Host Stacy Nick talks with the creator of the Queer Memory Project, CSU Associate Professor Tom Dunn, about the online archive dedicated to Northern Colorado's queer history, and how the project aims to document everything from the death of Matthew Shepard to CSU's first (and last) male homecoming queen to personal stories of what everyday life was like for members of Northern Colorado's LGBTQ+ community.

The Audit: Archiving Northern Colorado’s LGBTQ+ history

Host Stacy Nick talks with CSU Veterinary Extension Specialist and disaster preparation and recovery expert Dr. Ragan Adams and CSU meat specialist and Associate Professor for the College of Agricultural Sciences Jennifer Martin about the threat of African swine fever and CSU’s role in combating it.

The Audit: How CSU is preparing for African Swine Fever

Host Stacy Nick talks with Colorado State University's Katie Abrams about her research into social marketing and communications strategies for protecting the great outdoors from -- us.

The Audit: Keeping wildlife and tourists safe could all be in the messaging

Audit host Stacy Nick and entomologist and CSU Bug Zoo Director Maia Holmes discuss that age-old question: Why did the tarantula cross the road?

The Audit: Don't call it a 'migration,' Colorado's tarantulas go on walkabouts

Audit host Stacy Nick talks with Michael Bartolo, senior research scientist emeritus at CSU's Arkansas Valley Research Center and "father" of one of Pueblo's hottest crops.

The Audit: A few seeds and a little luck gave us the iconic Pueblo chile

Audit host Stacy Nick talks with CSU filmmakers Steve Weiss and Jesse Grace about their latest project,“Democracy Vs. The Big Lie: The Truth Behind Mail-in Voting,” which looks at the controversy over mail-in voting during the 2020 U.S. election.

The Audit: CSU filmmakers’ new documentary looks to uncover the ‘Big Lie’ about mail-in voting

Audit host Stacy Nick talks with Colorado State University professor Ann Little, an expert on early North American history, about our fascination with the witch trials from that time and what a modern-day witch hunt could look like.

For one CSU professor, America’s connection to witches is less ‘Hocus Pocus,’ more historical

Audit host Stacy Nick talks with CSU Sociology Professor Michael Carolan about how food and food systems can play a role in building empathy and bridging our nation's deep divide.

Can healing our divided nation start at the dinner table?

There are more than 600 prison agricultural programs currently in the United States, but very little data looking at the how, what, and maybe most importantly, why of these programs. Colorado State University's Prison Agriculture Lab is looking to change that. Co-directors Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault talk about the lab's recently published landmark dataset analyzing the different types of current prison agricultural programs, as well as the underlying drivers behind them.

CSU’s Prison Agriculture Lab researches the roots, impact of the prison agricultural system

Colorado State University’s new podcast, The Audit, features conversations with CSU faculty on everything from research to current events. Just as auditing a class provides a fun way to explore a new subject or field, The Audit allows listeners to explore the latest works from the experts at CSU.

Colorado State University's The Audit