The president of the American University in Afghanistan describes the challenges of providing top quality higher learning in a country torn by violence in a ...

Speaking as both an astronomer and "a concerned member of the human race," Sir Martin Rees examines our planet and its future from a cosmic perspec...

Host Harry Kreisler welcomes former CIA operative Robert Baer discussing his book, "Iran--The Devil We Know," including: the craft of spying, U.S. policy in ...

On September 18, 2007, Carnegie Mellon professor and alumnus Randy Pausch delivered a one-of-a-kind last lecture that made the world stop and pay attention. ...

Steven Cowley: Fusion is energy's future

Physicist Steven Cowley is certain that nuclear fusion is the only truly sustainable solution to the f...

Social Intelligence and Leadership

An interview with Daniel Goleman, Psychologist. See how you can use emotional and social intelligence to imp...

Edward W. Kolb (known to most as "Rocky") gave the 2009 Buhl Lecture, sponsored by the Carnegie Mellon Department of Physics. In his lecture "...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor T. V. Paul of McGill University for a discussion of the non-use of nuclear weapons since the dropping of...

In this series from the CFAR National Symposium on HIV/AIDS Prevention & Transmission 2007, you will hear from experts from universities throughout the U...

Supercomputing power over the Internet? Michael Crandell, CEO & Founder, RightScale Inc., discusses automated technology that helps companies run scalabl...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes the President of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Craig Calhoun, NYU's University Professor of the Socia...

Stephen Houston, anthropologist: Faculty Profile - A selected video from the Brown Community

"Can dying cities be saved?" asks Weitzman, Professor of Health and Public Policy.

Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition and Food Studies, discusses obesity, the food industry, and the movement toward healthier models of fo...

Is democracy possible in the Middle East? Alon Ben-Meir, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., an adjunct professor of Global Affairs at SCPS proposes a possible solution to th...