Exploring the Intersection of Community Development and Healthy (Child) DevelopmentThere is growing interest in the social determinants of healthy child development, and more specifically, in understanding the ways that low-income social environments can have a negative impact on child development. This presentation by Douglas Jutte will describe an exciting research initiative to examine efforts to improve low-income neighborhoods and ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
Evolutionary Genetics in the Crush of GenomicsThe melding of Darwin's fundamental theory, descent with modification via natural selection with Mendel's particulate theory of inheritance, provided a simple and fertile foundation for the elaboration of population genetics theory in the last century. The lack of direct observations of genetic variation in natural populations fostered creative investigations of ...
Where: BerkeleyCost: Free
THE SIDE EFFECTS OF RESEARCH: MAKING ROOM FOR THE UNEXPECTEDDr. Derek Padilla from Santa Rosa Junior College will discuss some of the unintended consequences that research has on the student researcher. From developing fundamental math skills to analyzing bell hooks with a tomato farmer, this talk will focus on what you don't realize you learned until long after you ...
Where: Rohnert ParkCost: Free
Saving Time and Energy through Bus-Rapid-Transit Project Around the WorldAs the cost of providing space and energy for personal transportation options have increased both on the capital side as well as its energy footprint and consequences, mass transportation is gaining priority for developing and developed countries. In this presentation, we will provide a few examples of the successful and ...
Where: StanfordCost: Free
Seeing Through the Big Bang into Another World? USF Welcomes Sir Roger Penrose Universally recognized mathematician, cosmologist, and physicist to give public lecture at the University of San Francisco (USF). Recent Results from WMAP Satellite and Planck Space Platform. Is our world just one of an infinite succession of universes? How can we tell?A new theory proposes that what we presently regard as the ...
Where: San FranciscoCost: Free
Our East Bay GeoheritageOur East Bay rocks and landforms are libraries of "deep time," bearing stories of the fascinating structure and surprisingly active geologic history of our remarkable region. With examples of rock exposures, fossils, and landforms in our neighborhoods, this talk will explore how we can better recognize and celebrate our geoheritage ...
Amy Stewart is an award-winning author of six books on the perils and pleasures of the natural world. In her New York Times bestseller The Drunken Botanist, she explores the dizzying array of herbs, flowers, trees, fruits and fungi that humans have contrived to transform into alcohol. Learn more about ...
