Operational Excellence is a UC Berkeley effort to reduce costs and improve campus operations in order to ensure that as large a fraction as possible of our resources are directed to our core mission of teaching and research.
The first phase of Operational Excellence is a fact-finding and assessment exercise that includes interviews and briefings with nearly 400 individuals, data gathering and analysis to document our current financial environment, and the preliminary development of options for achieving both financial sustainability and a new level of organizational performance. UCB Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Vice Chancellor Frank Yeary present an interim report of the progress to date.
Full Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory press conference regarding Prof. Saul Perlmutter's 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. Perlmutter, 52, a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a faculty senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), led one of two teams that simultaneously discovered the accelerating expansion of the universe. Perlmutter led the Supernova Cosmology Project that, in 1998, discovered that galaxies are receding from one another faster now than they were billions of years ago. He shares the Nobel Prize with Adam G. Riess, 41, of The Johns Hopkins University and Brian Schmidt, 44, of Australian National University's Mount Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories, two members of the competing High-Z Supernova Search team. When the discovery was made, Riess was a postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley working with astronomer Alex Filippenko, who at different times was a member of both teams.
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/04/saul-perlmutter-awarded-2011-nobel-prize-in-physics/
Learn about the expanding role of online higher education for students at UC Berkeley and across the nation. Hear about what we are doing and how we are doing it here at Berkeley, and see a demonstration of some of the newest online education tools. Learn more about UC Berkeley Extension at extension.berkeley.edu.
Words In Action: FRENCH
Four poems by 19th and 20th century poets
Conte de fées by Robert Desnos Performed by Sasha Helton
Il pleure dans mon coeur by Paul Verlaine Performed by Trevor Jackson
Sensation by Arthur Rimbaud Performed by Clara Mathews
Le Cancre by Jacques Prévert Performed by Marisa Palucis
Words In Action - A MULTILINGUAL STUDENT PERFORMANCE CELEBRATING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AT UC BERKELEY
Chevron Auditorium -- International House Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Words In Action is generously sponsored by the BERKELEY LANGUAGE CENTER
International and Area Studies 2009 Commencement Ceremony
May 20, 2009
Zellerbach Auditorium
This once-a-year event honors graduates of Development Studies, International and Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and PEIS. This is a major right of passage and milestone, and one of the few ceremonies that people have in their lives. We hope you can join us for this auspicious occasion.
http://ias.berkeley.edu/
http://iastp.berkeley.edu/