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
On October 18, Joe DeRisi, Co-President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub and UCSF Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, hosted a faculty forum at Berkeley to discuss the current Call for Applications for Chan Zuckerberg Investigatorships and take questions from faculty.
US Senator Dick Durbin and national pollster Peter Hart engage in a wide ranging conversation about national politics and congressional issues. Called "The State of the Nation" this program is from the annual Salon event hosted by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies.
http://igs.berkeley.edu/
Engineers at UC Berkeley's Structural Engineering Research Lab have developed a metal shear wall that proved strong enough for use in California and other earthquake-prone regions throughout the world. In this video of a seismic test, researchers subject a new metal shear wall system to 25,000 pounds of force and cyclic displacement, simulating the type of major earthquake expected to occur in the Bay Area. (00:33 min)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/22_shear.shtml
Keynote address: Adaptation of Urban Infrastructure to Water, Climate Change, and Societal Issues
UC Berkeley's 2013 Philomathia Symposium on Water, Climate, and Society: Challenges and Strategies in a Rapidly Changing World