Public Health Preparedness and Emergency Response Professor Thomas Aragon

Pamela Brown-Vice President of Institutional Research and Academic Planning (IRAP) at UC Office of the President Higher education institutions are increasingly called upon to account for the value of a college degree and importance of research institutions. As the largest public academic research institution in the world, the University of California (UC) must lead the way in advocating the purpose and importance of public higher education. The UC Accountability Report provides the eighth annual comprehensive assessment of the University's progress in meeting key teaching, research and public service goals across its 10 campuses. Similar data is presented in an interactive form in the Information Center. Both data sets provide the University's strategic planning, budgeting and performance management, as well as help the governing Board of Regents identify the most important policy issues facing UC. Pamela Brown will share some of these key findings as she demonstrates how UCOP is using institutional data to respond to performance outcome and accountability efforts while telling the UC story.

Analytic Geometry and Calculus

UC Berkeley leads NASA's mission to launch five identical space probes to solve a decades-long mystery about the origin of magnetic storms that turn the green, shimmering curtains of the Earth's Northern and Southern Lights into colorful, dancing light shows. Scientists from UC Berkeley's Space Sciences Lab and NASA launch the rocket carrying five THEMIS satellites into space. Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/02/18_themis.shtml