Past Lectures for:

• Synergy: Explorations in Science & Society: This series focused on UCSC research, as well as teaching and grants in science and engineering with a view towards their impact on society.
• Mosaic: Intersections in the Humanities & Social Sciences: This lecture series highlighted faculty research and creative projects from the UCSC campus community.

Past Synergy Lectures

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• Brent Haddad - Not an Accident? Understanding Why One Billion People Worldwide Lack Reliable Drinking Water (April 27, 2004)
• Glen Millhauser - Mad Cow Disease: Why We All Have the Prion Protein and How It Can Go Wrong in Disease (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 14, 2004)
• David Koo - What is our universe? How large is it? What was the universe like in the past? (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (March 1, 2005)
• Lindsay Hinck - Wiring the nervous system from tip to toe: how do neurons go to and fro? (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (May 3, 2005)
• Susan Schwartz - Great Earthquakes and Tsunamis: How, Why, and Where? (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 19, 2005)
• Mary Silver - Red Tides, Shellfish, and Cultural Dietary Traditions (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (March 2, 2006)
• Bruce Schumm - Deep Down Beauty: Particle Physics, Mathematics, and the World Around Us (May 2, 2006)
• David Haussler - Reconstructing 100 Million Years of Human Evolutionary History (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 17, 2006)
• Karen Ottemann - Swimming in the Stomach: the ulcer-causing bacterium Heliobacter pylori and disease (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (March 8, 2007)
• Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross - Santa Cruz Coast: Then & Now (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (April 17, 2007)
• Marc Mangel - Why We Age, What Makes Us Age, and What Can Be Done About It (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (May 17, 2007)
• Pradip Mascharak - Treating Skin Cancer with Light? Not a Fallacy Anymore! (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 18, 2007)
• Lisa C. Sloan - California's Future Climate: Likely Scenarios and Impacts (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 29th, 2008)
• Michael Mateas - Serious Games  (Listen to this Lecture - MP3 File) (October 29, 2009)
• Sharon Stammerjohn - Polar amplification - What is it, and is it happening now? (October 21, 2010)

Past Mosaic Lecutres

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• Virginia Steel - Academic Libraries for the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities (March 9, 2006)
• Alex Soojung-Kim Pang - The End of Cyberspace (April 25, 2006)
• Leta Miller - Lou Harrison, Musical Trailblazer (October 26, 2006)
• Gary Griggs and Deepika Shrestha Ross - Santa Cruz Coast: Then & Now (April 17, 2007)
• "Transitions Reflections on 41 Years of McHenry Library" (November 6, 2007)
• Lisa C. Sloan - California's Future Climate: Likely Scenarios and Impacts (October 29th, 2008)