Innovation and ideas on the air and online

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 cable and student housing TV.

Michael Pollan, talk by the author of The Ominivore's Dilemma.

Food, Farming and Genetics, a panel discussion with Michael Pollan and others.

Ted Kooser, 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 (frontiers.ucdavis.edu): 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, The Genetics of Gilles de la Tourette Syndrome (David Pauls), A Mixed Epigenetic-Genetic and De Novo-Inherited Model for Autism (Arthur Beaudet) and Population Screening for Autism at Very Early Age: Findings, Prospects and Problems (Jan Buitelaar). On UCTV's The Med Ed Hour.

How to watch

For other UC Davis programming, go to broadcast.ucdavis.edu. Visit www.uctv.tv/davis for online streaming and podcasts, or to see when programs appear locally on the UCTV cable channel. To learn when Frontiers is playing on student housing TV, check Channel 27. On Davis Community Television, Frontiers can be seen at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays.

To see Frontiers on other local cable, check listings at:

WAVE TV Woodland–Channel 21 wavetv.org

ACCESS SACRAMENTO–Channels 17 and 18 www.accesssacramento.org