Listen: Mentor TennisSee connects tennis to life skills for at-risk youth
Nashville inner-city youth are learning the lessons of tennis as well as life thanks to an after-school program founded by Vanderbilt University senior Jeff Berry. He is president of Mentor TennisSee, which brings at-risk children to the Brownlee O. Currey Jr. Tennis Center three times a week. In addition to learning how to play tennis, the youngsters receive free academic tutoring from Vanderbilt students. Mentor TennisSee also uses the First Serve Life Skills program as part of its instruction
Steven Chu: Life as Beautifully Engineered Systems
Steven Chu is a Nobel Laureate and Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL) This event took place on October 16, 2004 at UC Berkeley. Running Time: 1 hour, 18 minutes.
Richard Doll: his revolutionary life
Conrad Keating, biographer of Richard Doll, lectures on the life of the cancer epidemiologist and lifelong socialist who contributed much to our understanding of the effects of smoking and changed the way we regard smoking and public health.
Part 3: Student Life
Part 3 of the Oxford Campaign Video
Escape into life
Escape Into Life is a website that hosts artists profiles and an online art journal. The website is divided into the following categories: poetry, essays, reviews, interviews, artists and writers. The latter two have profiles of writers and artists, including biographical information and samples of their work. The essays, reviews and interviews cover a broad range of people and disciplines, from journalism to painting to illustration. The website is also divided into more specific categories (su
7.345 Vascular Development in Life, Disease and Cancer Medicine (MIT)
The growth of blood vessels, a process known as angiogenesis, is one of the earliest events in mammalian development and is regulated by a sensitive interplay of growth factors and other molecules. In this course, we will discuss the key molecular regulators of blood vessel development as well as the techniques and experimental systems that have been utilized by vascular biologists. We will also examine the success of several anti-angiogenic treatments that have been approved by the Food and Dru
Bringing a 2000-year-old painted warrior to life
A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
Life sciences: Evolution in snails, the perils of looking after snakes and scientists on television
In this podcast we meet a herpetologist, or snake expert, from Wales and discuss genetic coding in snakes and research developments. We also meet David Robinson, a biologist and Senior Lecturer at the OU, who has been involved with OU television programmes for many years, and chat about what the future for science programming might look like. Finally, we chat to Jenny Worthington, a project officer at the OU, about the fantastic evolution meglab project. The interviews are recorded by OU staff a
Science: from the lab to Second Life and across the world
We talk to Sue Stocklmayer from the Australian National University about the joys and pitfalls of international science communication; and to Rough Science's Dr Jonathan Hare about his research into Buckmeinsterfullerene. We also return to the SCHOME project (from Programme 5) and meet the students involved - in the real world! The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant, also from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science.
Toxicology, more about life on Mars and children's author Philip Ardagh
We meet children’s author Philip Ardagh for a chat; find out more about Mars and discovering life on Earth in some of the most unlikely places; and we catch up with an Open University graduateto learn about toxicology. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science.
Life on Mars, controlling disease and 3D printers
We discuss life on Mars with Open University scientists; getting into science and the future of disease control with epidemiologists at the Royal Society Summer Exhibition; and find out about incredible 3D printers. The interviews are recorded by OU staff and the programme is hosted by Dr Mike Bullivant from the OU/BBC television series Rough Science.
Episode 9 - Evolution: Life on Earth in 7 courses
In this episode, you, the listener, will gate crash the gala event of the century: Darwin’s 200th birthday party at Melbourne Museum. It’s a spectacular celebration of the evolution of life on earth called Evolution – the dinner.
You’ll love the menu; we get to eat our way up the evolutionary tree course by course. The menu starts at the Precambrian earth 4.5 billion years ago represented by arancini balls with crusty textures of proto earth over hot f
Tom Wesselmann's Still Life Number 30
Original Music by Anthony Guzzardo & Bianca Diorio Download here.
Sociology of Intellectual Life
Professor Steve Fuller talks about his new book - A Sociology of Academic Life.
