A group of scientists from around the world who are part of The Berkeley Initiative in Global Change Biology (BiGCB) is warning that an ever-growing population and widespread destruction of natural ecosystems may be driving Earth toward a planet-wide tipping point, an irreversible change in the biosphere with unpredictable consequences. Anthony Barnosky, professor of integrative biology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the lead author of a review paper about this issue in the journal Nature. For full story: http://news.berkeley.edu/2012/06/06/scientists-uncover-evidence-of-impending-tipping-point-for-earth/ Video by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations
John Ohala, now an emeritus professor of linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, had just graduated from college when hundreds of thousands of people converged on the nation's capital for the 1963 March on Washington, which became one of the most historic moments of the civil rights movement. He took his camera, and on the occasion of the march's 50th anniversary, he pulled out his photos from that day and talked about his experience. His story and photos are captured in a narrated slide show created by Melani King.
Read the full story at http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/08/23/50-years-later-images-and-memories-of-the-march-on-washington/
Joyce Maynard has been a writer of both fiction and nonfiction since the age of 18. Her memoir At Home in the World has been translated into fifteen languages. Her eight novels include the newly released After Her, as well as To Die For and the New York Times bestseller, Labor Day. In addition to writing, Maynard performs frequently as a storyteller with The Moth in New York City, and is the founder of the Lake Atitlan (Guatemala) Writers' Workshop.
Dr. Warner Greene of the Gladstone Institutes of Virology and Immunology presented a talk titled, "Depletion of CD4 T Cells in HIV Infection is Mainly a Suicide, Not a Murder" at the 6th Annual CEND Symposium. January 10, 2014 at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Greene's laboratory focuses on the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenic effects of HIV infection, with special emphasis on the function of the HIV nef, vif, and vpr gene products.