Curriculum and ChemQuizzes developed by Dr. Mark Kubinec and Professor Alexander Pines Chemical Demonstrations by Lonnie Martin Video Production by Jon Schainker and Scott Vento Developed with the support of The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation
UC Berkeley graduate student, Thomas Azwell is helping to restore the Gulf of Mexico's marshes after they were severely damaged by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill from April to July of 2010. Partnering with researchers and agencies in the Gulf, the Environmental Science student is staking tubes of cotton netting stuffed with pre-composted sugar cane fiber into the dying marshes of Louisiana, testing whether the environmentally sustainable waste material can give a larger variety of plants a better chance at healing the oil-damaged wetlands.
For full story:
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/02/08/gulf-spill-spurs-student-research/
Video produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, UC Berkeley Media Relations
CS 61A - Spring 08 - The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Instructor Brian Harvey
Introduction to programming and computer science. This course exposes students to techniques of abstraction at several levels: (a) within a programming language, using higher-order functions, manifest types, data-directed programming, and message-passing; (b) between programming languages, using functional and rule-based languages as examples. It also relates these techniques to the practical problems of implementation of languages and algorithms on a von Neumann machine. There are several significant programming projects, programmed in a dialect of the LISP language.
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu
Alta Charo, Warren P. Knowles Professor of Law & Bioethics R. Alta Charo, University of Wisconsin Law and Medical Schools
Direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic tests has brought fresh attention to old debates: Who owns our personal information? What obligations are placed on us to seek out and use this information? What limits are imposed on those who would use our information for their own purposes? And perhaps most important of all, what real value is there in this information? As we enter an era in which genetic information is used for everything from humanitarian efforts to identify victims of genocide to recreational geneology and ancestry exploration, has genetics moved beyond the world of medicine? And what in the world should we be doing about it?
This event was sponsored by the College of Letters and Science and California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)