Given the gravity of the problems posed by global climate change, there's a growing need to make the expertise at Berkeley available to the public and policy makers. A commitment to reaching beyond the campus is one of the signature characteristics of this endeavor — and, indeed, Berkeley as whole. Not only to assess the potential societal impacts, but to help society prepare for and mitigate those impacts. To that end, we are using this gathering to inaugurate a conversation between journalists and scientists. This is just the beginning.
What did today's discussions look like through the eyes of reporters who will be writing about climate change in the coming years? What potential is there for translating what we discussed today into compelling and illuminating stories that will reach decision-makers? To explore these questions, we've assembled a panel of students from the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
Graduate Students reporting on the story of the day: Mateo Hoke, Zach St. George, Tanya Dimitrova, Erik Neumann, Jean Spencer, Tawanda Kanhema.
UC Berkeley's 2013 Philomathia Symposium on Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World
Featuring UC Berkeley Professors Dan Kammen, Paul Alivisatos, Tsu-Jae King Liu, and Shankar Sastry along with visiting scholars Peter Bearman and Carol Becker (both professors at Columbia University).
"Henry Kaplan and the Story of Hodgkin's Disease"
Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, Shenson Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Division of Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, M.D., for a discussion of the development of a cure for Hodgkin's lymphatic cancer. Tracing her decision to become a medical oncologist, Dr. Jacobs characterizes the challenges of being both an oncologist and biographer. She then traces the history of Hodgkin's disease including the contributions of scientists who identified the cancer, its distinctive pattern of moving through the lymph system, and other clues that led to a cure. Focusing on the career of Stanford's Dr. Henry Kaplan, she describes the qualities that established his leadership as a scientist, clinician, and inventor. She identifies the ways in which his interdisciplinary focus and organizing skills impacted research, teaching, and treatment of cancer including his adaptation of Stanford's linear accelerator into a medical device that could destroy cancer cells. Dr. Jacobs discusses the qualities of mind and spirit that characterize oncologists. She also points to the role of serendipity in leading to breakthroughs using as a case study chemotherapy, especially the work of Dr.Vincent DeVita in developing the combination drug (MOPP) used in the treatment of Hodgkins Disease. Finally, Dr. Jacobs discusses lessons of Henry Kaplan's career and the story of Hodgkin's disease for the future of cancer research.
http://www.conversationswithhistory.com
Online Graphics Course OpenGL Shading: Motivation
Table of Contents:
00:13 - Motivation for Lecture
01:42 - Demo for mytest3
02:49 - Importance of Lighting
04:58 - Brief primer on Color
08:40 - Outline
09:19 - Vertex vs Fragment Shaders
Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
James Gustave Speth, Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
Recorded April 2, 2008
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Yale Professor James Gustav Speth for a discussion of his career in the environmental movement. Professor Speth traces his changing perspective on the appropriate response to the environmental crisis. Concluding that only a radical transformation of capitalism will save the planet for future generations, he outlines the changes in consciousness and in the political agenda that will be required.
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/