New poetry from "One of the most assured voices in contemporary poetry" (from Library Journal). With graduate poet Rachel Beck.
Swensen's poetry is filled with delicate and precise illuminations. The ordinary things to which the poet turns her gaze are revealed to be astonishing, full of the withheld, or at least the under-observed.
In her newest collection, The Glass Age (Alice James Books, 2006), she explores the perceptive space of the transparent-- of glass-- revealing, as John Ashbery puts it that "seeing is believing sometimes, but believing is almost always seeing." Her poetry is described as scholarly, meticulous, daring, assured, thoughtful--and like the reflective and penetrable...
October 6, 2009
Prof. Bob Infelise discusses Air Pollution Control; Introduction and Overview; National Ambient Air Quality Standards; Setting National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
For more information on key environmental issues, visit Berkeley Law's environmental blog, http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/, or the Video and Audio Resources page, http://www.law.berkeley.edu/2866.htm.
California has not undertaken an infrastructure project on the scale of HSR in more than a generation. Any project of this size necessarily faces uncertainty over financial feasibility. In the case of HSR, there has been great uncertainty surrounding the financing for construction costs, as well as the costs of operating the HSR system once construction is complete. The promise made by HSR supporters has been that private monies will finance a significant portion of the project's construction and that fare revenues will provide adequate revenues to cover operating costs. This panel will discuss the costs of HSR in comparison to the cost of highway and airport expansion, taking into consideration the anticipated improvements in these competing modes. The panel will offer insights into the likely financial feasibility of California's HSR system.
Moderator: Samer Madanat
Xenel Professor of Engineering
Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies
UC Berkeley
"The Future Air Transport: Projections for California"
Mark Hansen
Professor
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This panel discusses the challenges facing scientists, politicians and the media in communicating to the public the complex facts about the climate crisis, and facilitating a national discussion about the problem and its solutions. The China-U.S. Climate Change Forum was organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, which is forging closer ties between U.C. Berkeley and China by bringing together key experts on important international and bilateral issues. Growing concern over climate change makes this topic an obvious choice for the first of this series of annual events. This panel will highlight the mutual vulnerability of China and the U.S. to climate change, and the indispensable role of scientific...
Christina Maslach, Professor of the Graduate School
Distinguished Faculty Lecture: The Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
Wednesday October 1, 2014, 3pm, Alumni House.
Professor Maslach is internationally known for her ground-breaking research on job burnout and its applications to policy and practice.