Integrative Biology 131 - Lecture 06: Skeletal System
Integrative Biology 131: General Human Anatomy. Fall 2005. Professor Marian Diamond. The functional anatomy of the human body as revealed by gross and microscopic examination.
The Department of Integrative Biology offers a program of instruction that focuses on the integration of structure and function in the evolution of diverse biological systems. It investigates integration at all levels of organization from molecules to the biosphere, and in all taxa of organisms from viruses to higher plants and animals.
The department uses many traditional fields and levels of complexity in forging new research directions, asking new questions, and answering traditional questions in new ways. The various...
The day's panels are discussed by two respondents, Maite Zubiaurre (Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA), and Michael Dear (Professor Emeritus, City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley).
Environ Sci, Policy, and Management C11, 001 - Spring 2015
Americans and the Global Forest - Lynn Huntsinger
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PACS 164A: Introduction to Nonviolence - Fall 2006. An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense.
The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium discussed the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming. This session features William W. Nazzaroff - Chair, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley & Professor of Environmental Engineering, UC Berkeley; Robert J. Birgeneau - Chancellor, University of California, Berkeley. [events] [glopubaffairs] [scitech] Credits: producer:UC Berkeley Educational...
Envisioning a Renewables-Based Chemical and Energy Industry: Strategies and Transformations for the Biomass Refinery
EBI Seminar Speaker James "Ned" Jackson joined the chemistry faculty at Michigan State University in 1988, where he is now a professor. His research interests include experimental and computational studies of dihydrogen bonding, reactive intermediates, design of organic molecular magnetic materials, and development of renewables-based catalytic pathways to "petrochemicals" and fuels.
His abstract:
Chemical manufacturing is among the largest components of the global economy, providing fuels, polymers, coatings, lubricants, personal care goods, medicines, and many other products used across the world. Most of this production is based on fossil starting materials, mainly petroleum. Indeed, the very fields of organic chemistry and chemical engineering have grown up in a unique age of history—the century of the hydrocarbon. As a result, the way the majority of people live has hugely changed, mostly for the good.
But fossil resources are growing rarer and more expensive, and the impacts of rising atmospheric CO2 levels are starkly emerging. It is thus critical to shift the world's chemical and energy industries to a renewable, carbon-neutral basis. This large-scale challenge is ultimately one of economies—of money, energy, and carbon—and the chemical pathways needed to practically enable the shift.
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