Li is author of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and The Vagrants. A Beijing native and graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, she has received numerous awards. In 2007, Granta named her one of the best young American novelists under 35, and in 2010, The New Yorker named her one of the top 20 writers under 40. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Best American Short Stories among others. She teaches writing at UC Davis.
Herbert M'cleod (Special Advisor, Office of the President, Sierra Leone) spoke about how post-conflict countries should seek to allow for changes to policy based on evidence rather than to recreate the government and economy that led to the conflict. In practice, however, the post-conflict environment is complex, mired in the need for short-term solutions and the rush to return to a sense of "normalcy".
The 4th Annual CEND Symposium - Fighting the Diseases of Poverty
Rebecca Richards-Kortum
"New Tools for Cervical Cancer Screening in Low Resource Settings"
January 13, 2012
Sponsored by the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases
http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cend/
The Invaded Estuary: Exotic Species in San Francisco Bay; given by Andrew N. Cohen, Senior Scientist and Director of the Biological Invasions Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute. The San Francisco Bay Estuary is one of the most highly invaded aquatic ecosystems in the world. The arrival of exotic organisms has altered its species composition, food webs and population dynamics, and exotics now account for most of the species, individuals and biomass across many of the estuary's habitats. Mr. Cohen discusses the state of these invasions, how they've arrived, what changes they've caused, and what if anything can be done about them.