Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes George C. Halvorson, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, for a discussion of health care reform. Topics covered include: thinking systemically and comparatively about health care; roots of the American crisis; prerequisites for positive change; lessons of managed care systems such as Kaiser, Mayo and Cleveland; the implications of information technology for reengineering American health care; grading Obama's reforms; and lessons learned from a career in health care management.
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
Former president Jimmy Carter met with students at a reception and book-signing event before a speech at Zellarbach Hall about the Middle East and the need for the U.S. to reassume its role as 'honest broker' in peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. (2:10 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/05/03_carter.shtml
Teri Silvio, "Performance and Animation, Self-making and World-Making"
Michael Craig, "Problems of JRPG Criticism and the Question of Close 'Reading'"
Moderator: Alenda Chang, UC Berkeley
This lecture considers the growth of pictorial art during the Han dynasty (208 BCE to 220 CE), beginning with paintings on silk (including the famous "flying garment") from the tombs at Changsha, continuing with pictures on tomb objects ("mingqi") and lacquer designs, and ending with the remarkable relief pictures on tomb tiles found in Sichuan. Early renderings of space and the beginnings of expressive brushwork are revealed in visual analyses of all these.
The late afternoon session features Clair Brown (Economics, UC Berkeley);
Suzanne Berger (Political Science, MIT); Fred Block (Sociology, UC Davis);
Stephen Ezell (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, W.D.C.); Tim Sturgeon (Industrial Performance Center, MIT).