Science

kristen stubbs

Robots in Education

Robotics is one of the most exciting fields today. One which is capable of changing almost every over field and even life as we know it. In this lecture by Dr. Kristen Stubbs, we learn how robots are enhancing the field of education.

david christian

Big History: A History of the Universe in 18 Minutes

Think it’s impossible to describe the complete history of the universe in under 18 minutes? Historian, David Christian, accepts your challenge. In this video, he takes you on a journey from the Big Bang to the Internet through the use of stunning illustrations.

llew keltner

The Roles of Bioethics in Industry

Llew Keltner, M.D., Ph.D. is the President and CEO of Light Sciences Oncology, Inc., a leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology company. He will speak about the critical roles that bioethics can play in industry, the tensions that might arise, and ways that these can be addressed.

anthony atala

Printing a human kidney with a 3D printer

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago..

guy consolmagno

Cosmology: Making Sense of the Universe

Our “cosmology” is the sum of our assumptions and deductions of how the universe behaves. With the advent of modern physics, the term has been appropriated by physicists and astronomers to represent a scientific description of the origin and nature of the physical universe.

alex filippenko

Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe

World-renowned astronomer and prize-winning professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Alex Filippenko, explores some of the mysteries of the universe at a special lecture at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History.

terry hazen

The Gulf Oil Spill: Where Did All the Oil Go?

Terry Hazen, head of the Ecology Department and Center for Environmental Biotechnology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, discusses the involvement of native marine microbes in the degradation of the toxins from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

Rod Ewing

Plutonium: Nuclear vs. Geological Solutions

Professor of Geological Sciences, University of Michigan, Rod Ewing talks about the future of nuclear energy and importantly and nuclear waste. He emphasizes that it is an issue that needs to be addressed sooner rather than later, and offers some possible solutions.

buiild a better brain

How To Build a Better Brain

Executive Vice President and Provost Mark S. Kamlet moderated a panel discussing CMU’s interdisciplinary brain research. The event highlighted some of the great things going on in brain, mind and learning sciences.

sidney altman rna

Entering the RNA World

Nobel Laureate Sidney Altman, Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at Yale University, gives a general description of the problem of the origin of life on Earth with some detail about RNA.

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