Full story: Learn more about Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program here:
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Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots program:
https://www.rootsandshoots.org/
Read more about Jane Goodall's visit: http://news.berkeley.edu/2015/10/14/jane-goodall-at-uc-botanical-garden/
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The Challenge of Slums: Global Health in the Urban Century - Panel 1
Over 1 billion people are living in slums worldwide, and more people are moving in each day, reaching 2 billion by 2030. Urban and slum health is a critical research need and opportunity in the coming decade, concerning those in public health but also everyone interested in economic development and social justice. Please join us to explore this complex issue from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Keynote speaker: Malawian demographer Eliya Msiyaphazi Zulu, founder and director of AFIDEP, the new African Institute for Development Policy in Nairobi, Kenya
Special guest moderator: Sally Stansfield, Executive Secretary of the World Health Organizations Health Metrics Network
Special guest: Dhaval S. Patel, Vice President & Health Systems Director, Marie Stopes International
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Article-level Metrics at PLoS (an alternate way to evaluate impact): A talk by Dr. Peter Binfield on November 9 at UC Berkeley
The Impact Factor of a journal (a measure of the number of citations to an entire journal) is commonly used by scientists and administrators as one indicator of the quality of individual articles within that journal. With the advent of the internet it is now possible to measure the worth of an individual article via so-called 'article-level metrics' (metrics which include citations, usage, bookmarks, blog coverage, and post publication commentary for a single article), and in this respect PLoS leads the world providing the data to allow this analysis.
Dr. Peter Binfield is Managing Editor of PLoS ONE (an open access title; the third largest journal in the world; and the recent winner of a prestigious award for 'publishing innovation').
For more information, see the PLoS website on article-level metrics http://article-level-metrics.plos.org/
Watch how these Berkeley employees are living by the words, "We include and excel, together" -- one of UC Berkeley's five Operating Principles.
Find out what you can do at http://operatingprinciples.berkeley.edu