UCLA (Audio)

This documentary follows five medical students in their first and last year attending UCLA's School of Medicine, culminating in Match Day, when they discover where they will be doing their residency. The students reflect on their experiences and hopes for the future as doctors. The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA is a groundbreaking community of problem solvers, caregivers, innovators, and life-long learners with a noble mission: to heal humankind by delivering leading-edge research, education, patient care, and community engagement. [Health and Medicine] [Education] [Show ID: 38412]

The story of how CIRM-supported research conducted by UCLA's Don Kohn pioneered a total cure for SCID, also known as bubble-baby disease, and how he hopes to employ the same gene-therapy strategies to cure sickle-cell anemia. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 36479]

Social distancing does not mean social isolation. In just a short time, our lives have changed dramatically. The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has challenged us all in different ways to cope, adapt, and grow. To kick off this special series,”6 feet Apart,” UCLA Professor of Psychology and co-leader of the EngageWell Pod, Dr. Ted Robles, talks about how we can stay socially engaged and support each other while we practice social distancing. Series: "LiveWell" [Show ID: 35857]

Socio-economic equality and rights have historically been marginalized in the human rights system but remain a front of racial discrimination. Panelists will engage with this history, identify contemporary patterns, and reflect on the analytical benefit of combining TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) and CRT (Critical Race Theory). Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Show ID: 35630]

Panelists consider global and national displacement, rights and protection regimes, and the ways that race and political economy drive policy decisions and institutional and normative responses to migration and migrants. The discussion covers the criminalization and detention of immigrants and the impact of historical and social forces, and reflects on the analytical benefit of combining TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) and CRT (Critical Race Theory). Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Show ID: 35629]

Contemporary global and national political crises, many of which threaten the human rights of millions and even the international system itself, bring into sharp relief enduring colonial legacies of racial injustice and racial inequality all over the world. In this opening and framing discussion, panelists will interrogate the role of Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) in developing a transnational legal discourse on racial injustice and inequality, that accounts for the role of empire in producing and sustaining racial injustice and inequality. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Show ID: 35625]

Emergency law permits states to derogate from globally agreed upon norms of human rights. While some rights cannot be suppressed, states still use emergency law to justify policies that reproduce inherently racialized colonial logics, including within the anti-terrorism frame. Panelists reflect on the analytical benefit of combining TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) and CRT (Critical Race Theory) in scholarship on emergencies and crisis. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Show ID: 35627]

The keynote presentation of the Transnational Legal Discourse on Race and Empire Symposium features Aziz Rana whose research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development, with a particular focus on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding. Rana is a Professor of Law at Cornell Law School. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Show ID: 35628]

What are the origins of hearing? What is the evolutionary benefit of music? And why do we get chills when we listen to certain songs? This episode of UCLA's LiveWell podcast features UCLA neuropsychology expert Bob Bilder about the neuroscience behind music and its benefit for our health and wellness. Series: "LiveWell" [Show ID: 35623]

We live in a society that is obsessed with weight loss and dieting. Weight stigma and fat-shaming pervade our everyday lives– turning eating into something that is no longer an enjoyable act, but one of scrutiny and stress. Driven by a love for food and a true foodie at heart, UCLA Associate Professor in Psychology Janet Tomiyama believes that there are ways to get healthy without ever mentioning weight. She runs the Dieting, Stress and Health or DiSH Lab at UCLA that focuses on two main drivers of why we eat (or don’t eat): stress and weight stigma. Series: "LiveWell" [Show ID: 35624]

Dr. Jonathan Fielding shares his insights and perspective on some of the most pressing public health issues our world faces today. He served as the Public Health Director and Health Officer for Los Angeles County for 16 years where he directed major improvement in preparedness for major public health threats, increased the use of evidence based policies and programs and oversaw the Los Angeles County Health Survey, which provided essential information on the health, health risks and health attitudes of different socio-demographic subpopulations. Series: "LiveWell" [Show ID: 35626]

D'Artagnan Scorza wears many hats - from lecturer in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA to Founder and Executive Director of the Social Justice Learning Institute, a non-profit organization that works to help communities achieve health and educational equity. D'Artagnan talks about his life journey and the meaningful work that he is doing in his own backyard and across the country to empower people and communities to thrive. Series: "LiveWell" [Show ID: 35690]

UCLA history professor Brenda Stevenson studies slavery and the Antebellum South, some of our country’s most painful moments and eras. Because there is not much in the way of documentary evidence of the lives of women of color, enslaved women and women from the South, Stevenson must work as an investigator to discover their inner lives and experiences. This is often done through stories told through the age, some of which she shares in the UCLA Faculty Lecture. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Show ID: 35126]

This panel discussion features former elected officials, legal and political experts discussing the role of late UCLA professor Leo Estrada in redistricting in California. They say Estrada's work was integral ensuring people of color achieved equal representation in the legislature. Not only was his expertise and data collection essential in understanding the makeup of California communities, but it also proved invaluable in recruiting the best candidates to represent those communities. Series: "American Politics" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34994]

Quality data is paramount to ensuring equal representation. If we don’t know who is living in our communities, we can’t create and maintain the systems needed to care for and support those people. In this panel discussion, experts on data collection, Chicano studies and urban planning discuss the challenges of getting good data, and how to turn data into action. This panel was part of a day long symposium celebrating the life and legacy of Leo Estrada, who spent 40-years at the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. Series: "American Politics" [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 34993]

The history of the U.S. census is riddled with examples of efforts to exclude immigrants and minorities. Arturo Vargas, president and CEO of the NALEO Educational Fund discusses that history, and the ongoing fight to make sure everyone living in the country is counted fairly and accurately. Vargas focuses much of his talk on the controversial proposal to require undocumented immigrants to identify themselves, which he calls a scare tactic aimed at decreasing representation in Washington. He details other challenges ahead, and what must be done to overcome them. Series: "Immigration" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34954]

Higher education has long lacked diversity. This panel of academics, who crossed path with late UCLA professor Leo Estrada at various points in their lives, discusses the lessons learned from his unique form of mentorship. They explain how making it in academia can be especially difficult for people from underrepresented communities, and how Estradas methods could be used to help get more students from those communities through higher education. [Public Affairs] [Education] [Show ID: 34995]

For four decades, UCLA’s Stephanie Jamison has been somewhat defiantly seeking the stories of women among some of the oldest texts in the world. Jamison shares some of what she has unearthed, the names and stories of women we have likely never heard of before. Jamison’s expertise lies in Indo-Iranian, especially Sanskrit and middle Indo-Aryan languages with an emphasis on linguistics, literature and poetics, religion and law, mythology and ritual, and gender. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 34409]

This panel explores the relevance of race, citizenship, immigration status, and community context in explaining lethal violence and criminal case outcomes, both currently and historically. Drawing from a variety of data sources and employing a wide range of analytical approaches, the panel illuminates largely overlooked and underappreciated racially-contingent micro- and meso-level processes and their enduring consequences for Latinx defendants, Latinx victims, and Latinx communities. Moderator: Alicia Virani, UCLA School of Law. Panelists: Klara Stephens, University of Michigan Law School/ National Registry of Exonerations; Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Jeffrey Ulmer, Penn State; Ramiro Martinez, Northeastern University Series: "Immigration" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34539]

This panel explores how statewide direct democracy measures, including ballot initiatives, have propelled affirmative criminal justice reforms in jurisdictions with large Latinx populations. Panelists discuss the ways in which Latinx people were and were not meaningfully incorporated into the campaigns and subsequent implementation efforts for Florida’s Amendment 4, California’s Propositions 47 and 57, and a handful of drug referendums. This discussion focuses on lessons learned and highlight best practices as they relate to the ballot box and criminal justice reform. Ultimately, this discussion informs the capacity for meaningful reforms to integrate the needs of the Latinx community, including the potential for scale in other jurisdictions with large Latinx populations, like Arizona. Moderator: Sonja Diaz, UCLA Luskin School of Public Policy. Panelists: Tomas Robles, LUCHA; Juan Cartagena, LatinoJustice PRDLEF; Marisa Arrona, Californians for Safety and Justice. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34538]

This panel focuses on questions surrounding the influence of race and ethnicity on the imposition of capital punishment. The Supreme Court struck down unitary standardless capital punishment statutes in the early 1970s. Only a few years later the Court upheld two forms of bifurcated, more structured death penalty statutes relying in part on an assumption that the narrowing required by such statutes would eliminate the influence of racial bias. None of the cases considered the possibility of racial bias against any group other than African Americans. This panel examines the evidence that racial and ethnic bias continues to influence the imposition of the death penalty under modern statutes. Moderator: Devon Carbado, UCLA and Harry Pregerson, UCLA Schoolof Law; Sheri Lynn Johnson,Cornell Law School; Martin Urbina, Sul Ross State University; Catherine Grosso, Michigan State University College of Law. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34540]

Panel of explores how Latinx communities perceive the criminal justice system and provides a general overview of what we know and don't know about Latinx incarceration. The panel also explores the content and consequences of Latinx racialization (including the prevalence of negative racial stereotypes) and the various ways in which U.S. immigration law and policy punishes and criminalizes migrants. Moderator: Laura Gomez, UCLA School of Law. Panelists: Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, University of Delaware; Victoria Plaut, Berkeley Law; Celina Romano, Berkeley Law; Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA. Series: "Immigration" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34535]

UCLA Law professor emeritus Gerald López has litigated extensively as lead counsel in a wide variety of criminal and civil matters. In this talk, he captivates the crowd with reflections on his childhood in East Los Angeles in the 1950s, where he watched the criminal justice system target Latinx people — activity that, he noted, continues to this day. Series: "UCLA Law Review Symposium " [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34537]

This panel focuses on questions around policing in Latinx communities in order to shed light on the ways that intersecting legal regimes and policing practices affect those communities. The panel explores the heavy police presence in public schools that serve this community and considers the ways that interoperable information systems and data sharing practices are used. Finally, the panel examines the effects of policing practices at the intersection of immigration law and criminal law that disproportionately target the Latinx community. Moderator: Jennifer Chacón, UCLA School of Law. Panelists: Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law; Julia Mendoza, Stanford Law School; Ana Muñiz, UCI School of Social Ecology; Amada Armenta, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Series: "Immigration" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 34536]

This documentary produced by the UCLA Geography department explores new methods of climate modeling that allow researchers to predict the future climate of Tibet. [Science] [Show ID: 34462]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, stresses the important role of sighing in daily life. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 34343]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, shares an amusing thought on the acceptance of truth in the sciences. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 34342]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, discusses how and why humans breathe. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 34341]

Jack Feldman, a distinguished professor of neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, shares the series of remarkable revelations he has made about breathing and the brain. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 33948]

Women who fought for the right to vote were struggling for nothing less than access to full citizenship. Ellen DuBois, UCLA professor of history and gender studies, emphasized the larger vision women held in the struggle for women's suffrage. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Show ID: 33134]

Michael Green, neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA, has been fascinated with the human brain, behavior and mental illness since his undergraduate days. In particular, his research focuses on schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects about 1 percent of the population. In this UCLA Faculty Research Lecture, he describes how his lab uses discoveries in psychology and social neuroscience about normal brain functioning to inform his schizophrenia research. And now, Green and his colleagues are moving into new territory, studying the causes of social isolation among people who do not have schizophrenia. You’ll learn about the tools they use such as functional MRI, that measures and maps brain activity, and EEG, that detects electrical activity in the brain, and how they do research to answer questions about social isolation in the general public. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 32573]

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning. Bjork has been studying learning and memory for more than four decades. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 32828]

Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department of Psychology, shares insights from his work as a renowned expert on human learning. Bjork has been studying learning and memory for more than four decades. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Humanities] [Education] [Show ID: 32833]

John Agnew, UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has spent his scholarly career examining the politics of place. In this lecture he asks if there is such a thing as post-place politics given that our connections to our immediate communities is still paramount when it comes time for people to decide whom to elect, what government programs to support and how much to expect for positive impact in their lives. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 31916]

Animal development is directed by a genetic toolkit shared by all animals — from fruit flies to frogs to human beings — rather than different animals having different genetic toolkits. UCLA Professor of Biological Chemistry Edward De Robertis explains that the field of evolutionary development (or Evo-Devo) seeks to understand how so many beautiful animal forms evolved through the use of the original genetic toolkit of the last common ancestor of all animals, urbilateria, which existed at least 560 million years ago. Series: "UCLA Faculty Research Lectures" [Science] [Show ID: 31409]

Exploration of the Los Angeles drought and the effects of El Nino on the water supply in California. [Science] [Show ID: 31663]