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From Maternal Health to Menopause: UC San Diego Unveils New Research
UCTV invites viewers to watch the UC San Diego Women’s Health Symposium, an event that brings together researchers, clinicians, and students to examine critical issues in women’s health across the lifespan. Organized by the Center for OB/GYN Research Innovation and the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, the symposium features new research on maternal…
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The Moral Economy of Extraction: Rethinking the Energy Transition
We often talk about the energy transition as a move away from fossil fuels—but what if we’ve simply traded one kind of extraction for another? In a recent lecture at UC San Diego, Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge, laid out a compelling case that the global energy shift is…
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Built to Survive, Prone to Suffer: How Human Evolution Shapes Modern Health
Why do our bodies come with so many trade-offs—like back pain, difficult childbirth, or diseases linked to inflammation? Our newest CARTA series Mismatch: Human Origins and Modern Disease explores how different traits in the human body evolve over time—some as early as 1.5 billion years ago—and how those adaptations continue to affect our health today.…
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Pier into the Past: Scripps Women Who Changed Ocean Science
The Birch Aquarium shines a spotlight on the remarkable women who have shaped the field of marine plankton research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Blending science, history, and art, Judit Hersko, presents her imaginative visual narrative series, “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer.” Her performance transports viewers to the early days of Scripps…
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America’s Evolving Political Landscape
The United States is at a crossroads, with its two major political parties undergoing significant transformations. To better understand these changes and their implications for the country’s future, historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson recently sat down with UC Berkeley professor of law and history Dylan Penningroth for a timely and thought-provoking conversation. As…