University of California Audio Podcasts (Audio)

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Berkeley’s 2016 HarvEst Distinguished Women Lecturer, Frances Dinkelspiel, for a discussion of her work as an author and journalist. Dinkelspiel reflects on the skills and temperament required in journalism and highlights the particular challenges posed by online journalism. She describes the history of Berkeleyside, the online news site she founded to cover the city of Berkeley. The conversation includes a discussion of her book on her great grandfather Isaias Hellman, an important banker in the founding of the California economy. Tangled Vines, her book on the California wine industry is also discussed. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 30560]

UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute’s Larry Smarr, noted authority in information technology and high-performance computing hosts a discussion with UC San Diego’s Rob Knight, leading expert on microbiomes and bioinformatics who is widely renowned for his early and innovative investigations of the symbiotic relationships between microbial life and humans, about how the unique cyberinfrastructure resources for Big Data at UC San Diego will drive applications in the new frontier of microbiome research. Series: "Computing Primetime" [Science] [Show ID: 29711]

Leanne Chukoskie, Institute for Neural Computation at UC San Diego, presents both the benefits, as well as the challenges, in her experience with delivering a home-based video game intervention designed to train spatial attention control in teens on the Autism Spectrum. The ability to deliver interventions in the home offers both convenience and greater access for families. However, the need to evaluate the success of the interventions in the home also poses some challenges. Series: "Exploring Ethics" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30013]

Climate change policy expert David Victor, a professor of International Relations at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy & Strategy and two of his graduate students provide insights into the process and the outcome of the 2015 COP 21 climate talks in Paris. Victor has been a participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) proceedings since the IPCC’s inception Victor is presented here by the UC San Diego Library Channel. Series: "The Library Channel" [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 30487]

An all-UC Davis panel of marketing experts dive into the hot topic of marketing using big data and how to build a brand using data-driven storytelling. Panelists: Abby Lunardini BA 97, Vice President, Brand Marketing and Communications, Virgin America; Aaron Carpenter MBA 98, Chief Customer Officer, Hubnami; Associate Professor Ashwin Aravindakshan, UC Davis Graduate School of Management; and moderated by Lisa Maulhardt MA 92, Executive Vice President, SYPartners. Series: "UC Davis Graduate School of Management's Dean's Distinguished Speaker Series" [Business] [Show ID: 30681]

Nearly 5. 3 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias today – and that number will rise to 16 million by the year 2050. The fatal, neuro-degenerative disease’s long duration, costly care, and the absence of a cure or treatment will have dramatic effects on families, health care systems, as well as financial models in the years to come. Mary Ball, who serves as the president and chief executive officer of Alzheimer’s San Diego describes collaborations among leading research organizations to generate treatments and cures as well as preventive measures. Series: "The Pulse" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30684]

With more than 2200 entities in operation, nonprofit organizations employ 8.1 percent of the total San Diego workforce. Are there particular skills or traits needed to find a job and thrive in this rewarding space? Explore the nonprofit career landscape with Laura Deitrick, Interim Director for the Institute for Nonprofit Research and Education at the University of San Diego. Series: "Career Talk" [Business] [Show ID: 30778]

Richard Schneider looks at how individual components of the face and skull achieve their proper size, shape, and functional integration during development and evolution. His goal is to devise novel therapies for regenerating tissues affected by birth defects, disease, and trauma. Schneider is in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at UCSF. Series: "UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine presents Mini Medical School for the Public" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 30147]

The world food system comprises hundreds of millions of farmers making decisions in response to economic signals and environmental expectations. However, many of these farmers are food insecure by any number of metrics, and their production is threatened by anthropogenic climate change. Against this backdrop, what are the prospects for a world free from hunger? Using global data as well as smaller-scale studies of innovative technologies and strategies, Jennifer Burney of UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy explores the potential for a resilient food system at the heart of a new sustainable development agenda. Series: "UC San Diego Founders’ Symposium" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 30323]

The amazing advances made in mapping the human genome don’t alter one longstanding fact: when it comes to unlocking the scientific secrets of life, fruit flies rule. Uptal Banerjee, Chair of the the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at UCLA, explains that most principles that have been laid out in developmental biology — from mechanisms of stem cell maintenance to how a head differs from a tail — came from work in Drosophila Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 30565]