University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

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]

Learn more about the amazing seadragons, as well as the recent discovery of a new species: the Ruby Seadragon, one of only three species of these charismatic fishes that live exclusively in the waters off southern Australia. Join graduate student Josefin Stiller, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to learn how she and her advisors discovered the new species and how genetic diversity data is helping inform conservation efforts for these beautiful animals. Series: "Jeffrey B. Graham Perspectives on Ocean Science Lecture Series" [Science] [Show ID: 30405]

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]

Two presentations from the Constructions of Terrorism Conference at UCSB in December 2015: Ambiguities in the Terrorist Discourse and the Political Imagination of Violence with Richard Falk, Princeton University, and Legal Constructions of Terrorism with Richard Burchill, TRENDS Research and Advisory. Series: "Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30471]

In this information-rich age when voluminous amounts of data are being generated, processed, and transformed at ever increasing rates, Joann Kuchera-Morin asks how does one master control, working with these data as if it were intuitive and second nature? Can one master control much in the same way that a composer or musician creates or performs a composition, with intuitive precision? And if so, could one design a computational framework that could support this creative process, allowing researchers of different fields to work with their data as artists do? Series: "Women in Science" [Humanities] [Show ID: 30518]

Michael Nacht, former defense advisor to Presidents Clinton and Obama, and now public policy professor with expertise in nuclear arms control and national security, assesses global threats with Henry E. Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: "The UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30578]

UC San Diego students and alumni showcase their finished videos and video projects in process. March 2016. [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 29917]

Graduate student Rob Moore recalls his experiences as an organizer for Planned Parenthood in Nebraska in this conversation with Henry E. Brady, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley. Series: "The UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30585]

Graduate student Charlotte Hill is taking a year off from the Goldman School of Public Policy to work for Represent Us, a non-profit group organized to pass tough laws banning political corruption in cities and states across America. Series: "The UC Public Policy Channel" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30586]

The Affordable Healthcare Act may have improved access to health care but some races and ethnicities continue to experience implicit bias, structural barriers, and poorer health outcomes than other groups. In this month’s Pulse podcast, Dr. Rodney Hood, a board-certified internist and the managing director of CareView Medical Group in San Diego, shares his career path, research, and community health initiatives that dramatically improve patient outcomes while saving health care systems millions of dollars. Series: "The Pulse" [Health and Medicine] [Business] [Show ID: 30666]