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Get Serious About Climate Change
“Climate change is no longer in the future — its impacts are upon us, already.” So begins this Keeling Lecture featuring David Victor, an internationally recognized leader in research on energy and climate change policy. With the inevitability of climate change, we now must consider adaptation. How will we deal with its effects socially? Politically? […]
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Conversation with GoPro Founder, Nick Woodman
UC San Diego Alumnus and GoPro Founder Nick Woodman turned to his wife Jill recently and asked, “Is this really happening?” The occasion was Nick’s triumphant return to UC San Diego where he was interviewed along with Jill and former classmate Justin Wilkenfeld in front of a boisterous audience of students and GoPro fans. Watch […]
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Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal
In 2006, when Rebecca Dresser was diagnosed with oral cancer, her life was thrown off-balance. As a professor of law and biomedical ethics, she had been teaching and writing for years about the complex ethical, moral, and medical challenges of dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Yet she found herself personally unprepared for the […]
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Stories in the Ice
Much like the rings of a tree can tell us about its particular history, air bubbles trapped within large bodies of ice reveal secrets about our past climate and atmospheric composition. Scientists can extract a wealth of information by drilling thousands of meters down into earth’s massive continental ice sheets and extracting ice cores. By […]
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Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock
The Romani, not to be confused with the Romanian nation or people, are a diasporic ethnicity more widely known as “gypsies.” Throughout the world they are variously known as Rom, Roma, Romane, Cigáni and Gitano, just to name a few. In this presentation about the Romani and the Holocaust, Ian Hancock, professor of English and […]
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20 Years of NAFTA and Beyond – Mexico Moving Forward 2014
NAFTA’s impact on the last two decades and its effect on the future are featured prominently in this year’s UCSD-TV series, Mexico Moving Forward. Listen to business leaders, scholars, and social entrepreneurs provide diverse perspectives on the current economic challenges in Mexico, what can and is being done to address them, and how these lessons […]
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Global Health Day 2014
“Teach for California, Research for the World!” UC President Janet Napolitano neatly summarized what was on display all day at the 2014 UC Global Health Day at UC Davis. With enlightening talks on how breakthroughs happen, new strategies for disease control, and inspiring student-produced videos, you’ll share in the excitement and enthusiasm for what the […]
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Cesar Chavez and the Farmworker Movement
It began with 70 strikers. On March 17, 1966 after a stand-off with the Delano police, Cesar Chavez led La Peregrinacíon (The Pilgrimage), a march of Delano grape strikers and volunteers onto the highway en route to Sacramento. Their goal was to meet with the governor of California to protest the hazardous working conditions of […]
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The Pursuit of Happiness
Nearly all of us buy into what UC Riverside psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky calls the myths of happiness — beliefs that certain adult achievements (marriage, kids, jobs, wealth) will make us forever happy and that certain adult failures or adversities (health problems, divorce, having little money) will make us forever unhappy. In this presentation for […]