Aggies Near & Far: Recent Episodes
Aggies Near & Far Podcast
We are a student organization dedicated to promoting cultural literacy and international colaboration through a podcast. Our organization is supported in part by the Global Education for All (GE4A) fellows program at the University of California Davis.
We sat down with UC Davis professor of water management Dr. Samuel Sandoval to talk about his experiences with tuition-free higher education in Mexico and the necessity of removing cost barriers to increase access to global higher education + a few bite-size interviews from Picnic Day 2022 about what global education looks like at UC Davis. Enjoy!
We take a look at study abroad in French-speaking countries by interviewing two undergraduate students who participated in UC Education Abroad Programs in Fall 2021. Evan Pearson studied through the Sciences Po program in Paris, France, while Sophia Mares de Juan took part in the Field Research and Internship Program, Brussels, Belgium. Our guests discuss the difficulties of navigating a foreign language and the rewarding experiences they had through their respective programs.
We take a look at the global Medical School experience by interviewing three members of the UC Davis Medical Center about their time studying medicine outside the United States. Dr. Allan Martin, Dr. Rosa Rodriguez, and Dr. Joseph Firriolo relate to us the ins and outs of their medical education experiences in Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Australia, respectively. Our guests discuss the cultural and logistical transitions that studying medicine abroad but practicing in the United States entails and they offer key insight into how they approached their studies and the process of earning a medical degree.
In this episode Sophia Minnillo interviews Filipino-American graduate students Peter Torres and Matthew Santos. They discuss how their identity shapes their experiences in graduate school at UC Davis. As linguists, Sophia and Peter dig into the details on the intersections of language and cultural identity. As a law student, Matthew focuses on how his identity affected his trajectory into the field. They also talk about their favorite Filipino foods, so make sure to grab a snack before you take a listen.
This is the inaugural episode for our UC Davis student organization Aggies Near & Far. David Soltero and Marina Mautner talk about how study abroad experiences affect how we see the world, focusing on students who have different relationships with Mexico. First, we talk with David who has visited his family in Mexico and participated in the Americans in Paris study abroad program through the University of California Education Abroad Program. Then, Marina discusses her experience studying abroad in Mexico. For our Global Perspectives segment, Marina interviews Dafne Uscunga, a Masters student from Mexico who has study abroad experiences in other countries. We wrap up the episode with our Guess that Sound segment.