Tracy K. Smith received degrees in English and creative writing from Harvard and Columbia, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford. Her first book, The Body's Question, was awarded the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, and her most recent collection, Duende: Poems, received the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches creative writing at Princeton.
UC Berkeley's Nobel Prize winners and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau are featured as part of Vanity Fair magazine's "Green Issue" highlighting activists and scientists who are "propelling a cultural turnaround." Watch Nobel Laureates Yuan T. Lee, Donald Glaser, Daniel McFadden, George Smoot, Charles Townes and Steven Chu prepare for their Vanity Fair portrait titled "Tree of Wisdom" at UC Berkeley after a campus lecture series about energy. (2:12 min) Contact: Roxanne Makasdjian, UCB Media Relations
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/04/10_vf.shtml
eCHEM 1A: Online General Chemistry
College of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
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