Keeping FitStaff from the Recreational Sports Facility will present their new insights about older adult fitness and people with mobility issues and their recent purchase of new fitness equipment. Public Health Professor William Satariano will present his collaboration with New Media Center associate director, Greg Neimeier, on mobilitySpeakers: Matt Grigorieff, Coordinator, ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: $10 General, Free for UC Berkeley
How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do"Stereotype threat" is a problem that pervades American life, according to Claude Steele, an internationally recognized social psychologist and professor at Stanford University. An afternoon with Dr. Steele promises to be insightful and engaging.Speaker: Dr. Claude Steele, StanfordSibley Auditorium
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Predicting and Preventing Asteroid Impacts: The B612 Foundation Sentinel Space TelescopeThe B612 Foundation is building the Sentinel Space Telescope, an infrared space telescope to be launched in July 2018 that will find and track over 500 thousand Near Earth Asteroids. I will discuss what it takes to find, track, and deflect asteroids to protect our planet.Speaker: Ed Lu, B612 Foundation
Join us for a late-afternoon conversation with world-renowned psychotherapy authors on therapeutic ventures on the screen and on the page Speakers: Irvin Yalom, world-famous psychiatrist and author of "When Nietzsche Wept", "Lying on the Couch", "The Schopenhauer Cure", "Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy"Yael Hedaya, screenwriter for the critical acclaimed ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Automobile Electronics and Electrical Vehicles1. Automotive Engine and Drive Train Control Electronics: Ranjit Deshpande, VP of Engineering of Renesas2. Plug-in Electric Vehicles and Infrastructure at GM: Dr Frankie James, Managing Director of GM Advanced Technology, General MotorsThis talk describes GM's approach to plug-in electric vehicle charging infrastructure. GM is collaborating with other stakeholders to ...
Where: San JoseCost: Free
The New GoldThe New Leaders Initiative is hosting the next installment of its Rooted and Rising series, entitled "Water – the New Gold?". The discussion will include Brower Youth Award winner Martin Figueroa, UC-Berkeley student activist Angélica Salceda, and Colin Bailey of Environmental Justice Coalition for Water. This event will explore contemporary ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Human Evolution as Revealed by the Neandertal GenomeRichard E. (Ed) Green is an assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz. He's a researcher in the exciting field of ancient DNA, where DNA from fossils are extracted, sequenced, and compared to genomes of living species. He led the analysis of DNA extracted from the 40,000 year ...
Understanding spatial patterns of biodiversity is critical for conservation planning, particularly given the need to prioritize efforts in the face of rapid habitat loss and human-induced climatic change. Biodiversity and endemism are traditionally measured using species counts and ranges. However, investigation of patterns of species distributions alone misses out on ...
