Innovation and ideas on the air and on the Web

Here is a sampling of recently recorded presentations, all available from UCTV, the University of California television network. The Frontiers program is also available on local cable TV and student housing TV.

Ted Kooser at UC Davis, reading and talk by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate.

How Does Change Happen? (Angela Davis).

Arts Education in America (Jonathan Kozol, author and social critic, with Muriel Johnson, Halifu Osumare and Sarah Anderberg).

Frontiers: Art and Ethnic Politics (Malaquias Montoya); Avian Influenza (Christian Sandrock and Walter Hudson); Law and Rights in the Middle East (Madhavi Sunder and Keith Watenpaugh); Airport Security (Matt Augustine); and Hurricane Katrina (Louis Warren, Ari Kelman and Patricia Turner).

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, in a discussion with Jack Hicks.

UC Davis doctors use telemedicine to communicate with their rural counterparts.

On UCTV's State of Minds.

MIND Institute, Children with Autism Show Differences in Neural Processing of Mental Arithmetic, The Use of Technology in the Education and Treatment of Children with Autism, A Mixed Epigenetic-Genetic and De Novo-Inherited Model for Autism (Arthur Beaudet), If the Incident of Autism is Increasing, What Could be the Cause? (Beaudet) and Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: What Is the Relationship? (David Pauls). On UCTV's The Med Ed Hour.

Go to www.uctv.tv/davis for online streaming and podcasts, or to see when the programs are scheduled for presentation on the UCTV cable channel in your area. To learn when Frontiers is playing on student housing TV, look for announcements on Channel 27.

To see Frontiers on local cable, check the listings at the following Web sites:

Davis Community Television–Channel 15 www.dctv.davis.ca.us WAVE TV Woodland–Channel 21 http://wavetv.org Access Sacramento–Channels 17 and 18 www.accesssacramento.org