"Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief"
James M. McPherson, Professor of History Emeritus, Princeton University, October 27, 2008, 60 minutes
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Pulitzer Prize winning historian and Princeton Professor Emeritus James M. McPherson for a discussion of his new book, Trial by War. Their discussion focuses on the
qualities that defined Abraham Lincoln's leadership, how he came to define the role of commander in chief, the evolution of his thinking on national policy with regard to slavery, how his goal of saving the Union shaped the politics of the war, his relationship to his generals, and the thinking and circumstances that led to his suspension of habeas corpus and the initiation of military tribunals. Professor McPherson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Lincoln's conduct of the civil war and its implications for today's wars.
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CLPR Spring 2011 Speaker Series:
Waking Up to a Nightmare: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood
Robert Gonzales
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Washington
Date: October 14, 2010
Time: 3:00 PM -- 5:00 PM
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On Tuesday evening, 1/14/2013, UC Berkeley's newly inaugurated tenth chancellor, Nicholas B. Dirks, hosted a live 45-minute webcast for alumni and parents. Chancellor Dirks addressed questions submitted in advance from these important constituencies while sharing his vision and priorities for the direction of the university. Hear directly from the Chancellor as he discusses his focus on undergraduate education, the global university and innovation in basic and applied research across the disciplines while expanding Berkeley's primary mission elements: teaching, research and public service.
Berkeley Lab physicist Kam-Biu Luk is among the 2016 Breakthrough Prize recipients for Fundamental Physics, which will be shared by five experimental teams studying neutrino oscillation, including two physicists – Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald – who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering that neutrinos shift their identities as they travel at nearly the speed of light.
Kam-Biu Luk, a UC Berkeley professor of physics and Berkeley Lab scientist is the co-leader of one of the teams, the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment near Hong Kong.
The awards, given annually in the life sciences, physics and mathematics, celebrate scientists and seek to generate excitement about the pursuit of science as a career. They are sponsored by Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife, Anne Wojcicki, a founder of the genetics company 23andMe; Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma and his wife, Cathy Zhang; Russian entrepreneur and venture capitalist Yuri Milner and his wife, Julia; and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan.
Video provided by National Geographic Channel.
Full story: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/11/08/berkeley-mathematician-neutrino-physicists-awarded-breakthrough-prizes/
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