Esteemed neuroscientist Dr. Pat Levitt shared his research on the impact of early experience on brain development and how we can more effectively advocate for policies and laws that help us invest in our children. His talk, “The Impact of Early Adversity on Brain and Child Development: Implications for Policy and Law,” was recorded on Oct. 20, 2009.

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Astronomers use large telescopes to study distant planets, stars and galaxies. Scientists pore over the data and images that arrive through these telescopes to learn as much as they can about distant objects and the workings and mysteries of space.

Because of technological improvements in deep-space observation over the past few decades, the images that astronomers have been working with have also proven to be stunningly beautiful.

Dr. Travis A. Rector, an assistant professor in the UAA Department of Physics and Astronomy, discusses these images in a unique type of show entitled “The Aesthetics of Astronomy.”

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Astrophysics and Astrophotography

Find the images that Dr. Rector discusses in this talk on his Web site under Deep Sky images.

Dr. Tyrone Hayes, an integrative biologist from UC Berkeley, delivered this lecture as the keynote speaker for the 2009 Undergraduate Research and Discovery Symposium.

In his keynote, Dr. Hayes shared his research focus on the effects of endocrine-disrupting pesticides on amphibian growth, development, reproduction and immune function, and how these studies predict effects in other wildlife and humans.

A tip to listeners, stay tuned during the last two minutes of the lecture, Prof. Hayes “spins a rhyme” as he puts it, with a bit of integrative biology performance poetry.

This podcast was recorded on April 14, 2009.

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University Honors College

UAA's Honors College home page

www.atrazinelovers.com

An informational and advocacy Web site maintained by Dr. Tyrone Hayes

UC Berkeley Office of Educational Development

Dr. Tyrone Hayes' philosophy of teaching statement

UAA's Office of Undergraduate Research

Research opportunities for undergraduate students

As a part of the Relevant Research Series, Dr. Jill Flanders Crosby, a UAA dance professor and researcher, offers this look at how certain dances and religious practices migrated from the EWE (pronouced EH-vay) people of Ghana, West Africa into the Arara religion practiced in some small towns in Cuba. Professor Crosby is choreographing a response to these dances that will be performed with a video backdrop later this spring in the New Dances 2009 event.

Professor Crosby is introduced here by Dr. James Liszka, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. This podcast was recorded on March 26, 2009.

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UAA Department of Theatre & Dance