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The Career Channel: Bridge to Better Employment
If you or someone you know is a recent college graduate or a graduate in career transition, then stop by UCTV’s newly launched Career Channel, powered by the employment experts at UC San DiegoExtension. As an unbiased provider of information, tools and experts, the channel aims to help job-seekers identify newly emerging areas of career opportunity and to develop paths and plans for necessary reskilling through research, reporting and public dialogue presented through video, radio and print. Check it out today and stay tuned for new programs about the ever-evolving career marketplace!
Got ‘Superwoman Syndrome?’
In today’s fast-paced world, many women face a unique set of pressures as they juggle life at home, at work, with their friends, and even their appearance. This six-part UCSF Osher Mini MedicalSchool series investigates the origins of these stressors and their physiological impacts, as well as current, scientifically-proven strategies for managing priorities, fostering wellness and achieving a balanced portfolio for health.
Healthy Mind, Healthy Body: A Woman’s Guide to Wellness in Today’s Challenging World
The Evolution of Human Nutrition
Tracing the evolution of the human diet from our earliest ancestors can lead to a better understanding of human adaptation in the past and may also offer clues to the origin of many health problems we currently face, such as obesity and chronic disease. This new series from UC San Diego’s Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA) focuses on the changing diets of our ancestors and what role these dietary transitions played in the evolution of humans.
The Evolution of Human Nutrition
Searching for Democracy
What does our democracy require of us? What are our shared values? How do we define and create a common good? Join the California Council for the Humanities and esteemed scholars, public intellectuals, policy specialists, journalists and authors for a series of conversations on the evolution of civic conversation and the changing nature of democracy over time.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS (PACIFIC TIMES)
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Health & Medicine
The Female Brain: Balancing Social Expectations with Your Own Health
Attention Deficits and Impulse Control Problems
The Alzheimer’s Prevention Program: Keep Your Brain Healthy for the Rest of Your Life
Shoulder Injury — Health Matters
Science
Lifting the Blanket: Pursuit of a Climate Change Solution
Exploring Beyond the Abyss: The Deep Sea Challenge Expedition
Science and Engineering Research in the Global World, with Subra Suresh
New Insights into the Early History of the Earth and Moon
Technology’s Promise, Humanity’s Future
Public Affairs
2012 Presidential Election Recap
It’s Time to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans, with Mickey Edwards
Ambassador Martin S. Indyk: The Middle East in Turmoil – What Does It Mean for Israel?
Manifesto for a New Economy with James Gustave Speth
National Security in the 21st Century with General James Cartwright
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Humanities
Peter Orner – Story Hour in the Library
The Humanities, without Apology
Lunch Poems: Aaron Shurin
Arts & Music
Walshok is the recipient of numerous awards including the Kellogg Foundation’s Leadership Fellowship and induction into Sweden’s Royal Order of the Polar Star. Active on boards of a number of arts and philanthropic organizations, Walshok chaired the boards of the San Diego Community foundation during 2002-2004 and the International Community Foundation during 2007-2009. She is currently serving on the boards of San Diego CONNECT (which she helped found in 1985), the La Jolla Playhouse, the United States-Mexico Foundation for Science, International Community Foundation, and the Girard Foundation.