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This yearly confab provides a platform for UCSB's faculty and collaborators to showcase the science and technology at UC Santa Barbara that's makin...

Reflections on the conference and plans for the future. Series: Sustainability Conference: Working Our Way to Zero [Public Affairs] [Science] [Sho...

Adolescent sexuality in the United States has experienced many changes in the last 30 years. Key changes include an increased political focus on th...

Noted journalist and author James Fallows traces how the role of the Pacific Region has grown in international affairs in this address to the Scho...

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Oxford University Professor Tariq Ramadan for a discussion of his new book, "What I Believe." Reflecting on the format...

We often think of vaccines being only for children but Dr. Eliseo Perez-Stable, an expert on the prevention of infectious diseases, explains that a...

How is Earth's magnetic field important to making our planet habitable? Where does it come from, and how quickly does it change? Join Geophysicist ...

Take a biographical peek into the lives of Frank and Tilly Wedekind, two well-known stars in German visual performance history. This play, written ...

Jonathan Friedman is a distinguished professor of anthropology at UC San Diego and Directeur d'études, EHESS, Paris. Arguing for the necessity of a...

George Packer, staff writer for "The New Yorker," argues that President Obama's policy on Afghanistan, and the war itself, show how difficult it is...

SDSU's lively 1960's adaptation of the classic comedy is designed to give high school students (and those new to Shakespeare) an introduction to th...

Kevin Cleary, President and COO of Emeryville, California based Clif Bar & Company, explores how this privately held, employee owned company is als...

Lorenzo Rossaro, UC Davis Professor of Gastroenterology, and an internationally recognized authority on liver disease presents a update on the trea...

Richard Thaler is renowned for his extremely influential contributions to the emerging field of behavioral economics over the last three decades. H...

Hydrocarbon fuels come almost exclusively from underground. We burn the coal or oil to obtain energy - and for hundreds of years, we have then allo...

Parkinson's disease is a degenerative neurological disease that manifests in many different ways often making it difficult to recognize. What new i...

Our future health, happiness and economic well-being depends on producing plentiful, inexpensive, carbon-free energy that is available 24 hours/day...

Ira Flatow, science journalist and host of NPR's Science Friday discusses why "Science is Sexy" in his acceptance address for the 2010 Nierenberg P...

How do we cut California's Gordian knot? UC Berkeley faculty and noted alumni discuss realistic solutions for intractable problems such as deficits...

Claire Brindis moderates a panel with Andrew Bindman, Mark Laret and Diane Rittenhouse who look at the passage and implication of health reform. Se...

Alzheimer's is a neurodegenerative disease that has no cure and impacts as many as 5 million Americans. Scientists are desperately looking for ne...

Learn how to build mental and physical resilience when managing the stress of everyday life. Series: "UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public" [1/...

Dr. Jaqueline Leung addresses the prevalence, risk factors and outcomes of postoperative delirium and cognitive decline in older surgical patients....

This lecture outlines new network mapping approaches and highlights how these can be applied to understanding postoperative cognitive decline. Seri...

Dr. Xie examines the up-stream mechanisms, including mitochondria dysfunction, by which isoflurane induces apoptosis and AB accumulation, the Alzhe...

The lecture focuses on the neurological substrates of Alzheimer's Disease and Parkinson's Disease Dementia. Series: "UCSF Cognitive Decline Symposi...

Dr. Kristine Yaffe discusses relevant population-based studies on risk factors for cognitive decline with a particular focus on metabolic and infla...

Dr. Mucke summarizes how proteins such asamyloid-beta, tau, apolipoprotein E4 and alpha-synuclein may contribute to the development of Alzheimer's ...

Supplements, herbs, aromatherapy - Americans are estimated to spend $15 billion annually on alternative therapies. But remember, herbal remedies ar...

How can health care providers address health inequities in our communities? Allan Johnson provides an alternative way of thinking about issues of p...

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, this panel discussion examines the impact of the Peace Corps on the lives of distinguish...

Shakti Butler explores possibilities for transforming the internal and external aspects of racism and privilege. She looks at how privilege operate...

As part of UC San Diego's Division of Physical Sciences 50th Anniversary Lecture Series, join UC San Diego's Tom Murphy on an exploration of how hi...

UC Berkeley alumna Geralyn Ryan produced this video oral history from interviewing the employees of the Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans Distri...

Laura Arpan and Andy Opel discuss their current project using research to design, produce and evaluate energy efficiency video PSAs. The project c...

For many of us, today's world is out of balance, characterized by breaking news every minute, instant messaging, new technologies to be mastered an...

Woutrina Miller, UC Davis, looks at zoonotic diseases at the human/animal/environment interface. Jennifer Ifft, UC Berkeley, explores consumer valu...

From the UCSF 2010 Liver Transplant Update, a current controversy in transplant surgery is the extension of indications for live donor liver transp...

David Becker, MD, MPH is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He works with...

Whitney L. Duncan, UC San Diego, explores mental health and migration in a changing Oaxaca with a view from the psychiatric hospital. Margaret Hand...

From the 2010 Liver Transplant Update, Dr. Gropper of UCSF presents an overview of the ICU care of the critically ill patient, with special attenti...

Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Director General of the Carso Health Institute in Mexico City and UC Irvine Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow, explores the p...

Virgilio Viana has spent years working to prevent deforestation in Brazil, particularly in his role as environment secretary for the state of Amazo...

Dr. Laura Stachel started We Care Solar, after field research in Nigeria. She discovered a barrier to maternal care was a lack of reliable electric...

Luisa Cabal, Director of the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, ties human rights with the health and empowerment o...

Join us for this riveting presentation by noted scholar and author Elyn Saks, J.D., Ph.D., who gives a first hand account of her personal journey t...

Mary-Helen Barcellos-Hoff, describes the interface between basic science research and development of treatments and prevention strategies for breas...

Peak oil may have come and gone, yet we are using oil faster than we are discovering it and have only just begun to think about alternatives. Join ...

Resources for training and strategies for implementing national standards for autism treatment. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neuro...

A discussion of autism issues in the Philippines. Series: "M.I.N.D. Institute Lecture Series on Neurodevelopmental Disorders" [Health and Medicine]...