A panel of distinguished scholars and journalists discussed the highlights of the October 2011 term, which concluded in June with the ruling on health care. The panelists are Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Prof. Jennifer Chacon of UCI Law, Prof. Robert Pushaw of Pepperdine University School of Law, Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal and PBS News Hour, and Jess Bravin of the Wall Street Journal. The panel will be moderated by Prof. Rick Hasen of UCI Law.

Dr. Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize winning author of God: A Biography and bestselling sequel Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God, was MacAurthur Fellow 2002-2007, and in 2008 joined UCI as Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies. A Senior Fellow in Religion and International Affairs of the Pacific Council, Jack observes that since tribalism and religious interests in the Sunni, Shia, and Kurds take precedence over any sense of nationalism, being "the Iraqis," withdrawal will need to account for these differences, the destabilization of U.S. invasion created in the Middle East, the importance of diplomatic relations with Iran, and how this affects "oil," the ultimate motive.

Currently a partner with the Litigation Department of Morgan Lewis in Washington, D.C., Fielding has spent his distinguished legal career in both the public and private sectors.

Before joining the firm, he served as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009. He also served as White House Counsel to President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1986, and worked in the Nixon White House as Deputy Counsel from 1972 to 1974, and as Associate Counsel from 1970 to 1972.

Scott Bollens is UCI Professor of Urban Planning and the Warmington Chair in Peace and International Cooperation. He studies the intersection of cities and nationalistic conflict and has interviewed more than 240 individuals in the cities of Beirut, Jerusalem, Belfast, Johannesburg, Nicosia, Sarajevo and Mostar (Bosnia), and Basque Country and Barcelona (Spain).

Charles Ogletree Jr. is considered one of the most tenacious and successful trial lawyers in the United States. He is the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law at Harvard University, and is a passionate advocate of a defendant's right to a fair trial within the American justice system.

In this inaugural lecture recorded on February 7, 2012 for the Center on Land, Environment, & Natural Resources (CLEANR) at UCI Law, Prof. Lazarus reflected on his experiences as Executive Director of the President's Commission to investigate the Gulf Oil Spill, focusing on the political challenges of running the Commission, the Commission's findings, and subsequent events and lessons related to the disaster.

Prof. Lazarus graduated from Harvard Law School in 1979, and he has a B.S. in Chemistry and a B.A. in economics from the University of Illinois, where he focused on environmental issues.

The theory of Epidemiological Transition argues that as a population develops, mortality due to infectious diseases decreases with a simultaneous rise in 'man-made' chronic diseases. This perspective has oversimplified the current reality in which prevalence of chronic diseases has been increasing in populations in whom infectious diseases have not been optimally controlled. For instance, diabetes has been increasing in areas with yet a high burden of tuberculosis. This is a concern given that uncontrolled diabetes leads to greater vulnerability to infections such as tuberculosis. Further, there has been growing evidence that infections may play a role in the progression of chronic diseases. Gut microbes, for example, have been implicated in the pathogenesis of metabolic syndrome. While the dual burden of infections and diabetes poses a challenge for public health, it also creates an opportunity for productive interdisciplinary collaboration, and novel discoveries.

This special evening with F. Sherwood Rowland featured a talk by Ralph J. Cicerone, President of the National Academy of Sciences and Chancellor Emeritus, UC Irvine, along with special remarks by current UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake, M.D.

Global migration has dramatically increased over the past decade and now numbers over 200 million transnational and over 1 billion total migrants globally. Demographics and economic interdependence will continue to drive global migration. Few studies have investigated occupational injury and illness rates among immigrant populations, but existing data indicate that higher rates of fatal and non-fatal injuries are common compared to native populations. This increase is in part due to immigrants working in higher risk occupations (e.g., agriculture, construction), but occupational morbidity and mortality is higher among immigrants than native-born workers within occupational categories. Precarious work status, exacerbated by migrants “in an irregular situation” is associated with increased occupational risk. Recent efforts to address migrant health in a new operational framework will be discussed.

Folkenflik’s stories are broadcast regularly on such NPR news segments as Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Talk of the Nation. He has provided insightful coverage of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. phone hacking scandal and edited Page One: Inside The New York Times & the Future of Journalism, which features essays by reporters and media experts on the state of American journalism.

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This lecture discusses some of the topics in college student success. Professor Russell demonstrates the work he is doing in his lab at Calit2, SHAPe Lab. Some of what is covered is studying balance, sensing and motion-capture tools for movement analysis, mobility therapy and rehabilitation, and important factors in college student health. The SHAPe lab is part of the eHealth Collaboratory: advances in information technology are creating revolutionary health care delivery options that can improve quality, reduce cost and provide health patient empowerment.

This lecture covers the current robotics development and uses at UC Irvine. Professor Krichmar's expansive career includes 15 years as a software engineer on projects ranging from the PATRIOT Missile System at the Raytheon Corporation to Air Traffic Control for the Federal Systems Division of IBM.

In this lecture you will hear from Professor Elizabeth Loftus, who will share with you her fascinating research on manufactured and false memories. She has also been involved in the trials of Ted Bundy, O. J. Simpson, the Hillside Stranglers, and the McMartin preschool trial workers. In 2002, Dr. Loftus was recognized as one of the 100 most influential researchers in psychology in the 20th century, and the highest ranked woman on the list.

Dr. Alyssa Brewer discusses her cutting edge research on neuroimaging of visual perception, visual deficits and neurological disorders. Dr. Brewer’s Laboratory of Visual Neuroscience uses functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study perceptual representations in human visual cortex, with a focus on the visual deficits in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.

• Erwin Chemerinsky, UCI Law
• John Eastman, Chapman University
• Dahlia Lithwick, Slate
• Laurie Levenson, Loyola Law School
• David Savage, Los Angeles Times

Panel Participants: Vijay Gurbaxani, director of the Center for Research on Information Technology & Organizations, UCI business school professor Dr. Zeev Kain, UCI anesthesiologist, eHealth Collaboratory participant Dr. Ira Lott, UCI pediatric neurologist, director of telemedicine program for UCI Health Sciences Robert McCray, CEO and president, Wireless Life Sciences Alliance David Reinkensmeyer, iMove Center director, UCI engineering professor, and Jeff Russell, SHAPe lab director, UCI dance-science professor. Panel moderated by Gerard von Hoffmann, partner, Knobbe Martens LLP.

This seminar will describe the evolution of genetics from an observational to a molecular science with growing applications to public health and preventative medicine. It will highlight key scientific, ethical, legal, and social issues arising from advances in genomics and will describe the role public health leaders play in addressing them.

More than 6 million people die each year in Third World countries from TB, Malaria, HIV/AIDS and acute lower-respiratory infections. Some of these cases are curable, many of them are treatable and almost all are preventable. But people die because they are poor and because they are poor they get sicker - they do not have access to drugs that could save their lives.

Global spending on prescription drugs is estimated to top $880 billion this year. The total average development cost of one biopharmaceutical drug exceeds $1 billion and the process takes about 10 years. Pharmaceutical companies remain one of the most profitable corporate entities. They spend 90% of their R&D budget on medical conditions responsible for 10% of the world's burden of disease. They are widely criticized for this 10/90 gap because their focus is on developing lifestyle drugs that can only be afforded by the West.

There are several public private partnerships that seek to develop novel drugs and provide access by momentarily putting healthcare for the poorest people in the world above corporate profits. While this may be a step in the right direction from an ethical perspective, business engagement in public health poses complex challenges. Infringement of intellectual property, lack of infrastructure, government bureaucracy and corruption are just some of the variables that need to be addressed in order to effectively execute ethically sound strategies from powerful producers to needy consumers.

The lecture will explore how changes in law and technology may create obstacles to keeping creative works available to audiences, both now and in the future, and how copyright law might respond to those obstacles.

Tony Reese is a leading scholar in the field of copyright and has published numerous articles on copyright law and digital copyright issues in a variety of U.S. and foreign law reviews and collections. He is a co-author of the casebooks Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines (with Paul Goldstein), Copyright (with Robert Gorman & Jane Ginsburg), and Internet Commerce (with Margaret Jane Radin & John Rothchild). He joined the faculty of UC Irvine School of Law in July 2009 after 10 years of teaching at University of Texas at Austin, School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Stanford and New York University, and has taught copyright law in several international programs.

Chancellor's Chairs are endowed positions awarded to a very small number of UCI professors across the campus who demonstrate unusual academic merit.

This presentation will focus on three molecular epidemiological studies on common viral infectious diseases: Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, Influenza, and Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The first, a molecular epidemiological study of HIV in Macao, a city in southern China, showed multiple introductions and high genetic diversity of HIV strains for an extended period of time. The second study, involving phylogenetic analysis of H1N1/09 influenza sequences collected from three cities (Huston, Milwaukee, and New York City) in the US suggested different epidemiological patterns for the spring and fall waves of the H1N1/09 influenza pandemic. For the last study we found that HCV 6a strains had spread rapidly around 1980s in southern China using phylogenetic analysis with epidemiological data.

Dr. Yi Tan (Tany) is a post-doctoral fellow at the NIH Fogarty International Center for Advanced Study in the Health Sciences. She works on the phylogenetic analysis of influenza virus genetic sequences, hoping to trace the transmission patterns of epidemics and gain a better understanding of viral evolution. Dr. Tan earned her doctorate at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Ph.D. in 2008. She pursues collaborative research on the molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, including HIV/HCV, influenza, HPV, and other viruses. Recently Dr. Tan helped implement new research collaborations between the Fogarty International Center and research Institutes in Southern China to investigate seasonal influenza epidemics and the impact of the 2009 A/H1N1 pandemic in subtropical regions.

As we observe increased polarization in the American polity and unproductive adversarial and contested behavior in the legal profession, media, education, and cultural production generally (with an overly simplistic “debate” mode of argument), scholarship from law and elsewhere (empirical, normative and prescriptive) suggests that there might be better ways for human beings to behave to solve human, social, and legal problems.

Professor Menkel-Meadow, one of the founders of the dispute resolution field, will explore recent knowledge, insights and concerns that illuminate how dispute resolution theories and practices might inform our efforts at democratic deliberation, both nationally and internationally. Among many examples, this lecture will explore what went wrong when some of these methods were “scaled up” in the debates about health care policy, as well as what can go “right” with different forms of process.

Chancellor's Chairs are endowed positions awarded to a very small number of UCI professors across the campus who demonstrate unusual academic merit.

Recent systematic reviews have noted a lack of evidence that screening for intimate partner violence does more good than harm. Dr. Houry will talk about her study using a computer kiosk for identification and referral of intimate partner violence in the ED setting resulted in safety behaviors or contact with referrals. Her team conducted a prospective, observational study in which a convenience sample of male and female ED patients triaged to the waiting room who screened positive (on a computer kiosk-based questionnaire) for intimate partner violence were provided with resources and information and invited to participate in a series of follow-up interviews. At 1-week and 3-month follow-up visits, they assessed intimate partner violence, safety issues, and use of resources. In addition, to obtain an objective measure of safety, we assessed the number of violence-related 911 calls to participant addresses within a call district 6 months before and 6 months after the index ED visit. The team found there were no identified adverse events related to screening, and many had contacted community resources.

Over the last decade, satellite observations of Earth's water cycle, in particular, those from NASA's GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) mission, have provided an unprecedented view of recent changes in freshwater availability. In particular, the human fingerprint of water management practices such as reservoir storage and groundwater use is abundantly clear, and raises many important issues for climate, water, food and economic security. Moreover, the worldwide depletion of groundwater aquifers and their transboundary nature points to the great potential heightened conflict in the very near future. In this seminar I will review the basics of how the GRACE mission observes world water resources, what new information the mission has provided since its launch in 2002, and what the implications are for the future of water availability. Several hotspots for water stress, including implications for regional security and conflict, will be highlighted.

There is a growing body of academic, applied and journalistic research that points to a strong relationship between natural resources and conflict in the developing world. Whether attributed to a 'resource curse' in the case of high value, extractable natural resources, or 'scarcity and competition' over water, land, fisheries and other resources, it is clear that natural resources and the environment, because of their importance to human survival, are an important contributor to and victim of violent conflict.

While there are many strategies for analyzing and transforming these sorts of conflicts in the short and medium term, such as negotiations and settlements over specific resources, external interventions that award control over resources, international boycotts of resources funding conflict, etc., sustainability and sustainable development have emerged as a potential key aspect of long term strategies. This talk will analyze, at a very practical level as well as in theory, where this has been and could be successful and where it will likely fall short.

For decades Costa Rica has enjoyed a "Green Republic" and exemplary democracy reputation with recognitions as the happiest and most sustainable country in the world. This has marked it as an exceptional nation in Mesoamerica, attracting substantial attention from the scientific community and high visitation rates from tourists. Effectively, this reputation is the result of one of the most ambitious attempts to establish a bioregional conservation area system, a progressive approach to environmental regulation and the social results of the welfare state, which prevailed as a development model between 1948 and the early 1980s. This welfare state includes one of the most reputable social medicine systems in our hemisphere.

Yet, during the last 30 years it becomes obvious that the efforts of conservation have been focused mostly in rural areas, while poorly planned economic growth concentrates mostly in urban areas in the center of Costa Rica. Further, large-scale foreign investments are favored by government authorities to promote development in rural areas that are close to protected areas. This leads to two realities: One where environmental conflicts abound and development is restricted leading to higher migration rates and lower social and health indicators and another one which has significant urban environmental problems aside higher economic and social/health indicators.

Will Costa Rica live up to its enlightened reputation? This question opens very interesting venues of research and work for academics and students interested in areas such as Public Health, Political Ecology, Environmental Sociology, Ecological Economics and Latin American Studies. The presentation will critically describe four case studies that illustrate the diagnosis in the South Pacific, Central Pacific, Central Valley and Northeastern Costa Rica which involve Neotropica Foundation's work, hoping to attract interest for further involvement of University of California, Irvine through the creation of course and research opportunities.

This Chancellor's Chair Lecture addresses the expressive legalism of the American Revolution and explains how it turned into a legal culture that ceased to stand in imaginative solidarity with “the people themselves.” Republican law lived in a contradiction between a revolutionary people imbued with law as imaginative possibility, and a constituted polity whose law defined the limits of imaginative political action. As the republic matured, the tension between its two formative revolutions became ever more apparent in its legal order. Eventually, those tensions would contribute their mite to the great unraveling that would end in another civil war.

Christopher Tomlins joined the faculty of UC Irvine’s Law School in July 2009. He came from Chicago, where for 17 years he was a Research Professor on the faculty of the American Bar Foundation. Tomlins has taught at universities across the globe and has degrees from Oxford University and the University of Sussex, and a PhD in History from The Johns Hopkins University. He is a legal historian with wide-ranging interests, and has written or edited six books, the most recent of which is Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580-1865, published in 2010.

Chancellor's Chairs are endowed positions awarded to a very small number of UCI professors across the campus who demonstrate unusual academic merit.

Families and health, businesses and educational systems, fresh water and clean air- there are a lot of things in our world that we would like to last. They are the material underpinnings of freedom, dignity, comfort and stability. We have come to realize over the last few decades, however, that some of the things we value and depend upon are moving along trajectories that are not sustainable. The costs are mounting and we can imagine a point in the not too distant future when some of these things run out of gas, falter, perhaps collapse. We have also come to realize that many of the things we value are deeply interconnected. Failure in one area can ripple across many other domains, always complicating matters, and, at times, generating complex disasters. These realizations, rooted in scientific enquiry and local knowledge, have generated one of the defining questions of our age: How do we design, promote, manage and measure the sustainability of different things, at different scales and in different contexts? The advanced state of many alarming trends and the complexity involved in transforming vast, interconnected processes can seem inexorably to lead to a simple answer: we can’t. But is this really the best answer? We have unprecedented knowledge and tools that confer unprecedented power. Indeed, we often hear that solutions to many of our most daunting problems exist, but that we lack the political will to implement them. Which suggests we have something important that needs to be introduced, or reintroduced, into politics. Because in a democracy political will, the will to tackle new challenges, is the fruit of political concern and engagement. Politics here and across the world could be-and should be-the realm where we explore the challenging questions of our era from many perspectives, mobilize support for possible solutions, experiment with answers, share resources and lessons learned, and fairly and openly assess the effects of our decisions. Politics at its best allows us to do all this in a context imbued with powerful notions of fairness, dignity, and freedom. A politics of sustainability is not only possible, it is in some sense fundamental. Because in its most elemental form politics is about sustainability-about defining the life we want to lead together, and the conditions under which such life can endure and flourish.

The elevator pitch is the tip of your business spear, and the sharpest spear breaks through the most effectively in conveying the problem and the solutions your company can provide. In a society of 140 characters or less, how do you capture attention meaningfully and authentically? Chris Van Dusen, writer and speaker for entrepreneurs and startups, will help you identify and formulate the most succinct and relevant elevator pitch for your business. Chris Van Dusen is a tech enthusiast, remote-efficiency specialist and entrepreneur. He is the president of i-FFICIENCY, a consultancy he co-founded to help small businesses and startups leverage new technology in the sales process. Chris is also director of business development and new media for Rief Media, a full service marketing and communications firm. He contributes as a writer for Techzulu and other publications and speaks regularly on technology, new media and remote efficiency for business professionals.

Philip Schmidt discusses the Peer-to-Peer University, committed to creating high-quality, low-cost, lifelong learning leveraging the Internet.

RESPONDENTS Bill Maurer, Department of Anthropology, UCI Gary Matkin, Dean, Continuing Education, UCI

Philipp Schmidt is Director and co-founder of the Peer 2 Peer University, the original free and open online university and based in Cape Town. He is a board member of the OpenCourseWare Consortium, and holds a Shuttleworth Foundation fellowship. He has implemented OpenCourseWare projects at the University of the Western Cape and the United Nations University MERIT. He is an open education activist and researcher. He is active in creating collaborative resources, holding a position at the University of the Western Cape where he also runs projects in the area of open education; and he works with the United Nations University MERIT involving research on Wikipedia as part of the Collaborative Creativity Group. He collaborates with the Mozilla Education team, and is involved in the MacArthur Foundation project to create a badging system for community based knowledge accreditation.

"UCI Ghana Project 2010-2011: Collaborative Conversations on the Continent”

Thursday, February 17, 2011

The event featured nterim reports by faculty and graduate student participants of “Collaborative Conversations on the Continent,” UCI’s ongoing effort to establish a collaborative relationship in dance, music, history, political science, and computer science with the University of Ghana-Legon and the Ghana Dance Ensemble.  The project's goal is to foster teaching and research on topics relating to Africa and the African Diaspora and further the University’s vision of a global village by encouraging intellectually embodied exchanges beyond formal classroom boundaries. UCI professors Jennifer Fisher (dance) and Jessica Millward (history), and MFA students Joe Knox (music) and Shannon Cuykendall (dance), reported on work they conducted in Ghana last August and September, and their subsequent research and collaborations in dance and music immersion and embodiment, diaspora relationships (including experiences at the Elmina and Cape Coast slave fortresses), relationships with Ghanaian cultural institutions, and outreach with the Noyam Institute for dance in Ghana.

The center is particularly pleased to present these discussions in the wake of the just-completed visit to UCI by professor Oh! Nii Sowah and student guests from the University of Ghana-Legon.

Reports and discussion were moderated by UCI-Ghana Project member Cecelia Lynch (political science and CGPACS).

This event is sponsored by the UCI Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS), Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity.

Like the economic crises in Korea in 1997 and Argentina in 2001, U.S. and European responses to the 2008-2011 financial crises are less about what particular strategy is most likely to succeed or who specifically will be bailed out, than they are about the capacity of national governments to overhaul their economies and restore confidence in the global markets. Whether adopting neo-Keynesian, monetarist, or neo-liberal reforms or whether rescuing Wall Street or auto makers, state capacity is essential. Enhanced capacity increases a nation-state's ability to manage the market and has a significant positive effect on the economy by decreasing uncertainty; thus enhancing consumer and investor confidence. Low levels of state capacity compound market uncertainty with political uncertainty. This weakens bargaining strength and undermines confidence in both political leadership and the economy. Understanding how the power of, and distribution of power between, economic and political elites affects the capacity of national governments to manage markets effectively (whether this involves negotiating with labor unions, entrenched corporate and financial groups, domestic and international investors, foreign governments, or international financial institutions), enables us to predict recurring patterns of political exuberance, economic exuberance, economic policy inertia, and credible economic policy reform. These patterns of behavior help to explain the evolution of national economic policies that triggered economic crises in Asia and Latin America a decade ago and the United States and Europe today. They have also shaped national responses to these crises and, as a consequence, confidence in national and global economies.

Sherry is also the founding partner of social media consultancy, INCULINK, and has been featured in Social Media Today and quoted in Read Write Web. She has also served as an assistant instructor in Marketing on the Internet at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business’ fully-employed MBA program.

Currently, Sherry serves as a marketing board member for Girls Incorporated of Orange County, in addition to serving as PR/Communications and Marketing Chair for its auxiliary group Women for Girls. She has previously served on the marketing committees for IEEE Computing Society and California Concert Artists.

Sherry is a graduate of the University of California, Davis and has a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of California, Irvine.

This presentation for the UCI Events Council was recorded on March 2, 2011.

Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access it. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy depend on it - yet its adequacy and safety engender conflict. This conflict is likely to intensify as threats to freshwater abundance and quality, including climate change, urbanization, new forms of pollution, and privatization of control, continue to grow. Can we manage freshwater sensibly, and with proper regard for the welfare of future generations and other species? Must the cost of potable water become prohibitively expensive for the poor, especially when supplies are privatized? Do technological innovations expand supply or do they carry hidden risks? This talk shows how control of freshwater operates at different levels, from individual watersheds near cities to large river basins whose water - when diverted - is contested by entire countries. Nations can work together to embrace multiple water needs while also establishing fair, consistent criteria to promote available supply with less pollution through the exercise of soft power - the ability to advance reform through convincing others to emulate certain values, policies, and cultural attitudes that are embedded in certain prescribed measures such as local sustainability, adaptation to climate change, and the embracing of decentralized, participatory governance.

The seminar analyzes the past, present and future management for pollutant reduction along international borders. Attention towards transboundary waters is necessary as environmental problems have increased in prevalence around the world as the shared waterways straddling boundaries are vulnerable and not infinitely bountiful and resilient. Transboundary settings offer interdependencies, opportunities and challenges to match management on the same scale as the natural physical connectedness of water flow across borders. This seminar investigates the interaction between sovereign countries in North America over shared waterways in the U.S.-Canada and U.S.-Mexico borders. These countries present insightful steps for addressing polluted water at a time when the United Nations has designated 2010, Clean Water for a Healthy World where 2.2 million people die of contaminated water per year (United Nations, 2010). Asymmetry between the countries in terms of costs, damages, and emissions influences the incentives to solve the environmental pollution problem in a sustainable way.

“Speaking Out on Egypt” with UCI anthropologists Julia Elyachar | Christine Hegel-Cantarella | Selim Shahine and with UCI Professor of History Mark Le Vine.

Moderated by Cecelia Lynch, political science professor and CGPACS director and Karen Leonard, anthropology professor and acting department chair.

Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:00-3:30 p.m. Social Behavioral and Sciences Gateway (SBSG), Room 1517

Mark LeVine, recently returned from Cairo's Tashir Square, provides an eyewitness account to the recent upheaval.

Julia Elyachar is an assistant professor in UCI’s Department of Anthropology with a research specialty in the social, cultural, and political economy of urban Egypt. Her book, Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo, was a co-winner of the first book prize of the American Ethnological Association in 2007. She has published articles on Egypt in American Ethnologist, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Public Culture, and other journals in the United States and Europe.

Christine Hegel-Cantarella is an assistant research specialist in the Department of Anthropology and the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at UCI. Her research focuses on contracting, litigation, and court reform in contemporary Egypt, with a particular focus on Port Said. Current publications include an article "Kin-to-Be: Betrothal, Legal Documents, and Reconfiguring Relational Obligations in Egypt" which appeared in the journal Law, Culture and the Humanities, and a chapter in the edited volume Islam: Women, Divorce and Marriage in the Middle East.

Selim H. Shahine is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Egyptian elites. He conducted ethnographic fieldwork among members of Egypt's former royal family who were deposed during the military coup d’état of 1952 that put the currently embattled regime in power. Shahine received his Ph.D. in social science from UCI in 2006 and is currently a lecturer in the Department of Anthropology.

Brant Cooper has 20 years of experience in the high tech industry. He has participated in several startup ventures in a variety of roles, including IT, marketing and business development. He recently co-authored a book, The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany, and he blogs at Market by the Numbers.

Patrick Vlaskovits is an entrepreneur and author who founded two startup companies. He has bachelor and master's degrees from UC Santa Barbara, has lived and worked in Budapest, Hungary for a time, and has spearheaded multiple technology initiatives. He is the co-author of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany and is a co-organizer of the Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle. ]]>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 05:14:46 GMThttp://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=445Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:07:12 GMThttp://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=444Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:09:59 GMThttp://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=441Chair Investiture of Catherine Fisk, recorded February 8, 2011. Introductions by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Chancellor Michael Drake.

Innovative firms and employees have long struggled over allocation and control of intellectual property rights and over the allocation of credit for creating work. Where creation is collaborative but labor markets value individual creativity, the legal challenges in balancing individual and collective attribution are considerable and the stakes are high.

Hollywood guilds, which are unique in American letters in having a worker-controlled process for deciding the meaning of authorship and for compensating creative workers based on guild credit determinations, offer important insights on a possible role for labor unions in the knowledge economy.

Catherine Fisk teaches and writes on the law of the workplace, legal history, civil rights, and the legal profession. She is the author of dozens of articles and three books, including the prize-winning Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (University of North Carolina Press, 2009).

Chancellor's Chairs are endowed positions awarded to a very small number of UCI professors across the campus who demonstrate unusual academic merit.

There is growing consensus that environmental, social, and economic sustainability are not possible given current trends and that understanding human interactions with the environment is a key aspect of ameliorating many of these issues. Psychology, as the science of human behavior, is in a prime position to assist with this task. Human interactions with sustainability include human drivers of un-sustainability (e.g. over-use of limited resources), human consequences of instability (e.g. natural and technological disasters), and human responses to a changing environment (e.g. mitigation and adaptation). Although progress is being made in the natural and physical sciences towards technological solutions and in political circles towards more sustainable policies, an understanding of individuals is vital for these new technologies to be adopted and policies supported. This talk will include a discussion of current and pressing issues in the psychology of sustainability and share recent insights in areas such as social norms, risk perception, message framing, and positive psychology that highlight some of the ways that psychology is contributing to these issues.

Panelists:

Gary Motsek, Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

Anne-Marie Buzatu, Privatisation of Security Programme Coordinator, Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, Geneva

Chris Sanderson, Director, Government Support, Control Risks, London

Tara Lee, Partner, DLA Piper, Washington, DC

Thursday, January 27, 2011 3:30-5:00 p.m. Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

Environmental policymakers rely on a prodigious amount of knowledge from a wide variety of sources. Sometimes available knowledge is technically appropriate and covers the broad range of considerations that policymakers ought to take into account, yet it is easy to identify serious limitations in the generation, transmission, and use of relevant knowledge. Some forms and sources of knowledge are inappropriately privileged over others, narrowing the range of considerations that policymakers ought to take into account, such as practical knowledge and the expression of public preferences. The quest for more knowledge may rationalize shortsighted delays in taking necessary actions. By looking at how these three processes are exposed to both technical limitations and contestation, we can learn why and how knowledge is used and abused in the environmental policy process. The views that more knowledge resolves policy disputes, obviating the need for politics, and that "ugly politics" undermines the contributions of knowledge to environmental policymaking, neglect the crucial role that politics, as contestation over societal goals, has to play. The rejection of the inevitability of politics in the knowledge-policy relationship drives the politics underground, making it more difficult to see where value positions are masquerading as purely technical. Based on this diagnosis, many recommendations for improving the knowledge processes can be devised.

This presentation is made possible by the UC Irvine Framework Program in Global Health, funded by the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health (http://publichealth.uci.edu/gh_docs/index).

Abstract

Every 30 seconds, a child in Africa dies from malaria, a parasitic infection initiated by the bite of a mosquito. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), up to 300 million cases of malaria occur worldwide, resulting in approximately 1 million premature deaths, mostly of children under the age of 5 years in sub- Saharan Africa. But the geography of malaria burden extends to Asia and South America. Rapid population movement, environmental changes, and inability to deploy effective prevention strategies threaten to increase the range and severity of the disease. Target 6C of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG) aims to halt or begin to reverse the incidence of malaria by the year 2015. Is this an achievable goal? There are many tools in the scientific box, but great uncertainty on how to deploy them.

There is Word document to permit you to carry out the exercise here. http://cast.nacs.uci.edu/ocw/collections/public_health/2010_UCI_Exercise_Objective.doc.

Biography

Dr. Mark Q. Benedict is a consultant to the Gates Foundation project on the application of transgenic mosquitoes for malaria control through induced sterility of disease vectors. He was a Research Medical Entomologist at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria where he managed the mosquito sterile insect technique development program and field activities in Sudan and Reunion Island. For more than ten years, he worked at the CDC’s MR4 facility (Malaria Research and Reference Agent Center), and as a MacArthur Foundation Vector-Biology Network-sponsored fellow.

This series is designed to introduce legal professionals to new research in the social sciences that is relevant to issues that arise in criminal trials and the law of evidence.

"Badly Fragmented: When Courts and Science Clash"

A Panel Discussion Featuring:

Jennifer Mnookin, Professor, UCLA Law, Henry Weinstein, Professor, UCI Law, Simon Cole, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI, and William Thompson, Criminology, Law and Society, UCI

Recorded on Tuesday, October 19, 2010.

Connie Rice, an outspoken litigator and co-founder of the public policy and legal action group Advancement Project, has very clear views on equal rights and our democracy. She has spent her career fighting for social justice, urban peace, equal opportunity and upward mobility for the poor and disadvantaged, or as Rice and her colleagues call them, "those left behind in America."

In the public imagination, the Pacific Northwest region of the U.S. is an enclave of pristine environmental situations. This reputation has also attracted major environmental risks. The state of Washington hosts nearly 60 superfund priority sites under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act. These sites include, for example, Hanford, a 586-square-mile site created in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project (U.S. effort to develop the atomic bomb). According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, "the operations at Hanford created one of the largest and most complex cleanup projects in the U.S. Weapons production resulted in more than 43 million cubic yards of radioactive waste, and over 130 million cubic yards of contaminated soil and debris. Approximately 475 billion gallons of contaminated water was discharged to the soil. Some of the contaminants have made it to groundwater under the site. Over 80 square miles of groundwater is contaminated to levels above groundwater protection standards." The innovative partnership between the Department of Ecology and the Division of Environmental Health in the state of Washington is now recognized as an exemplary model for how best to integrate solutions to large-scale ecological challenges and local human health problems. Educating the public through intense community outreach efforts is central to the integrated model, and will be the main subject of this presentation.

Beth Andrews, M.A., is the GATE Coordinator for the Irvine Unified School District and is the Orange County Educator Representative for California Association for the Gifted. She has worked with gifted learners for 26 years and has served educators of gifted learners as a mentor teacher, GATE consultant, coordinator, author of curriculum, and teacher.

Diane Boothe, D.P.A, is Dean of the College of Education and Professor of Curriculum Instruction and Foundational Studies at Boise State University. She has an extensive record of scholarly activities in education including an article on diversity in the Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent.

Kim Dodds, M.A., has worked with gifted students for over a decade. Currently, she coordinates professional development opportunities for teachers of the gifted in her district and is working toward a doctorate in Teacher Education from USC.

Katie Hickox, M.A., has worked with K-12 gifted students for twelve years. In addition to her role as an Advanced Placement literature teacher, she teaches at UC Irvine Extension and presents on gifted education topics at professional conferences.

David Palmer, Ph.D., is an educational psychologist specializing in GATE testing, IQ testing for educational planning, and learning disability assessment and consultation. He also directs the Palmer Learning Center in Orange County, California.

Katie Hickox, M.A., has worked with K-12 gifted students for twelve years. In addition to her role as an Advanced Placement literature teacher, she teaches at UC Irvine Extension and presents on gifted education topics at professional conferences.

Kathy Apps, M.E., Wendy Hayes Ebright, M.S., and Sandi Ortiz Ishii, M.A., are all GATE program coordinators representing Santa Ana Unified School District, Long Beach Unified School District, and Garden Grove Unified School District. This panel brings years of knowledge and experience in the area of gifted education.

B. Teri Burns serves as Director for Legislative Advocacy for School Innovations & Advocacy, coordinating activities at the state capitol on behalf of the California Association for the Gifted (CAG). Most recently, Teri served as Deputy Superintendent for Government Affairs at the California Department of Education, overseeing legislative and budget negotiations regarding education at the state and federal levels.

Judith Roseberry, M.A., currently serves as the Treasurer of the California Association for the Gifted and as a consultant to state departments and school districts around the United States. She also leads a number of interaction groups for parents of the gifted.

Dr. Cahalan was recently elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

• One-on-one interviews with UC Irvine faculty entrepreneurs who will share their experiences and advice on starting companies and working with industry.
• The UC Irvine Office of Technology Alliances offers programs explaining the technology transfer process including invention disclosure, patenting and licensing. There are also joint presentations with the Office of Research on conflict of interest, material transfer agreements and industry-sponsored research.
• Guest speakers are also invited from business incubators, OCTANe and venture capitalists.
• This program is managed by the OCTANE@UCI Office - Program Director, Tanya Zabalegui.

Thursday, April 29, 2010

This lecture offers the UCI and local community an opportunity to hear expert political science perspectives on the up-coming California primary and gubernatorial race. “Changing Perceptions, Making Connections: UCI Political Scientists Offer Perspectives on California Politics” with UCI political scientists: Matthew Beckmann, Louis DeSipio, Mark Petracca, Tony Smith, and Carole Uhlaner

Richard A. Matthew - Associate Professor, Departments of Planning, Policy & Design and Political Science and Director, Center for Unconventional Security Affairs.

A Department of Sociology Talk from the Population, Society and Inequality Series, delivered by Professor John Hipp, Department of Criminology, Law & Society on May 25, 2010.

“Asia's Rise and Global Governance”

with Miles Kahler, UC San Diego, recorded May 27, 2010

Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). From 2001 to 2005, Kahler served as interim director and founding director of the Institute for International, Comparative, and Area Studies (IICAS) at UCSD. He has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (2007-2008) and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York (1994-1996). He is currently a principal consultant in the Asian Development Bank project, Institutions for Regionalism in Asia and the Pacific.

Dr. America Bracho is the Executive Director of Latino Health Access, a center for health promotion and disease prevention in Santa Ana, California.

Alan C. Swedlund is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

A Public Health Seminar Delivered By Alonza Cruse, Director, Los Angeles District Office of the United States Food and Drug Administration on Monday, January 11, 2009.

A lecture delivered by UCI Professor Soroosh Sorooshian on February 20, 2008. Professor Sorooshian, Director of the Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing at the University of California, Irvine is both Distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Distinguished Professor of Earth System Science. Among the world's top experts on drought, he has been advisor to the World Meteorological Organization and in 2005 received the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal for "providing scientific leadership for global water cycle research and assuring that NASA science is well integrated into international programs." His research focuses on surface hydrology, primarily in the area of rainfall-runoff modeling.

A lecture delivered by UCI Professor James Bullock on February 11, 2009. James Bullock, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine, is part of a team of scientists who believe they have discovered the minimum mass for galaxies in the universe -- 10 million times the mass of the sun. This mass could be the smallest known "building block" of the mysterious, invisible substance called dark matter. Stars that form within these building blocks clump together and turn into galaxies. Dark matter governs the growth of structure in the universe. Without it, galaxies like our own Milky Way would not exist. Dark matter's gravity attracts normal matter and causes galaxies to form small galaxies and to merge to create larger galaxies.

A Public Health Seminar Delivered By Dr. Mark Horton, Director of California Department of Public Health, on January 25, 2010.

Peter Navarro, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, is the author of the best seller, If It's Raining in Brazil, Buy Starbucks and The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage. His newsletter, "Big Picture Investor," appears weekly on his website. His 2006 book, The Coming China Wars, his topic for this lecture, presents a conceptual framework by which to understand the broad scope of Chinese mercantilist practices and the eight major drivers of the "China Price" that gives the Chinese competitive advantage in world markets. Dr. Navarro was recently called to testify on this topic before the House Ways and Means Committee.

A lecture delivered by UCI Law School Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on February 11, 2010 as part of the Campus Conversations Series sponsored by UCI’s Office of Equal Opportunity & Diversity. Dean Chemerinsky, author of four books, Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies, Constitutional Law and Interpreting the Constitution, was named by Legal Affairs as one of "the top 20 legal thinkers in America." He has frequently argued appellate cases before the United States Supreme Court and the United States Courts of Appeals; and he has testified many times before congressional and state legislative committees. He regularly serves as a commentator on legal issues for national and local media. ]]>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:43:22 GMThttp://ocw.uci.edu/lectures/lecture.aspx?id=147"Computational Protein Design: Designing Enzymes that Really Work!," recorded lecture on Thursday, January 21, 2010

Steve Mayo, Ph.D., is the Bren Professor of Biology and Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology

An International Studies Public Forum at UC Irvine on Thursday, February 4, 2010 with with Michael J. Tierney, College of William and Mary. Michael J. Tierney is the Hylton Associate Professor of Government and the Director of the International Relations Program at the College of William and Mary. He received his B.A. in government from William and Mary in 1987 and Ph.D. from U.C. San Diego in 2003.

Professor Tierney’s research and teaching interests focus on international organizations, international relations theory, political economy, and development. Tierney has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Hewlett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the Gates Foundation. He has published articles in journals such as Environment, Foreign Policy, Gender and Politics, Journal of International Relations and Development, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, Law and Contemporary Problems, and Review of International Political Economy. He has co-authored or edited two books: Delegation and Agency in International Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2006; and Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance, Oxford University Press, 2008. He is currently working on two book length projects. The first employs the PLAID dataset to explore the politics of multilateral development assistance. The second explores the relationships between teaching, research, and policy in the field of international relations.

Ahmed Ibrahim, MPH Biosafety Division Environmental Health and Safety University of California, Irvine

The past few years have seen an incredible explosion of new (or revival of old) fast and effective algorithms for various imaging and information science applications. These include: nonlocal means, compressive sensing, graph cuts, Bregman iteration, as well as relatively old favorites such as the level set method and PDE based image restoration. I'll give my view of where we are, hopefully giving credit to all the people involved.

This lecture will provide a general introduction to some of the ways that modern theoretical and computational chemistry are contributing to the discovery of new pharmaceuticals, with special emphasis on drugs for infectious diseases. The basic sciences and computing technologies involved have advanced to the point that physics-based simulations of drug targets are now yielding truly valuable suggestions for new compounds. Images and animations related to this work can be found at the website http://mccammon.ucsd.edu/.

J. Andrew McCammon is the Joseph E. Mayer Chair Professor of Theoretical Chemistry and Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology at UC San Diego, and is an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Political Rhetoric or Policy Reality? Tracking Trends in Environment, Peace, and Security: Over the past 25 plus years, the understanding of environment and security links has evolved to reflect changing threat and opportunity scenarios. Today, "environmental security" has become a popular phrase used to encompass everything from oil exploration to pollution controls to corn subsidies. While environmental advocates and security actors remain wary of each other's focus, means, and ends, both scholars and policymakers are working to better understand these linkages and respond to them. Today, the wide range of potential climate change impacts is re-energizing broader debates over human security that suggest redefining security beyond purely militaristic terms. At the same time, the traditional security community's increased concern with climate change (and the social reactions it may produce) has helped garner wider attention. The number of U.S. and overseas policy responses is dizzying. In this lecture, Geoff Dabelko highlights key environmental security policy developments and situate today's initiatives within a context of nearly three decades of efforts.

The rate of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) deaths in Massachusetts was examined before and after the implementation of a comprehensive smoke-free workplace law in July 2004. The impact of the state law in cities/towns with and without prior local smoking bans and the effect of the local laws were examined for the period 1999 through 2006.

Following the implementation of the state law, there was a 7.4% (95% CI: 3.3%, 11.4%) decrease in the AMI mortality rate. There was an impact of the state ban in cities/towns with no prior local smoking ban (9.2% decrease, p<0.001), but no observed impact if there was a prior local smoking ban. However, there was a non-significant 4.9% (95% CI: -5.0%, 13.9%) decrease associated with the local smoking ban, which preceded the effect of the state ban. The effect of the state ban was modest (-1.6%) in the first twelve months after implementation, but much larger after the first 12 months (-18.6%, p<0.001). Overall, an estimated 270 fewer AMI deaths per year were associated with the comprehensive statewide smoke-free workplace laws in Massachusetts.

Due to the severity, length, and frequency of conflict around the world, global health is increasingly involved in post-conflict reconstruction. Conflict is increasingly impacting not just the burden of disease and prevalence of serious injuries (including mental health), but also destroying health care systems and physical infrastructure - creating an emergency situation similar to disasters. This seminar will focus on emerging trends in post-conflict global health, as well as provide lessons learned from post-conflict reconstruction projects in which the presenter was directly involved.

Candace Chandra founded Canary Strategies, LLC in 2001. Prior to beginning Canary Strategies, she served as Assistant Regional Adviser, Waste Management Unit at the Center for Environment and Health of the World Health Organization's (WHO) European division (which included 52 countries). During her time at WHO and for a year and a half before, she was part of the coordination and management team for the Vice-President, Human Development Network at the World Bank. In addition, she served as a consultant to the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy. She has extensive experience in project management in developing countries, particularly the Balkans and Latin America, and has developed policy guidelines on heavy metals in soils and health care waste management for the US Environmental Protection Agency, World Bank, and World Health Organization. She speaks English (native), French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and German.

In the quest for understanding health disparities many explanations have been offered. One new and telling hypothesis is that certain groups of people carry a greater weight of stress proportional to the amount of protective factors offered them in society. Key attributes of this new model include introducing internalized hatred as a function of discrimination to increase allostatic load. While also looking at how lifestyle dampens or enhances allostatic loads affect on health outcomes. This new model might be used in the development of future research on allostatic load and health disparities. Using African Americans as an example this presentation seeks to make the connection between discrimination, stress and poor health outcomes.

Dr. Eric G. Walsh serves as the Interim Medical Director for Correctional Medical Services and continues to support Family Health Services as Medical Director for the County of Orange Health Care Agency in California. He received his Medical degree from University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. His current area of research is focused on allostatic load and its relation to health disparities. Dr. Walsh serves on the President’s Advisory Council for HIV/AIDS (PACHA) in Washington D.C. for the current White House administration. He also served on an advisory committee with the former Surgeon General David Satcher at Morehouse School of Medicine. He is an Executive Board Member of both MOMS Orange County and Latino Health Collaborative of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties.

James Diego Vigil, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, University of California, Irvine. Professor Vigil holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Resolution: The Future of UCI is Past. Are UCI's best days over, or are they yet to come?

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Environmental psychology is the study of human behavior and well-being in relation to the large-scale, sociophysical environment. The term, large-scale environment, refers to places such as homes, offices, neighborhoods, and whole communities. These places can be described in terms of several physical and social dimensions, including their geographical location, architectural design, membership and social organization. The term, sociophysical environment, reflects the assumption that the physical and social dimensions of places are closely intertwined. The architectural design of a housing complex, for example, can exert a subtle but substantial impact on the friendship patterns that develop among residents. This course emphasizes the interdependence between physical and social aspects of places, rather than viewing these dimensions as separate and isolated.

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This course presents skills in conflict analysis, policy research, writing and advocacy. Students will read textbooks, online materials, and interact with the instructor and guest lecturers to:

1. engage in conflict analysis of several case studies involving disputes over territory and sovereignty;
2. participate in moderated forums for constructive dialogue to generate new ideas for effective policies leading to confidence-building, creative problem-solving, sound policy design, and conflict transformation in the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and comparable conflicts involving disputes over territory and sovereignty;
3. refine research and writing skills for policy design and advocacy in the field of conflict resolution.

Immigrants' rights advocates argue that localities should be allowed to opt out of Secure Communities while battling local anti-immigrant ordinances on preemption grounds. Immigration enforcement efforts are promoted as necessary to restore the rule of law, yet ongoing enforcement efforts sometimes unfold with apparent disregard for due process rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

What are the sources of these impossible choices and contradictory impulses? Can the law be used to alleviate these tensions, or must we look beyond law’s boundaries? Is political compromise the only answer, or will one agenda emerge to the exclusion of others? Is change destined to be incremental or are there opportunities for sweeping overhaul? These are just some of the questions this symposium hoped to answer.

Pitch systems use mathematics to organize audible phenomenon for creative expression. The cognitive processes we develop through exposure to music comprise a kind of applied mathematics; our emotional responses to musical nuance grow out of a largely unconscious mastery of the patterns and structures in music. This series of presentations covers the basic mathematics and cognitive phenomenon found in the tonal system used in Western music and much of the music of the world. Over the course of several presentations we will explore basic concepts of pitch and frequency, the organizing rules of tonal systems, and the mathematical construction of basic scales and chords. The reasoning and purpose of equal temperament, the standard tuning system for tonal music, will be explored in this context. Presentations will include graphics and computer applications designed specifically to illustrate these concepts.

This a 2-day short course on Fluidics on a Compact disc for medical diagnostics. The course is intended for scientists and engineers in academia, government institutes and industry. Some background in physics, micro-fluidics and point of care (POC) diagnostics is an advantage to the prospective student. Dr. Madou has given this course worldwide and adapts it for each new engagement to reflect the most recent breakthroughs in this area.

To contact Dr. Madou, please use mmadou@uci.edu. Here are the topics that are covered:

1. What problem are we trying to solve? Answer: Integrated Molecular Diagnostics.
2. Why a CD as a diagnostic platform? Benefits of a CD platform compared to competing solutions for molecular diagnostics.
3. Fluidics compared. Here we compare all the different alternatives to pumping fluids in a microfluidic platform.
4. Fluidics image acquisition. How do we visualize flow in a rotating platform?
5. CD fluidics theory background.
6. How to fabricate microfluidic CDs?
7. Applications
8. Sample preparation
   1. DNA Amplification
   2. Detection
   3. Electrical forces on the CD:
      1. Fast DNA arrays
      2. Dielectrophoresis
   4. Pneumatic propulsion: bringing fluids back to the center
   5. Some other CD examples
9. Conclusions

The purpose of this course is to illuminate how water is a political, social, economic, and environmental challenge and to suggest ways we might manage it better and more equitably. You will be provided basic knowledge about physical aspects of water supply and quality; the evolution of water policy throughout history – and in different societies; the importance of water to human and ecological health; the role of law, politics, and markets in its allocation, regulation, and protection; and, the importance of ethics to its equitable provision. The focus of this course is competition for water, and the impacts of this competition on available supply and quality – from a global perspective. Disputes over water are not limited to less developed countries. Such conflicts are growing across the U.S., especially in the West, and in California – where water management has long been a focal point of contention.

• Chemical Compounds Found in Living Organisms
• Structure and Function of Molecules in Living Organisms
• What is Protein and how is it Made?
• Respiration
• Photosynthesis

• History of Thermodynamics
• Conservation of Energy
• Heat Transfer and Changes in Temperature
• Conduction, Convection, & Radiation
• How Chemical Energy in Fuel is Transformed into Heat
• Physical vs. Chemical Changes

• Atoms and Isotopes
• Atoms, Molecules, Elements, Compounds, Mixtures
• States of Matter
• Physical Properties of Matter
• Unique Physical Properties of Chemical Substances
• Chemical Changes
• Acids and Bases
• The Periodic Table
• Position in the Periodic Table
• Organic and Inorganic Compounds
• The Role of Carbon

Financial planning, in the broadest sense, is an effort to manage all aspects of a person / family’s financial affairs. Classically, that begins with planning family spending and extends through risk management (insurance), taxes, wealth accumulation, investing, and wealth distribution (retirement and estate planning).