China-U.S. Climate Change Forum: The Media, Public...
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...
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UC Berkeley and ETH Zurich are delighted to announce the launch of Opencast Matterhorn, an international open source software project designed to ease the recording, processing and distribution of academic content for institutions around the world. Using a communal Webcasting platform, educational technology experts and programmers from 13 partner institutions are developing a system to improve automated video and audio production for course lectures, events and other forms of online knowledge-sharing. Opencast Matterhorn is funded by grants totalling $1.5 million from the William & Flora Hewlett and Andrew W. Mellon foundations.
Annie Barrows is co-author, with her aunt Mary Ann Shaffer, of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. A New York Times bestseller, Guernsey has been translated into twenty-six languages and was named one of the Best Books of 2008 by the Washington Post, TIME magazine, and The Christian Science Monitor, among others. Annie is also the author of the award-winning childrens series Ivy and Bean and The Magic Half. She lives in Northern California and is currently writing one novel for adults and one for children.
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eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
http://chemistry.berkeley.edu/echem1a
Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines
Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin
Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento
Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation