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This week – we bring you episode 2 of the Delaware Humanities’ podcast: A More Perfect Union.The podcast explores the concept of “identity” in Delaware - and this second episode focuses on culture and community

The Univ. of Delaware has gotten some serious attention this month with both of its basketball teams reaching the NCAA Tournament.But how do you turn those briefly caught up in March Madness into true blue Blue Hen supporters. Delaware Public Media intern Patrick LaPorte – a UD senior - reports on UD’s efforts to build and keep a fanbase.

They say a dog is man’s best friend. But at Baylor Correctional Institution in New Castle County, it’s women who have found friendship with the canines.The women’s prison is host to a new program called Paws for Change - a partnership with the Brandywine Valley SPCA which works with volunteers to bring certified therapy dogs into the facility.And as Delaware Public Media’s Rebecca Baer learned the animals are providing some encouragement to inmates working to turn their lives around.

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You could call this week a little “batty.”It’s “Bat Week” - an international celebration of the role of bats in nature. And Halloween is Sunday, with bats a staple of that holiday’s frightful decorations.But in reality, biologists say our environment would be a more frightening place without bats.In this week’s Enlighten Me, Delaware Public Media’s Joe Irizarry chats with Holly Niederriter, a bat expert with DNREC, about this often-misunderstood creature.

While the state of Delaware and the new Friends of the Cooch’s Bridge Historic Site develop their plans to interpret centuries of history at the property near Newark, the inescapable reality is that the Revolutionary War battle there will remain “the number one draw for the site,”

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A plan to develop the former Brandywine Country Club in Brandywine Hundred faces some roadblocks to approval.The biggest appears to be motor vehicle access to the proposed apartment and single-family housing project.Contributor Larry Nagengast initially reported on this plan earlier this fall and this week updates where it stands.

Children’s hospitals and pediatricians have declared a national state of emergency when it comes to children’s mental health.Delaware Public Media’s Rebecca Baer recently spoke with the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Delaware chapter president Dr. Kirk Reichard about this crisis and what can be done to address it.

This fall, the nonprofit Conservation Fund donated a parcel of land near Millsboro to the Nanticoke tribe – a historic move that gives the tribe ownership of an ancestral parcel that was privately owned for generations.Contributor Jon Hurdle explains how this came about – and what the tribe’s plans are for the land.