UC Berkeley will be featuring founding Dean, Dr. Stephen Kosslyn to report on year one of a unique undergraduate program. In his talk entitled ""Minerva: A New Kind of Higher Education"" he will be speaking on key aspects of the Minerva program. This ground-breaking education program globally immerses students of the virtual campus as they study in cities around the world. The Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), established in 2014, is a four-year undergraduate program founded as a partnership between the Minerva Project and KGI. Minerva’s founder, Ben Nelson, former Snapfish president, has scrapped every commonly held assumption about how people should be educated. Minerva offers a newly invented curriculum, cultural immersion, and small interactive online seminars to prepare students to become global leaders and innovators.

Public officials are urging California and the nation to put in place Berkeley Seismology Laboratory's Earthquake Early Warning System. Full Story: http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/09/04/time-for-statewide-earthquake-early-warning-system-is-now/ Speakers include: Richard Allen Seismological Lab Director, State Senator Alex Padilla, State Senator Jerry Hill, Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, Mayor Ed Lee, Mark Ghilarducci and USGS Acting Director Suzette Kimball Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner http://www.berkeley.edu http://www.facebook.com/UCBerkeley http://twitter.com/UCBerkeley http://instagram.com/ucberkeleyofficial https://plus.google.com/+berkeley