Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases Third Annual Bay Area Symposium on Viruses Lisa Kronstad, UC Berkeley Dual Upstream Open Reading Frames Control Translation of a KSHV Polycistronic mRNA

The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a pervasive impact on the nation and particularly California, the most populous and diverse state in the country. Sponsored by the School of Public Health, the Goldman School of Public Policy and the Robert Wood Johnson Post-doctoral Scholars Program in Health Policy Research, this lecture series "Implementing Health Care Reform in California," will examine all aspects of the ACA on access, cost, and quality of care issues relevant to the State. The series is designed to educate the campus and the larger Bay Area community on this landmark legislation that will affect all of our lives for years to come. California was the first state to create a Health Benefit Exchange following the passage of federal health care reform. As executive director, Peter Lee will manage the creation of a new insurance marketplace in California. Previously, Lee served as the deputy director for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Washington D.C.

Punishment, Culture, and Society

Political Awakenings Harry Kreisler, Executive Director Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley Conversations Host and Executive Producer Harry Kreisler discusses his new book, "Political Awakenings," and tells the story of the Conversations series. Kreisler traces the origins of program, describes his vision of the craft of interviewing, and talks about the ways technology dramatically increased access to the CWH program creating a global audience. He then discusses the origin of the book and its content. Choosing twenty interviews from the 485 in the Conversations archive he focused on those interviewees that stand out because they came to see their world in a radically different way, with important implications for The World. They embraced ideas and actions that implied an alternative way of perceiving politics. In this context, politics means more than party affiliation; it refers to an understanding of power relations. They applied these insights in a variety of arenas, whether world affairs, the role of women in society, the impact on the environment of human behavior. In their own lives, the insights of these guests didnt just happen but were the consequences of life experiences that helped clarify the way things held together—moments of political awakening. http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/iis/Kreisler.html http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/ http://conversationswithhistory.typepad.com/conversations_with_histor/ ...