University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

Some women know ahead of time that they will be having a cesarean section, sometimes the need for a cesarean section arises during a vaginal delivery. Dr. Julia Cormano explores the medical reasons for both planned and unplanned C-sections. Series: "Motherhood Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 36246]

Co-directors/producers Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney discuss their film Picture a Scientist (2020), which chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists. Their conversation gives insight to the films portrayal of the brutal harassment, institutional discrimination, and years of subtle slights faced by women in STEM. Shattuck and Cheney also delve into the production behind their documentary, offering viewers an inside look at the process of telling the story of scientific luminaries who provide new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse, equitable, and open to all. Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 36511]

Matt Nelson is Executive Director of Presente.org, the nation’s largest online Latinx organizing group dedicated to advancing social justice with technology, media, and culture. Born in Colombia and raised in the Midwest, Matt was the Organizing Director at ColorOfChange.org and co-founded several worker-owned cooperatives in multiple midwestern cities. He is a seasoned campaign strategist who has won dozens of local and national campaigns and a community organizer who has trained thousands of activists. Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 36288]

Jay Roach discusses the challenges in directing the Austin Powers Trilogy. In this video, Jay Roach talks with UCSB Pollock Theater Director, Matt Ryan, how he approached creating Austin Powers with Mike Meyers. With henchmen, fembots, and innuendo to spare, Austin Powers: quickly became a cultural phenomenon, spawning two sequels Series: "Carsey-Wolf Center" [Humanities] [Show ID: 36510]

Stem cells may play a critical role in treating genetic diseases. Hear from experts in the field.

Moderated by Matthew Porteus, MD, PhD, Stanford University

Tippi MacKenzie, MD, UC San Francisco: Fetal Therapy for Alpha Thalassemia Major

Matthew A. Spear, MD, Poseida Therapeutics: CAR-T Cells: Poseida Therapeutics

Stephen Gottschalk, MD, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital: Gene Therapy for X-linked SCID Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36351]

Stephen Gottschalk, MD

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36350]

Eminent biologist Jon Beckwith of the Harvard Medical School chronicles the experiences which awakened his activism in exposing and confronting social injustices promulgated by persistent cultural myths, notably eugenics and a genetic basis for criminality - cultural myths that persist at the highest levels of political discourse even today. Series: "A Deep Look into the Future of Biology" [Science] [Show ID: 36304]

This lecture kicks off with Professor Jayaraman’s discussion of “astroturf” social movements and the growing battle around California’s Ballot Propositions 15 and 22. These propositions represent two attempts of billionaires to privatize the public-school system in California and to re-write the state’s labor laws to impose “independent contractor” status upon millions of gig workers. From there Professor Cohen takes up the main topic of voting rights and the long history of voter suppression in the United States with particular emphasis upon the Trump administration’s efforts to suppress voter turnout and challenge the election results after November 3. Remember, if your vote didn’t matter, they wouldn’t try so hard to suppress it. So if you have not already, go and vote early, especially in those down ballot races that really matter.

Series: "UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 36513]

Phuong Ly-Gallagher was only 29 when diagnosed with colorectal cancer. In this compelling interview, she shares her journey from patient to survivor and advocate. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36435]

Stem cells are on the forefront of the fight against rare pediatric diseases. Experts discuss current therapies and future hopes while a father shares his experience getting treatment for his son.

Moderated by Mort Cowan, MD, UC San Francisco

Pawash Priyank: Patient Perspective

Diana Farmer, MD, FACS, FRCS, UC Davis: Making Miracles Come To Life Through Stem Cells

Rosa Bacchetta, MD, Stanford University: Towards a cure for IPEX: engineered-Treg replacement or stem cell gene editing Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 36346]