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We explore why this season is so active with Jeff Huffman, Chief Meteorologist and Director of the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network. We also discuss hurricane preparedness, and get some shelter advice during the time of COVID-19 with Jennifer Trammell, Board Chair for the Florida Gulf Coast to Heartland Chapter of the American Red Cross.

In March of 2019 Florida Gulf Coast University announced the creation of a new Water School that would focus on finding solutions through holistic research and education. It’s been nearly two years since that announcement, so we’re getting an update on what’s happened since with Dr. Greg Tolley, Professor of Marine Science and Executive Director of the FGCU Water School.

Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark passed away last month on April 9 at the age of 93. Clark served under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He supervised the drafting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. We get some insight into who Ramsey Clark was and the long life he lived with Fort Myers resident Woody Hanson. Hanson is a doctoral candidate in history at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. His dissertation 'Liberal Democracy & Radical Dissent’ connected him with Ramsey Clark for the past three years because Clark plays a central role in it.

We meet the creators of the "One True Podcast" which explores all things related to Ernest Hemingway, his work, and his world. It’s hosted by Dr. Mark Cirino, professor of English at University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana; and produced by Dr. Michael Von Cannon, instructor in the Department of Language & Literature at Florida Gulf Coast University.

A new podcast series produced by WMFE in Orlando, in partnership with the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting, explores the history of the Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan, or CERP, which was signed into law 20 years ago in the final days of the Clinton Administration. DRAINED is reported and hosted by WMFE environmental reporter, Amy Green, and edited by Trevor Aaronson and Matthew Peddie. We’re presenting the first episode today, called “A river runs dry.”

When our guest today came to Florida Gulf Coast University in 2007 the school didn’t even have a minor in entrepreneurship. But she immediately went to work to change that and is still here today working to grow the program. Dr. Sandra Kauanui is now Director of the FGCU School of Entrepreneurship. Since its founding in 2016 the school has rapidly grown. Its mission is to infuse an entrepreneurial mindset all across the university by offering an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship major, minor, and graduate certificate.

We’re talking with author and historian, Tom Hall, to take a deep dive into the history of the Robert E. Lee bust that’s been on a pedestal in downtown Fort Myers since 1966.

We get some history on mail in voting, around the U.S. and here in Florida, with Susan MacManus. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in political science at the University of South Florida. And Charles Stewart, Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT.

New research published in the journal Historical Archaeology confirms Mound Key in Estero Bay was the location of a Spanish fort historians have long-suspected once existed in Southwest Florida.

Throughout the month of July WGCU is celebrating the 30th anniversary with the “Move to Include” initiative, a nationwide public media effort that seeks to inspire and motivate people to embrace different abilities and include all people in all aspects of life.