Mathematics 128A, 001 - Spring 2014 Creative Commons 3.0: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

When Vice President Joe Biden dropped by UC San Francisco on Saturday for a wide-ranging discussion of the current state of cancer research, UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna was on hand to emphasize the need to fund basic research as well as clinical research. Using the gene-editing tool she discovered, CRISPR-Cas9, as an example, Doudna plugged the important role of basic biological research in any effort to understand the drivers of cancer and discover possible new therapies for the disease. “I just would love to see the cancer moonshot continue to support fundamental research that leads to breakthroughs that are going to be critical to address this mission,” she told Biden. Biden referenced their earlier meeting in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 19, where the vice president rolled out plans by the Obama administration to invest $1 billion in this national initiative to eliminate cancer. “You sold me on that at Davos,” he said. ...

The Philomathia Foundation Symposium at Berkeley: Pathways to a Sustainable Energy Future The Velocity of Climate Change Chris Field, Co-chair, IPCC Working Group 2: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability For more information, visit http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/energy/symposium/philomathia2010

Governor Jennifer Granholm, the featured speaker of the 2013 Goldman School Board of Advisors Dinner, discussed ways in which the US can become a greener and more sustainable nation.