UC Santa Barbara (Video)

Daryl Bernstein has had repeated success turning ideas into companies. He speaks on bootstrap vs. VC business models, guerrilla marketing, brand positioning, and surviving the startup stage. Series: "Innovator Stories: Creating Something from Nothing" [Business] [Show ID: 30342]

Director Jeff Malmberg talks with UC Santa Barbara students about his award-winning feature documentary Marwencol, which is about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancam created after a violent attack left him unable to read, walk, eat, write, or recall anything of his adult life. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Health and Medicine] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30456]

Academy Award nominated screenwriter Josh Singer talks about Spotlight, the film about reporters delving into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30591]

Legendary civil rights advocate Morris Dees addresses how our commitment to justice for all will determine our nation’s success in the next century as America becomes more diverse and economic disparity widens. Drawing upon past and current cases, he also examines the issue of hate crimes and the need to teach tolerance, love and respect for one another. Dees co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in 1971 to handle lawsuits involving civil rights violations, domestic terrorism, and hate-motivated crimes. Since then the Center has successfully battled and dismantled a series of hate groups, including the Aryan Nation, Ku Klux Klan, and has secured huge criminal, civil, and financial judgments against them. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30272]

The Double-Heterostructure Concept: How it Got Started with Herbert Kroemer. Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with John Bowers. Light, Noise, and Darkness with Amnon Yariv. “Plastic” Solar Cells with Alan Heeger. First Light: the Cosmic Microwave Background and Early Universe Physics with Eva Silverstein. Energy Awareness: Seeing Energy to Save Energy with Bill Parrish. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30222]

Blue LED and Prospects for the Lighting Industry with Shuji Nakamura. Energy Savings and Future Directions in Solid State Lighting with Steve DenBaars. Semiconductor Lasers: Vertical, Tunable, Enabling Photonic ICs with Larry Coldren. Lightwave Technologies Are Key To: Good Health, Good Communications & Good Entertainment with Waguih Ishak. Quantum Sensing and Imaging with Photoluminescent Single Spins with Ania Jayich. Tunable Biophotonics with Dan Morse. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30223]

We are visual beings, and qualities such as “insight” and “vision” describe our understanding well beyond sensory input. Light and more generally, electromagnetic radiation, has dramatically changed our knowledge of the physical world. It is also the source of the oxygen we breathe, the food we eat, and the energy that has powered the world since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Nobel Laureate Steven Chu, Professor of Physics, Professor Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Stanford University, discusses how light will continue to expand our scientific horizons and redefine our daily lives: from the measurement of time, to biology, medicine, and combating climate change. Series: "Scientific Horizons" [Science] [Show ID: 30224]

Ambassador Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping US policy toward the Middle East, and Israel specifically, for nearly thirty years. He takes us through every administration from Truman to Obama, throwing into dramatic relief each president’s attitudes toward Israel and the region, the often tumultuous debates between key advisers, and the events that drove the policies and at times led to a shift in approach. Series: "Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30275]

Jacqueline Rose, University of London, examines the film Niagara, its star Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood, and what Rose terms the "loving cruelty of cinema in relation to women." Rose is welcomed to UCSB by Professor of Film and Media Studies Constance Penley. Niagara is a unique specimen of baroque Technicolor film noir, starring Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotten. The film tells the story of a pair of couples at Niagara Falls -- one honeymooning, the other disintegrating -- and explores desire, insanity, and the drive toward fatal attraction. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 30402]

Scientists describe the climate-havoc wrought on our natural world as the end of ‘stationarity’—a shift of the ecosystem so profound that it is no longer possible to extrapolate into the future from past patterns. Award-winning environmental journalist, Mark Schapiro, takes us on a journey to the tension points where these shifts are vividly underway. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: Walter H. Capps Center Series" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30274]