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Aspen native Elizabeth Stewart-Severy is excited to be making a return to both the Red Brick, where she attended kindergarten, and the field of journalism. She has spent her entire life playing in the mountains and rivers around Aspen, and is thrilled to be reporting about all things environmental in this special place. She attended the University of Colorado with a Boettcher Scholarship, and graduated as the top student from the School of Journalism in 2006. Her lifelong love of hockey lead to a stint working for the Colorado Avalanche, and she still plays in local leagues and coaches the Aspen Junior Hockey U-19 girls.

Longtime investigative reporter and editor Robert Little leads NPR's investigations team, working with reporters, producers, and editors to develop investigative stories for all of NPR's broadcast and digital platforms. Since joining NPR in 2013, Little has directed and edited many of the network's signature investigative projects.

Claudia Grisales is a congressional reporter assigned to NPR's Washington Desk.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded the University of Kentucky a prestigious center grant to share its expertise and lead national efforts to build diverse academic research environments. This will be accomplished by the oversight of the new Support of Research Excellence (SuRE) R16 grant program designed to foster research capacity building at colleges and universities that serve underrepresented students. Dr. Greg talks with program co-director Brett Spear.

A new study conducted by a group of researchers has found that people who experience interpersonal violence or child abuse face a more than 20% increased risk of developing diabetes. The study, “Lifetime Interpersonal Violence or Abuse and Diabetes Rates by Sex and Race,” was recently published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Dr. Greg talks with one of the researchers, Dr. Ann Coker; the interim executive director of the University of Kentucky Center for Research on Violence Against Women (CRVAW).

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Weezer (A Little Bit Of Love), Little Quirks (The Rain), half•alive (Move Me), Belle And Sebastian (If They're Shooting At You), Tré Burt (Know Your Demons), MUNA (Anything But Me), & Arcade Fire (The Lightning I, II)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Calexico (Harness The Wind), Shaed (Come As You Are), Belle & Sebastian (Unnecessary Drama), Bartees Strange (Heavy Heart), Cowboy Junkies (Five Years), Yola (Dancing Away In Tears), & Jewel (Long Way Round (Woohoo))!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Jude Flannery (Quiet By Your Side), Genesis Owusu (Get Inspired), The Jorgensens (Dark Road), Myron Elkins (Hands To Myself), Sunny War (No Reason), Hayley Lynn (Danny DeVito), & Sammy Hagar & The Circle (Father Time)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Phoenix Featuring Ezra Koenig (Tonight), Odesza Featuring The Knocks (Love Letter), The Black Angels (Empire Falling), GA-20 (Fairweather Friend), Lylak (Samba (Same Old Haunts), Barns Courtney (Supernatural), & Lake Street Dive (Anyone Who Had A Heart)!

This week on Joe’s Blues Vintage soul recordings mixed with neo soul recordings…A fully stocked hour of songs out of time – “Real & Retro Soul”