Session speakers include Jack von Euw, The Bancroft Library, Chair; Isabel Breskin, UC Berkeley - "For It Looks Nothing Like It": Assessing Accuracy in Prints in Early San Francisco; Michelle Morton, The Bancroft Library - Literary Perceptions of California: California in the Colonial and Early National Imaginaries; Margaretta Lovell, UC Berkeley - Bancroft and the Big Trees. UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library presents a two-day symposium celebrating their 100 years of collecting rare and historic documents. Ancient Egypt, CA history, biotechnology, Mark Twain, and the environmental movement are a few of the topics discussed by three dozen scholars and activists. [events] [artshumanities] Credits:...
"One-Step Conversion of Sugar to Drop-In Renewable Fuels and Chemicals"
Stephen Del Cardayre, vice president for research and development at LS9, the renewable fuel company in South San Francisco, is a specialist on the engineering of whole-cell biocatalysts.
Energy Biosciences Institute
http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/
From the food and food ways series at the Regional Oral History Office. Chef Christopher Lee opened Eccolo Resaurant in 2004 in Berkeley's 4th Street Walking Mall Area. Lee's extensive career includes over ten years working with Alice Waters at Chez Panisse Restaurant. In this interview Lee explores his career as a chef.