john a. powell, the Robert D. Haas Chancellor's Chair in Equity and Inclusion, delivers his talk, "Us vs. Them: Turning Our Differences Into Our Strengths," at the Hewlett Challenge Celebration at UC Berkeley. At the completion of the landmark Hewlett Challenge -- which raised over $220 million to endow 100 new faculty chairs -- UC Berkeley honored alumni, friends, and the Hewlett Foundation at a celebratory event at the Li Ka Shing Center. The November 2012 celebration included presentations by 5 of the new Hewlett chairholders: Ken Goldberg, Eli Yablonovitch, john a. powell, Serena Chen, and 2011 Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter. http://givetocal.berkeley.edu/

Michael Roth's lecture was co-sponsored by the Program in Critical Theory and the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Author and curator (most notably of the exhibition "Sigmund Freud: Conflict and Culture," which opened at the Library of Congress in 1998), Roth describes his scholarly interests as centered on "how people make sense of the past." His fifth book, Memory, Trauma and History: Essays on Living with the Past will be published this year by Columbia University Press, and he is currently preparing his next book, Why Liberal Education Matters, for Yale University Press.

General Biology Lecture

General Biology