Imperial identities: the 'first British Empire'
Imperial identities: the 'first British Empire'
Distinguished Innovator Lecture Series: Burghardt Tenderich
Burghardt Tenderich is General Manager of Bite Communications North America, a leading technology public relations consultancy with US offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto and New York. In this role, Burghardt helps guide strategic communications for technology leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Applied Materials, Dolby Laboratories, Infosys Technologies and Advanced Micro Devices, as well as for a wide portfolio of emerging brands. He is currently leading Bite clients into the realm of social med
Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office
Conservation: From the Farm to the Front Office - Sustainability with a Sense of Place
James Geringer was Governor of Wyoming from 1994 to January 2003. He modernized economic planning to extensively include technology and changed how natural resource agencies work together on the state, federal and local level. He joined Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) in the summer of 2003 as Director of Policy and Public Sector Strategies, focused on how senior elected and corporate officials
Berkeley Writers at Work: Robert Hass
Robert Hass, professor of English at Berkeley and former Poet Laureate of the United States, reads from his work, is interviewed about his writing process, and answers questions from the audience.
Hass was appointed Poet Laureate in 1995. During his tenure, he turned a largely ceremonial post into one that actively addressed literature and literacy. He wrote a column for the Washington Post, introduced up-and-coming poets to the public, and advocated literacy and reading throughout the country.
Berkeley Writers at Work: David Kirp
David Kirp is a Berkeley professor of public policy. He is the author of many nonfiction titles, the most recent being "Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education", in which he looked at 12 colleges and universities that, in order to deal with competitive pressures, are marketing themselves much like a consumer brand. Kirp is interviewed by John Levine, a College Writing Programs lecturer.
Writers at Work takes an unusual approach to writing. While nonfiction
Bear in Mind: Energy BioSciences Institute
What the Energy Biosciences Institute means for UC Berkeley
On February 1, global energy firm BP announced that it had selected UC Berkeley, in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to lead an unprecedented $500 million research effort to develop new sources of energy and reduce the impact of energy consumption on the environment.
In this edition of Bear in Mind, UC Berkeley's ongoing series of webcasts about campus is
Episode 21 – A short history of Phar Lap curators The ‘relics’ of history have been housed in museums for hundreds of years. Museum Victoria was officially started in 1854 by British colonialists who collected items deemed to be significant to the nation’s identity, culture, and education. Today the tradition of acquiring and housing what is significant to the nation’s culture continues but it’s performed by representatives of the broad Australian public, in the form of historians, scientists, and i
Art a GoGo Podcast #26 - John Myatt: The Biggest Art Con of the 20th Century Please visit our blog at www.artagogo.com/blog for full show notes and links that we discuss during the show. We had the pleasure of interviewing British artist John Myatt. Myatt along with his former partner John Drewe are responsible for what is described by many to be the biggest art con of the 20th Century. The story has caught the imagination of Hollywood, with no less than two movies in the works. Michael Douglas’ film titled <
Fellowship artist profile: Larry McNeil (Tlingit/ Nisgaá)
Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil (Tlingit / Nisgaá)
Photography
Boise, Idaho
Larry Tee Harbor Jackson McNeil has exhibited his work throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and New Zealand. Among other honors, McNeil is a 2006 recipient of the National Geographic All Roads Project Award. “I have been working on this fly by night mythology work for quite sometime now. It started out as a look at our Tlingit traditional stories with Raven the Changeling and Trickster playing th
Epidemiology
This program allows users to graphically enter population and disease characteristics (e.g., the virulence of the pathogen, the likelihood of transmission), to set up an initial population, and then observe the changes in population characteristics and the prevalence of the disease through time.
Using modified SIR-type models (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered), Epidemiology allows students
* to ask a variety of "what if" questions
* to design and perform their own investigations
* to
Episode 10: Interview with artist-in-residence James Watkins
This week we talk with artist-in-residence James Watkins. He is known for his incredible work with ceramics. During his weeklong residency, Watkins will work with visiting school groups, conduct a public raku firing using a raku kiln, and offer a lecture on his work. The artist was the focus of the 2005 Eiteljorg exhibit A Meditation of Fire: The Art of James C. Watkins.
Getting Chinese medicine in to balance
Director of the Health Science Research Institute and chair of public health Professor Sarah Stuart-Brown talks about some of the fundamentals of Chinese medicine and her own experience of the practice.
The Experience of Muslims in British and French Prisons
According to new research there is a significant difference in the way that the British and French prison systems treat Muslim prisoners. Taking the prison experience as a microcosm of both French and British society, Professor Joly explores the issues of national identity, multiculturalism and ethnic or regligous tensions within both countries and how the state has responded to the challenges. Touching on the recent riots across France, Professor Joly raises serious concers about the ability of
EXCITE (Teaching Epidemiology)
This is a collection of teaching materials for teaching students about public health and epidemiology. Materials focus on principles and practices of epidemiology, including the scientific method of inquiry, biostatistics, and outbreak investigation. Exercises allow students to use what they've learned to solve real outbreaks.
Cyanobacteria Health Page
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Health Studies page focuses on cyanobacteria, single-celled organisms thought to be the origin of plants. Cyanobacteria live in fresh, brackish, or marine water and are of concern to the CDC and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) because some can form harmful blooms that deplete the oxygen and block sunlight that other organisms need to live. They can also produce powerful toxins that affect the brain and liver of animals and humans. This
Immunization Hesitancy: A Rising Tide that Challenges the Public Health
Societal support for traditional childhood immunization is changing. Increasingly, parents are renegotiating recommended immunization schedules with pediatricians. Marcuse, also associate medical director at Seattle Children's Hospital, discusses this hesitancy and the potential consequences for disease prevention. In this videotaped lecture, he also addresses balancing parental rights with protecting public health. This lecture was part of the Howard A. Schneiderman Memorial Bioethics Lecture S
Capital Markets
This course examines several aspects of the global capital markets, including private and public financial intermediaries, domestic and global security markets, organized exchanges for stock and bond securities trading, and capitalization structure. We will also learn the mechanics of the buy-side/sell-side, the role of investment bankers and brokers, the underwriting process, various types of financial securities and derivatives, and other topics that are timely to today’s global markets.
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11.255 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in the Public Sector (MIT)
This course investigates social conflict and distributional disputes in the public sector. While theoretical aspects of conflict are considered, the focus of the class is on the practice of dispute resolution. Comparisons between unassisted and assisted negotiation are reviewed along with the techniques of facilitation and mediation.
Public Health Students Speak about the Faculty
Students Speak: On the Department of Public Health Sciences Faculty
Detection of Genetically Modified Foods
Genetically modified foods are often in the news and widely grown in the United States. Three US government agencies (USDA, FDA, and EPA) work to regulate the introduction and production of genetically modified foods. These crops can provide agricultural, ecological and nutritional benefits, but there are also potential risks to the environment and consumers. As consumers and public interest groups around the world have become aware of these risks, there has been a call for more explicit product
