UTSA Podcast Network

The UTSA Podcast Network shares stories of research, culture, leadership and innovation. Wherever you are, these podcasts connect you to the heart of the Roadrunner community.

Featured Podcasts

What do your bank, the power grid and your insulin pump have in common? A single day — “Q-Day” — could crack them all. Lorenzo Gomez, host of The Cilantro Diaries, sits down with Jeff Prevost on how close quantum computing is to breaking today’s encryption, and what to do before it does.

Architect Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, who leads the UT San Antonio School of Architecture + Planning, spoke with Bob Rivard, host of big city small town, about the impact of relocating the school to One Riverwalk Place in San Antonio’s urban core.

Michael Logan, sr. director for veteran and military affairs and U.S. Marine Corps veteran, joins Voices of Student Success to share how UTSA supports military-affiliated students.

New & Recommended

In this episode of the Launchpad podcast, Stephen Ackley, PhD, world-renowned sea ice expert and UT San Antonio associate professor, takes us deep into the frozen unknown of the polar regions. Drawing from 12 expeditions to Antarctica and four to the Arctic, Ackley shares thrilling firsthand accounts of surviving the planet’s most extreme environments.

In this episode of the Launchpad podcast, host John Elizondo sits down with Alan Whittington, PhD, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UT San Antonio, to explore the high-stakes science of volcanology. From dodging superheated pyroclastic density currents traveling over 100 mph to scooping up glowing red-hot lava samples in the field, Whittington offers an inside look at what it takes to study Earth’s most formidable natural phenomena.