UCTV: UC Irvine

Financing A College Education: Tips for Families

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 8:20:09 PDT

Financial aid, tax credits and savings plans, scholarships, payment plans - these are some of the ways to finance your education. Series: "Applying to UC" [Education] [Show ID: 22960]

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Student Services and Support Programs

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 8:20:12 PDT

One of the keys to student success is being proactive in seeking out services offered at the UC and CSU campuses. Learn more about these services and how to use them. Series: "Applying to UC" [Education] [Show ID: 22961]

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Educational Opportunity Program at UC and CSU

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 8:20:05 PDT

Find out more about EOP, a program that provides academic support and retention services to low income and educationally underserved students. Learn who may apply and the services provided. Series: "Applying to UC" [Education] [Show ID: 22958]

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The Transfer Path: High School to Community College to CSU and UC

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 8:20:07 PDT

Community college students can become eligible for admission to UC and CSU by meeting specific requirements. Find out more about this path. Series: "Applying to UC" [Education] [Show ID: 22959]

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His Holiness XIV Dalai Lama at UC Irvine

Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:16:36 PDT

His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama returned to UC Irvine to engage students and the community about compassion and global leadership. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 22640]

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Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti: Wide-Angle and Close-up/Outsider and Insider: How the Haitian Story Gets Told

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:35:34 PDT

A diverse group of storytellers gathers to explore how stories about Haiti are told and how the story different inside and outside Haiti. Series: "Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20917]

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Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti: Dreams and Reality

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:41:41 PDT

A diverse group of storytellers gathers to explore how stories about Haiti are told. Examine the dreams and the realties. Series: "Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20856]

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Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti: Democracy/Dystopia

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:42:05 PDT

A diverse group of storytellers gathers to explore how stories about Haiti are told. Explore the potential for democracy amid the human misery in Haiti. Series: "Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20915]

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Major Trends in Global Health: A Social Investment Perspective

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:29:35 PDT

Roberto Tapia-Conyer, Director General of the Carso Health Institute in Mexico City and UC Irvine Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow, explores the potential of social investment to affect global health issues. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20619]

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Promoting Women’s Health and Empowerment Through Human Rights

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:29:12 PDT

Luisa Cabal, Director of the International Legal Program at the Center for Reproductive Rights, ties human rights with the health and empowerment of women around the world. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20617]

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Enhancing Women’s Health and Empowerment: Challenges and New Strategies

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 13:29:24 PDT

Bernadine Han, UC Berkeley/UCSF, discusses the promotion of family planning and women’s rights in Indian public space. Nina Smart, UC Irvine, explores the silence on the globalization of anti-female genital mutilation legislation in the parliament of Sierra Leone. Laura Packel, UCSF, looks at HIV risk reduction behaviors in Tanzania. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20618]

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One Health: Water Animals Food and Society

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:04:59 PDT

Woutrina Miller, UC Davis, looks at zoonotic diseases at the human/animal/environment interface. Jennifer Ifft, UC Berkeley, explores consumer valuation of safety labeled free range chicken through results of a field experiment in Ha Noi. T.S. Harvey, UC Riverside, looks at Cyanobacteria blooms that put Maya peoples at risk. Raul Chuquiyauri, UC San Diego, explores the molecular epidemiology of plasmodium vivax malaria relapses in the Peruvian Amazon. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20615]

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Migration and Health: Challenges of Population Mobility

Tue, 1 Feb 2011 16:00:40 PDT

Whitney L. Duncan, UC San Diego, explores mental health and migration in a changing Oaxaca with a view from the psychiatric hospital. Margaret Handley, UCSF, looks at navigating the slipstream of changing food environments through a binational perspectives on dietary behaviors and implications for nutrition counseling. And, Micah Gell-Redman, UC San Diego, addresses politics, borders and risk. Series: "UC Global Health Institute" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 20616]

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Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti: The Historic Narrative

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:26:44 PDT

Contains adult language. A diverse group of storytellers gathers to explore how stories about Haiti are told. Explore the historic narrative in Haitian literature. Series: "Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20916]

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Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti: People Poetry

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:27:37 PDT

A diverse group of storytellers gathers to explore how stories about Haiti are told. Explore the poetry of Haiti. Series: "Haiti Stories/Istwa Ayiti" [Humanities] [Show ID: 20918]

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The University We Are For

Wed, 5 May 2010 11:41:43 PDT

The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, pedagogical delivery and organizational form. Join a distinguished panel as they discuss “the university we are for” and explore issues crucial to the contemporary academy. [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 18503]

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Influenced

Fri, 8 Oct 2010 13:33:15 PDT

This documentary short program demonstrates some of the unintended negative influences parents may have on their children. Influenced was produced in with support from Project Aware, which was created in 2003 to create a forum for expressing the concerns of young people. [Public Affairs] [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Show ID: 19220]

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UC Irvine’s Olive Tree Initiative

Mon, 9 Mar 2009 10:31:03 PDT

Fourteen students from UC Irvine who traveled in September to Israel and Palestine as part of the Olive Tree Initiative share their deepened understanding of the conflicts in the Middle East. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15885]

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The American Southwest: Are We Running Dry?

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:02:14 PDT

The Urban Water Research Center at UCI presents this documentary by James Thebaut which chronicles the use of water in the southwestern U.S. and ultimately, asks the question, “Are We Running Dry”. This compelling program, narrated by Jane Seymour, takes a serious look at water policy in the Southwest and what changes may be in store in the future. [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 15738]

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Science and Math Integrating Literacy in Early Childhood

Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:21:05 PDT

Explore how early childhood educators and parents can encourage science and math literacy through real world and classroom activities. Experts utilize current research to show how math and science learning can be integrated into early reading activities. [Science] [Education] [Show ID: 14224]

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The New Food Wars: Globalization GMOs and Biofuels

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:17:15 PDT

Across the world, food riots are taking place. Scientist and activist Vandana Shiva explores whether the future will be one of food wars or food peace. She argues that the creation of food peace demands a major shift in the way food is produced and distributed, and the way in which we manage and use the soil, water and biodiversity, which makes food production possible. 17th Annual Margolis lecture at UC Irvine. [Public Affairs] [Science] [Show ID: 14509]

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Science and the University: An Evolutionary Tale - Science Security and Control

Thu, 22 May 2008 13:21:03 PDT

Donald Kennedy, the editor-in-chief of Science, asks if in the later phases of the Cold War or in the early phases of the Terror War, universities find themselves witnessing a replay of the old battle between science, which would prefer to have everything open, and security, which would like to have some of it secret. After 9/11 a host of new issues surfaced. At the same time, science was confronting a different kind of security problem: instead of being employed to decide policy, science was being manipulated or kept secure in order to justify preferred policy outcomes. Series: "Clark Kerr Lecture Series on the Role of Higher Education" [Education] [Show ID: 13558]

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Health Advocacy and Health Justice

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:33:17 PDT

Dr. Robert Ross, president and chief executive officer for The California Endowment, addresses a group of medical students at UC Irvine on expanding access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities, and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 13837]

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Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:23:25 PDT

President Bush has called nuclear terror the defining threat the United States now faces. Graham Allison of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government argues that nuclear terror is preventable with a strategy based on the Three No's: no loose nukes, no nascent nukes, and no new nuclear states. Graham Allison is a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism. This is the 16th Annual Margolis Lecture. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 12850]

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Maxine Hong Kingston - The American Sojourn

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:27:30 PDT

Award-winning writer Maxine Hong Kingston is known for her works reflecting on Chinese-American culture and heritage. She is the author most recently of The Fifth Book of Peace, and won the National Book Award for her 1980 novel China Men. In 1997, she received the National Humanities Medal from President Bill Clinton. A native of California, Kingston is now a professor emerita at UC Berkeley. [Humanities] [Show ID: 12224]

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PRIME-LC: UC Irvine Training Physicians for California

Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:11:20 PDT

Learn about an innovative program at the UC Irvine School of Medicine, PRIME-LC, that is creating highly qualified, culturally sensitive and linguistically competent physicians to serve the Latino community. UC Irvine Chancellor, Michael V. Drake, M.D., and Alberto Manetta M.D., Senior Associate Dean of Educational Affairs, UC Irvine School of Medicine, explore this crucial mission. [Health and Medicine] [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 12027]

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U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policy: India Pakistan and Beyond

After four wars, Kashmiris and their land are divided between Pakistan and India, the source of recurring crises. The next war may well be a nuclear war. Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy, a Professor of Physics at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, explores the nuclear and political situation in South Asia and beyond. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11771]

Chemical Terrorism and Blast Injuries

Fri, 9 Jul 2010 9:34:24 PDT

This series addresses the timely topics of Disaster Preparedness and Bioterrorism. This two-part presentation by Drs. Suchard and Schultz, faculty of UCI's Dept. of Emergency Medicine looks at chemical weapons used in terrorism and how to respond. The 2nd part looks at use of bombs in terrorism, how bombs cause blast injury, recognition and treatment of injuries. Series: "Tamkin Symposium at UC Irvine School of Medicine" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 11380]

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The Promises and Dangers of Cloning and Genetic Therapy

UC Irvine's Francisco Ayala explores the basic concepts of genetics and how will this knowledge affect the future uses of this knoweldge. Series: "COSMOS Discovery Lecture" [Science] [Show ID: 8876]

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His Holiness - The XIV Dalai Lama

Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:01:49 PDT

The Dalai Lama of Tibet dicusses ethical leadership for a new millennium to promote dialogue and cross-cultural understanding around the world. [Public Affairs] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8659]

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Health Policy and Economic Security with Senator Edward M. Kennedy

UC Irvine hosts Senator Edward M. Kennedy as the 2003-04 Peltason Lecturer. Kennedy has been one of the leading voices on education and health issues in America. During his senatorial career he has played a leading role in every major educational reform law passed by Congress, and he is one of the nation’s most active proponents of expanding access to health care. [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 8327]

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