-
La Jolla Symphony and Chorus Brings the Magic of Classical Music to a Young Audience
“One of the things I love most about music is how it helps us remember our lives.” – Conductor, Steven Schick So begins the second annual Young People’s Concert as Schick guides an audience of children and their families through a presentation of selections from Gustav Mahler’s celebrated Fifth Symphony. “Gustav Mahler’s symphony number five […]
-
UCTV’s Top 20 of 2014
The end of the year seems synonymous with top ten lists. We couldn’t quite limit ourselves to only ten out of the hundreds of programs we premiered in 2014 so we expanded it to twenty to give you more of a taste for the amazing diversity of topics and presenters on UCTV. From the Congo […]
-
Michael Pollan: “Don’t buy any cereal that changes the color of the milk.”
This year, renowned journalist, author, and food intellectual Michael Pollan received the 2014 Nierenberg Award for Science in the Public Interest. “Michael Pollan has shown that an English major can do great service to science in the public interest,” said Walter Tschinkel, one of many who introduced Pollan. “Science very much needs writers like Michael […]
-
Behind “Health Matters”: Ten Questions for Host Dr. David Granet
Back when Dr. David Granet was an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, he fulfilled his passion for sports by calling radio and TV play-by-play action for Penn’s Ivy League basketball team. Equally comfortable behind a microphone as when he’s performing delicate eye surgery – his specialty is childhood eye misalignments and disorders – Granet […]
-
China: Our Partner in Spending
So, is it a good thing that Chinese consumers are becoming more like Americans in their pursuit of Barbie Dolls, iPhones and designer clothes? Will their drive to acquire products boost the global economy? UC San Diego’s Karl Gerth offers a compelling analysis of how China’s embrace of consumerism is changing the world, but not […]
-
New Career Opportunities: Drones and Green Jobs
Did you know that San Diego is one of the world’s regional hotbeds for drone technologies? Join Tim McConnell, Director of Engineering at 3D Robotics, Inc. as he shares the unlikely story of his company’s genesis and explores the amazing opportunities and possibilities in an industry where truly, the sky is the limit. Or perhaps […]
-
We, The People
Sick of politics? Given the nastiness of the midterm elections, it’s no wonder. But for a refreshing change of pace, check out UCSD’s Conference on Ethics, Transparency and Civility. The three-part series features elected Democrats and Republicans candidly sharing what it’s like to serve in office and how most members do get along with one […]
-
Supercomputing and the Nobel Prize
Sometimes research worthy of the Nobel prize requires NERSC. NERSC? — National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center. It’s home to extremely powerful, extremely fast and extremely accurate computing and just turned 40. They celebrated the anniversary with a look at the research behind four Nobel Prizes: George Smoot, UC Berkeley – 2006 Nobel Prize for […]
-
Cyber Security: Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The first known use of the term “cyber security” was in 1994, yet 20 years later, it has become a powerful new field of academic research and public fascination. In an era of ‘black hats’, denial-of-service attacks, worms, viruses and Edward Snowden, society is increasingly turning to computer scientists for solutions. While much of the […]
-
Computer Models Aid Scientific Discovery
When things are too big, too small or impossible to manipulate safely, scientists turn to computer models to reproduce the behavior of natural and man-made systems. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s popular series, Field Trip in the Lab, returns with four new lectures that look at research enabled by computational modeling. Each lecture highlights cutting-edge science […]