Berkeley China Initiative - China's Environment: What do we know and how do we know it?
Panel II: Tracing Invisible Threats: Disease and the Environment
Moderator: Roger Cohn
Panelists: Kirk Smith, Peng Gong, Robert Spear
A conference organized by the Berkeley China Initiative, UC Berkeley.
Funded by the Luce Foundation.
December 7-8, 2007
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Our final lecture, which winds up the series (except for a postlude and two addenda), deals with the many Chan-associated paintings preserved in Japan that are grouped here, loosely, under the term Sōgenga. It concludes with the surviving works from two series of "Eight Views of the Xiao-Xiang Region," one attributed to Muqi, the other by Yujian—paintings that can be taken as representing the last stage in the long development of landscape painting in China that has been the central subject of this series.
UC Berkeley researchers have developed a method to learn about the quality, volume, speed, and direction of the flow of salt water and freshwater through the Sacramento Delta. Electrical Engineering Graduate Student, Andrew Tinka, describes the project.
Video by Roxanne Makasdjian
Full story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/05/09/floating-sensors-track-delta-water-flow/
The Berkeley campus' most prestigious award for teaching, the Distinguished Teaching Award is intended to encourage and recognize individual excellence in teaching. Such teaching rises above good teaching: it incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a life-long impact.
The Berkeley Institute of the Environment announces its first annual Distinguished Lecture, featuring Lester R. Brown.
Mr. Brown has been called "one of the planet's most important thinkers" and a "guru of the environmental movement." He is founder of the Worldwatch Institute and the Earth Policy Institute, and author or co-author of 50 books related to the environment. Credits: Producer:The Berkeley Institute of the Environment
"The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Confic Between Latinos and Blacks and What it Means for America". Co-sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Social Change. Filmed October 15, 2004.