For the final episode of Office Hours: Student Spotlight in the 2025–2026 academic year, Varun talks with Iqra Devlani, who at the time was a fourth-year student pursuing an Honours Specialization in Psychology and a Minor in Disability Studies.
Join Olivia and Dr. Kujala for a thoughtful and engaging conversation that ranges from classical political thought to contemporary debates around policing, social movements, and the role of theory in understanding the world around us.
In this year’s first episode of Office Hours: Student Spotlight, Olivia chats with Ovi Kulkarni, a fourth-year International Presidential Scholar pursuing an Honours Specialization in Political Science and a major in Governance, Leadership, and Ethics.
In this semester’s final episode of Office Hours: Student Spotlight, Emilee sat down with Faiza Gebi and discussed, among other things, the power of fronting aspects of one’s identity, history, or background in their research. Faiza notes that this has allowed her to not only learn new things about herself, but also, and importantly, enter new aspects or contextual articulations into ongoing conversations and, in doing so, teach others something new, even experts on the topic.
In this semester’s final episode of the Office Hours podcast Alex talks with Dr. Melissa Meade, Assistant Professor in Psychology at Huron. They dig into Dr. Meade’s background in the arts and the beauty that can emerge when combining interests from different areas. In Dr. Meade’s case, she discusses how her background in the arts and her own personal experiences of creating art influenced the types of questions she initially asked surrounding the act of drawing and how it might help to benefit memory performance in general and its influences on biological processes such as those associated with aging and cognitive decline.