of Killing by human rights researcher Josh Oppenheimer, looks at the mass executions of communists in Indonesia in the 1960s.

Students and professors of a Media Exploration class at Florida Southwestern State College performed a conceptual protest piece during the “March for our…