Audio Podcasts

Yale University marked the official launch of its Yale Tomorrow campaign September 30. The day’s events included numerous lectures that highlighted the depth and breadth of Yale's incomparable faculty and alumni resources. Experts on history, architecture, American foreign policy, and biomedical engineering, to name just a few, provided insightful presentations and led vigorous discussions on issues of importance. Some of these lectures are available now as podcasts.

See information below for more about how to download and listen to audio files.

Posted January 2007:

Is Reconciliation Between Muslims and Christians Possible?

Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and Director, Center for Faith and Culture; Joseph L. Cumming, Director, Reconciliation Program, Center for Faith and Culture; Andrew D. Saperstein, Associate Director, Reconciliation Program, Center for Faith and Culture. Escalating conflict or reconciliation and transformation—the crisis in relations with the Muslim world will be a defining issue of the 21st century. Engage with Yale scholars on these important questions, and learn how they are bringing together senior religious leaders and scholars from all three Abrahamic faiths for meaningful, reconciling dialogue.
Download in mp3. 49.5 MB; 52.53 minutes.

Dyslexia and Creativity: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Sally E. Shaywitz and Bennett A. Shaywitz, Professors of Pediatrics. In her book, "Overcoming Dyslexia," Sally Shaywitz demystified the roots of dyslexia and showed clear evidence that the brain of the dyslexic reader is wired differently than that of the non-impaired reader and that many bright and successful men and women are dyslexic. Now, the husband and wife team is exploring the connection between dyslexia and creativity.
Download in mp3. 48.1 MB: 51.53 minutes.

Diving Below the Wreck: Defining, Promoting and Teaching the Humanities at Yale.

Marie Borroff, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English. The humanities are our essential weapons against life's meaninglessness and our way to view any subject as "wonderful." Yale's first tenured woman in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences invites you to dive below the wreck the world has become to discover its vast depths and expanses of wonderment and your own breadth and depth of understanding and creativity.
Download in mp3. 17.9 MB. 38.14 minutes.

Women's Health Research at Yale: Deriving Practical Benefits in Health Outcomes.

Carolyn M. Mazure, Professor of Psychiatry & Psychology, Director, Women's Health Research at Yale. The majority of health studies conducted up to the mid-1990s excluded women as participants and, when women were included, did not analyze differences between women and men in health outcomes. Is the new emphasis on studying women warranted? Are there findings with direct and practical implications for women's health?
Download in mp3.  37.7 MB 40.18 minutes.

Posted November 2006:

Biomedical Engineers Changing Medicine

W. Mark Saltzman, Professor and Chairman, Biomedical Engineering; Laura E. Niklason, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering. From non-invasive imaging of the brain to safer and more effective systems to deliver drugs for treating cancer, and from tissue engineering to repairing the retina, Yale scientists are doing ground-breaking and far-reaching work. Learn how these biomedical engineers are revolutionizing health care.
Download in .mp3, 37.6 MB; 40 minutes.

Philip Johnson: Art and Irony

Vincent J. Scully, Jr., '40, '49 Ph.D., Sterling Professor Emeritus, History of Art. Hear Yale's eminent architectural historian talk about Philip Johnson, a good friend of Yale, who was a critic who became an architect, personifying his century's "will to power," its immersion in history, and its commitment to existential change, and involving Phocion and Hadrian, Tivoli and New Canaan, the villa and the garden.
Download in .mp3 , 66.3 MB; 1 hour, 10 minutes.

American Foreign Policy: Multilateralism or Unilateralism

Ernesto Zedillo, '76, '81 Ph.D., Director of the Yale Center for Globalization; John L. Gaddis, Robert A. Lovett Professor of Military and Naval History, Chairman, International Affairs Council; Ian Shapiro, '83 Ph.D., '87 J.D., Sterling Professor of Political Science, Henry R. Luce Director, MacMillan Center. The United States is at a turning point in its foreign policy. Hear three of Yale's finest political minds discuss a range of approaches to America's international relations.
Download in .mp3, 42.1 MB; 1 hour, 15 minutes.

Flies, Mice, and Human Diseases

Tian Xu '90 Ph.D., Professor & Vice Chairman, Genetics, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute. One of Yale's premiere geneticists provides a fascinating look at how mapping the function of the mouse genome will provide the tool kit to develop the effective diagnosis and treatment of many major diseases of our time.
Download in .mp3, 40.1 MB; 42 minutes.

Global Change, Extinctions, and the New Age of Discovery.

Michael Donoghue, G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Director, Peabody Museum; Richard O. Prum, Ph.D., William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Peabody Museum of Natural History; and Lisa Curran, Professor of Tropical Resources and Director of the Tropical Resources Institute at Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. Against the backdrop of global change and the biodiversity crisis, several of Yale's leading scientists associated with the Peabody Museum of Natural History will talk about their work and the hope of dramatically expanding our knowledge of biodiversity and finding solutions in cutting edge discoveries.
Download Donoghue in .mp3, 22.2 MB; 24 minutes.
Download Prum in .mp3, 12.4 MB; 13 minutes.
Download Curran in .mp3, 4.47 MB; 9 minutes.

 

How to download and listen to audio files

There are four ways to listen to the podcasts.

• You can listen to them on your computer right now.
• You can save the files to your computer and listen to them later on your computer.
• You can save the files to your computer and then upload them to your iPod or mp3 player.
• You can use iTunes to download the files and then upload them to your iPod.

To listen to the files on your computer, click on the link. The file should come up in another window and start to play. If it does not, you may have to install software that will plug in to your browser. You can find these plug ins at the following locations:

• QuickTime for Windows.
• QuickTime for Mac.
• RealPlayer Note: the basic version is free. To download the Basic Player version click on "Get RealPlayer Free."

To save the files to your computer,

• on a Windows-based computer using Internet Explorer, right click on your mouse, select "Save Target As," select the location you would like to save it and click "save."
• On a Windows-based computer using Mozilla/Firefox, right click your mouse, select "Save File As," select the location you would like to save it and click "save." To play it, you would go to where you saved it and click on the file. If it does not play, you may have to download one of the plug ins listed above (QuickTime or RealPlayer).
• On a Mac using the Safari browser, hold down the control key and click your mouse. Then select "Download Linked File." You also will have the option of opening the file with iTunes, opening the link in a new window or adding the link to a bookmark.

If you have an iPod or mp3 player, you can use the software (iTunes or MusicMatch, among others) that came with your player to upload the file.

To use iTunes to download these podcasts, and others developed by Yale, please click here.