UC Davis art professor Wayne Thiebaud is featured in the fall edition of UCTV's State of Minds, scheduled for an Oct. 13 debut. The Thiebaud segment is about his recent donation of 20 hand-worked prints to UC Davis. (Read the Dateline article.) The new State of Minds also includes a look at UC Berkeley's welcome mat for students returning from Iraq and Afghanistan; a review of the CalTeach program for UC math and science students; an interview with Spying Blind author Amy Zegart of UCLA and an introduction to Mark Yudof, the new UC president. More about State of Minds, including the schedule.

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The UCTV Web site -- uctv.tv -- is all new. It features rotating buttons for "Election 2008" and "Science on Saturday," for example, plus a mechanism to explore by subject area: Arts and Music, Health and Medicine, Public Affairs, Science, Humanities, Business, Education Issues, and Gardening and Agriculture. You can watch a live stream, or choose from thousands of online videos, and video and audio podcasts.

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Check out UCTV's library of UC Davis offerings at uctv.tv/davis. Some of those programs are on UCTV's cable schedule for the next week, as follows:

MIND Institute

-- ADHD: Life Course Outcomes and Treatment Implications, with Russell Barkley. Distinguished Lecturer Series. (February 2008). -- The Problem of Other Minds: Intersubjectivity and Mirror Neurons, with Marco Iacoboni. Distinguished Lecturer Series. (October 2007). On The Med Ed Hour. -- The Mirror Neuron Hypothesis of Autism, with Marco Iacoboni. Distinguished Lecturer Series. (October 2007).

NewsWatch

Two UC Davis reports are presented weekly on KVIE Channel 6: No. 1 -- 5:30 p.m. Monday, 3 p.m. Saturday and a variable time during Monday prime time. No. 2 -- 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, noon Sunday and a variable time during Monday prime time.