KUCI: Ask A Leader

Live at UCI, Its The Coup de Comedy AND HB No Styrofoam Challenge

UCI stage manager Joel Veenstra with his student directors Vinny Tangherlini and Chloe Schneider cover UCI's Improv Revolution presenting The Coup de Comedy Festival 2015, a free May 6-9 festival of comedic talent, 2 panels, 14 free workshops, and the Revolutionary Comedy Award honoring Keegan-Michael Key. Lots of links for loads of laughs: http://improvrevolution.org/coup-de-comedy-festival-2015/; https://www.facebook.com/irevatuci; https://coupdecomedy2015.sched.org/; http://improvrevolution.eventbrite.com/. Then, Huntington Beach activists: Vern Nelson, Lori Robeson, and Paul Both make their case for their no-Styrofoam challenge, one business at a time. A posting of "good neighbor" participating businesses is available on the Facebook page - Huntington Beach No Styrofoam Challenge. Rainbow Recycling and wastetowaves.org and SustainableSurf.org are additional resources to which consumers can turn.

Open Wound AND Opening Up

Double-Triple Bill: Shakespeare Shorts AND Climate Change Tutorials for Mimi Walters

Earthquake Awareness: Zot, Tuck, and Repeat AND The Measure of Happiness

Ann Widney, UCI's Emergency Services Manager, helps prepare and pack us, before the Big One shakes. Resources toward preparing include: http://www.ready.gov/, http://sites.uci.edu/emergencymanagement/, or Anne's contact information: 949-824-7147. Peter Ditto, UCI professor of Psychology and Social Behavior, presents Dr. Sean Wojick and his findings published in the March issue of Science, "Conservatives report, but liberals display greater happiness." Additional exhaustive research can be followed in Professor Ditto's Hot Cognition Lab at: http://sites.uci.edu/peterdittolab/ and http://www.yourmorals.org/.

Shaken Shakespeare AND The Worth of Social Work

UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts Professor and Director Jane Page, with MFA students Kelsey Miller, and Sam Arnold speak briefly about some very special Shakespearean encounters to which local listeners will be treated. Much, much more at: http://illuminations.uci.edu/. Jane Page will return shortly to the show with more, fresh programming. The larger share of AAL is devoted to Jolene Hui, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the Los Angeles area and the Membership Coordinator in southern California chapter of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) joins Kurt Wellman, the director of the same NAS California Chapter, who take stock of the range of the services, missions, and tribulations of their profession. Resources for the organization are available at: http://helpstartshere.org/, http://www.beasocialworker.org/, and http://www.naswca.org/.

Matthew’s Matters: Center for Unconventional Security Affairs

UCI Prof.Richard Matthews, speaks for the whole hour as Director of the Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA), known for making humanitarian inroads into looming local, regional, and international problems. Sustainability and Public Private Partnerships get intense scrutiny; and then on to specific ventures that demonstrate the value of bottom up, multi-disciplinary approaches. More information for special lectures and other events presented by CUSA are available at: http://www.cusa.uci.edu/

Student Movements de Jour AND Dirty Lessons at the ENC

Guest hostess, Helen Kirkby joins the show to make measure with UCI sociology professor David Meyer and student Parshan Khosravi, examining student activism in CA and beyond. The high cost of learning, voting behavior, news consumption, racial justice, and climate change get their attention. In the second half, Executive Director of the Environmental Nature Center, Bo Glover, launches plans for the Center's new preschool, scheduled to start in January 2017. The curriculum will offer an alternative to sanitized early learning lessons in the burbs. Information about the Center's preschool campaign as well as current ongoing activities is available at:http://encenter.org/

MINDing UCI’s Clinical Trials AND ”The Madman and the Assassin...”

Dr. Josh Grill, Director of Education at UCI's MIND (Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders), and the Alzheimer's Research Center, covers ongoing clinical trials at UCI and in collaborations with other health care research centers around the world. Information about enrolling in research, and upcoming events is available at: http://mind.uci.edu/. Josh Grill will return to this program on many future occasions. Scott Martelle, journalist and author, talks about his recently published fifth book entitled, "The Madman and the Assassin: The Strange Life of Boston Corbett, the man who killed John Wilkes Booth," on the eve of the many commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Published by Chicago Review Press, the book is available at: http://www.chicagoreviewpress.com/ or as a premium at KUCI's upcoming spring fund drive this April. Follow Scott @smartelle or at www.scottmartelle.com.