This is the 3rd annual community research competition, Targeting Neglected Diseases. The contest aims to identify biochemical targets for new therapeutics to prevent or treat neglected diseases. The prize for the winning target is screening at the UCSF Small Molecule Discovery Center.
"Reaching for the Stars"
Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy
University of California, Berkeley
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Gibor Basri, Professor of Astronomy at UC Berkeley, for a discussion of his work in astrophysics. Topics covered include: research methodology, discovery of Brown Dwarfs (stellar objects that are not planets nor stars),and the research agenda of NASA Kepler Mission. Professor Basri also discusses science education and his work (as Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion) in motivating and recruiting minority students for a future in science.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/
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
Share your own Bike to Work Day photos as #bike2berk
Each year, Bike to Work Day celbrates and encourages cycling as a low-cost, energy efficient and healthy mode of transportation. So whether you're one of UC Berkeley's 5,000 regular bicycle commuters, or you're brand new to the proposition, round up friends and colleagues and plan your ride to campus.
video created by Phil Ebiner on his commute to work from North Berkeley to UC Berkeley.
Kevin M. Guthrie is an executive and entrepreneur with expertise in high technology and not-for-profit management. As founding president of Ithaka, Kevin has overseen the development of an organization that incubates three major initiatives, provides research and strategic services to the higher education community, and provides administrative services to four organizations. Ithaka was launched in January 2004 and has offices in New York, NY, Princeton, NJ, and Ann Arbor, MI.
Kevin holds a BSE in Civil Engineering from Princeton University and a Masters in Business Administration from Columbia University.
For further information:
http://www.ithaka.org/about-ithaka/our-staff-1/kevin-guthrie-president