Cal Performances' Director Matías Tarnopolsky talks with Gustavo Dudamel, the Music Director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, and Jose Antonio Abreu, founder of El Sistema, about the importance of music education for children. This discussion was a segment of Cal Performances' Reaching for the Stars: A Forum on Music Education held on the campus of UC Berkeley November 28 & 29, 2012. It was part of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Orchestra Residency; two performances were given by the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela on November 29 & 30, 2012.

California Green Chemistry Workshop: Part 3 - Screens and Emerging Tests Indicative of Ecological Hazard Moderator: Megan Schwarzman, UC Berkeley School of Public Health and Center for Green Chemistry Assessing the Ecological Risk of Toxic Chemicals: A Framework for Testing in the 21st Century Gary Ankley, US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Effects Research Laboratory Emerging 'Omic and Other Screens for Ecotoxicity Assessment Chris Vulpe, UC Berkeley Department of Nutrition Science and Toxicology

Job Search Workshop

"Measuring 'Nothing' and Getting It Right" - a symposium in honor of the physics career of Dr. Stuart Freedman (http://freedman2014.org): Dr. Robert McKeown (Deputy Director for Science at the Jefferson Lab and Governor's Distinguished CEBAF Professor at The College of William and Mary) speaks about his experiences collaborating with Dr. Freedman on the KamLAND experiment in Japan.