Conversation with GoPro Founder, Nick Woodman

28380UC San Diego Alumnus and GoPro Founder Nick Woodman turned to his wife Jill recently and asked, “Is this really happening?”

The occasion was Nick’s triumphant return to UC San Diego where he was interviewed along with Jill and former classmate Justin Wilkenfeld in front of a boisterous audience of students and GoPro fans.

Watch A Conversation with Nick Woodman and learn how Nick’s degree in Visual Arts along with his passion and perseverance led to the creation of the world’s fastest growing camera company.

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Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal

25957In 2006, when Rebecca Dresser was diagnosed with oral cancer, her life was thrown off-balance.

As a professor of law and biomedical ethics, she had been teaching and writing for years about the complex ethical, moral, and medical challenges of dealing with life-threatening diseases such as cancer. Yet she found herself personally unprepared for the experience.

Professor Dresser, author of “Malignant: Medical Ethicists Confront Cancer,” describes her own bout with cancer and how it changed her views about medical ethics. This is the last of The “Exploring Ethics” public lecture series of 2014 focusing on cancer, as seen through the lens of Siddhartha Mukherjee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, “The Emperor of All Maladies.”

Watch Rebecca Dresser in Ethicists Confront Cancer: When the Professional Becomes Personal.

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Eating Disorders Explained

27760How do we manage our eating behaviors? What processes in the body affect how we view our relationship with food?

Walter Kaye, PhD, explores the biological impulses that affect anorexia nervosa and bulimia as well as new brain imaging techniques to help treat and understand eating disorders.

Watch The Science of Dieting: Why Is It Difficult for Most People, but Not Those with Anorexia Nervosa? online now.

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Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock

28100The Romani, not to be confused with the Romanian nation or people, are a diasporic ethnicity more widely known as “gypsies.” Throughout the world they are variously known as Rom, Roma, Romane, Cigáni and Gitano, just to name a few.

In this presentation about the Romani and the Holocaust, Ian Hancock, professor of English and linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, and director of the Romani Studies program and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center, estimates that the Holocaust claimed anywhere between 500,000 and 1.5 million Romani lives. The Romani people refer to this tragedy as the Porrajmos, or “the Devouring.”

A Romani-born British citizen, activist, and scholar, Hancock has done more than anyone to raise awareness about the Romani people during World War II.

Watch this Library Channel presentation of Porrajmos: The Romani and the Holocaust with Ian Hancock – Holocaust Living History, a Library Channel presentation.

20 Years of NAFTA and Beyond – Mexico Moving Forward 2014

8120NAFTA’s impact on the last two decades and its effect on the future are featured prominently in this year’s UCSD-TV series, Mexico Moving Forward. Listen to business leaders, scholars, and social entrepreneurs provide diverse perspectives on the current economic challenges in Mexico, what can and is being done to address them, and how these lessons can be applied globally.

The daylong symposium covered a wide range of topics, from NAFTA’s economic impact, foreign investment potential, prospective ties to Asia, to arts and culture, including a surprise flash mob opera performance by the Opera Ambulante in Tijuana.

The symposium, hosted by the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS), features University of California President Janet Napolitano, UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla and IR/PS Dean Peter Cowhey, as well as experts from both sides of the border.

Tune in for one or all of the Mexico Moving Forward programs at http://www.ucsd.tv/mexico-moving-forward