Bill Maher gives the keynote address at UC Berkeley's Winter Commencement and graduation ceremony on Saturday, December 20, 2014.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian
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Workforce Strategies, Energy Efficiency, and Green Jobs: A summit to discuss needs, challenges, and opportunities in California - Final Panel
IMPLICATIONS AND NEXT STEPS: SESSION REPORT BACKS AND COMMENTARY BY POLICYMAKERS
Commissioner Dian Grueneich, California Public Utilities Commission
Chairwoman Karen Douglas, California Energy Commission (invited)
The Honorable Senator Loni Hancock (invited)
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The note, now on loan from the Bancroft, goes on display at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam this Friday as part of an exhibit titled “On the Verge of Insanity.”
For a book on the Dutch master’s mutilated ear, British author Bernadette Murphy needed to clear up confusion about the extent of the damage the artist inflicted on himself in 1888. So she rang up the Bancroft, which held Stone’s archives.
For the full story, visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2016/07/12/sharp-eyes-at-bancroft-and-a-new-focus-on-van-goghs-ear/
Library assistant David Kessler searched through an uncataloged box devoted to Lust for Life, and finally retrieved a signed letter from Van Gogh’s doctor with a sketch of his left ear detailing the self-mutilation, which attested to the fact that the artist removed all but the earlobe.
That tale and more are now revealed in the newly published book Van Gogh’s Ear: The True Story (Chatto & Windus, London), which was discussed today at a press conference at the museum. The letter is also the centerpiece of a new PBS documentary on the artist that will premiere later this month, and which is based on Murphy’s book.
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
UC Berkeley's new Stanley Hall was built to accommodate a highly interdisciplinary approach to bioscience research, targeting new treatments for diseases, more environmentally friendly sources of energy and better ways to clean up pollutants. This series of videos includes interviews with Professor Susan Marqusee who tells about the vision of Stanley Hall, Bio-engineering lecturer Terry Johnson, Mechanical Engineering graduate student Jeanne Stachowiak, and Chemistry Professor David Wemmer. (2:55 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/09/26_stanley.shtml
Mike Jani, President and Chief Forester, Humbolt Redwood Company, LLC, will discuss the transformation of forest management practices in Northern California. Since Humbolt Redwood Companys founding out of a reorganization of the former Pacific Lumber Company in July 2008, Mike Jani has implemented ecosystem based management practices in their holdings of approximately 327 square miles (209,300 acres) of coast redwood and Douglas-fir forestland. This approach quelled years of protests over old-growth logging and opened a new dialogue with the community. Jani will discuss the transition and Humbolt Redwood Companys intent to maintain forestlands for long-term ecological, social, and economic vitality.
Sponsored by the College of Natural Resources
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