"Managing Biosafety and Biodiversity in a Global World - EU, US, California and Comparative Perspectives"
This workshop is the culmination of a two-year project examining the roles that California and the European Union play in defining the forefront of domestic and international environmental policy solutions. The goal of the project is to produce concrete, actionable policy recommendations to further regulatory cooperation between the EU, California and the US on transatlantic environmental issues, including climate change, chemicals policy, biosafety, water regulation, and biodiversity protection. As socioeconomic and environmental issues become increasingly integrated, innovative policy solutions are required to identify and address the complex nexus between society and environment. The project has developed a network of representatives from the US and the EU in academia, industry, the NGO-sector, and government.
Sponsors: UC Berkeley IGS Center on Institutions and Governance, Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of California Washington Center
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Agricultural and Resource Economics 213, 001 - Fall 2014
Applied Econometrics - Michael Anderson
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As the debate over health care reform dominates the nation's politics, former Congressman Victor H. Fazio explores the policy debate and the lessons it holds for the functioning of Congress. How has Congress changed through the years? How does it work today? And how are those changes reflected in the health care discussion?
Fazio represented a district in the Sacramento area for 20 years, from 1979 to 1999. He served as Chairman of the House Democratic caucus, the third-ranking position in the Democratic leadership, and as Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the political arm of the House Democrats. He is also a former member of the California Legislature and a former journalist who co-founded the California Journal. Fazio is now a Senior Advisor at the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld.The Matsui Lecture is delivered each year by a distinguished former Member of Congress who spends a week in residency on the Berkeley campus. The Lectureship honors the legacy of Robert T. Matsui, a Cal graduate who served in Congress for more than a quarter century, building a reputation for bipartisanship and substantive policy achievement. That legacy is also honored by the University's Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, which seeks to engage Cal undergraduates in public service through the presence of distinguished visitors to campus, public programs exploring important issues, and internship programs offering experiential learning. The Matsui Center is a component of the UC-Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies, the state's oldest public policy research center.
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Bio Engineering/ME C117: Structural Aspects of Biomaterials - Professor Lisa Pruitt
This course provides an overview of medical devices, ... all ยป FDA regulatory issues, biocompatibility and sterilization technology. It examines biomechanical properties: isotropy/anisotropy, stiffness, bending stresses, contact stresses, multiaxial loading, plasticity, fatigue, fracture, wear, corrosion, design issues. Also covered: Orthopedics, Dental, Cardiovascular, and Soft Tissue Reconstruction.
Professor Pruitt's current research is focused on fatigue and fracture micromechanisms, cyclic damage zones, and evolution of structure due to cyclic loading and environment in advanced polymers and biomaterials;...
Session speakers include William B. Taylor, UC Berkeley, Chair; Jessica Delgado, UC Berkeley - Bancroft's Mexican Inquisition Collections and Colonial Women's History; Rachel Chico, UC Berkeley - Uncharted Territory: Guiding Seven Undergraduates to Ten Maps at The Bancroft Library, 2003; Sean McEnroe, UC Berkeley - Between the Aztecs and Apaches: The Peculiar Evolution of Tlaxcalan Mission-Towns in Northern New Spain. UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library presents a two-day symposium celebrating their 100 years of collecting rare and historic documents. Ancient Egypt, CA history, biotechnology, Mark Twain, and the environmental movement are a few of the topics discussed by three dozen scholars and...