Students in Professor Keltner’s “Human Happiness” class produced short videos this spring on what makes them happy. A panel of judges named, as first-place winner, “Bill’s Story,” about a paper doll who learns about the relative value of wealth, status and social connections.
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Public policy Dean Henry Brady promotes election polling to make more voices heard
May 15, 2012: UCTV’s “Prime Vote” features Henry Brady’s video commentary, Don’t Hang Up! Why Voters Should Respond to Pollsters,”as he makes a case fo folks to stay on the line and make their opinions heard, especially in an electoral season increasingly dominated by rich donors and highly paid lobbyists.
Commencement Convocation sends 2012 graduates out into the world
May 14, 2012: Joyous graduates, their friends and families filled Edwards Track Stadium in a swirl of blue and gold on Saturday, as they celebrated their graduation as UC Berkeley’s Class of 2012 and heard Google leader Eric Schmidt and Chancellor Robert Birgeneau send them on their way. With video and slideshow.
Floating robots use GPS-enabled smartphones to track water flow
May 9, 2012: A fleet of 100 floating robots took a trip down the Sacramento River on May 9, in a field test organized by UC Berkeley engineers. The devices, equipped with GPS-enabled smartphones, demonstrated the next generation of water-monitoring technology, promising to transform the way government agencies track one of the state’s most precious resources.
Tyrone Hayes premieres in new documentary on coming water crisis
May 8, 2012: Integrative biology professor Tyrone Hayes joins Erin Brockovich in a documentary, “Last Call at the Oasis,” that’s already getting praise for its discussion of a coming global water crisis. Directed by Jessica Yu & produced by the same people who created “An Inconvenient Truth,” the documentary opened May 4 in New York and Los Angeles and comes to the Bay Area May 11.
Bruce Cain on UCTV to talk campaign finance, polling
May 8, 2012:
UCDC’s Bruce Cain talks with UCTV’s “Prime Vote” series about the era of PACS and who’s financing the 2012 election.
Scientists core into Clear Lake to explore past climate change
May 3, 2012: One of the oldest lakes in the world, Clear Lake has deep sediments that contain a record of the climate and local plants and animals going back perhaps 500,000 years. UC Berkeley scientists are drilling cores from the sediments to explore this history and fine-tune models for predicting the fate of today’s flora and fauna in the face of global warming and pressure from a growing human population.
UC Berkeley class prepares disabled students for competitive job market
April 23, 2012: If it’s a tough job market out there for able-bodied college graduates, imagine how employment prospects might look to students with cerebral palsy or a muscular or neurodegenerative disease. That’s why a dozen UC Berkeley students are enrolled in “Professional Development and Disability,” a unique course that is teaching them how to market their disabilities as strengths.
Bears “adopt” Brooklyn 4th graders to promote college success
April 17, 2012:
UC Berkeley has “adopted” a classroom of 4th graders at Bensonhurst Elementary School, P.S. 247, in Brooklyn as part of the school’s College Partnership Program. A group of Cal ambassadors recently met via Skype with some of the youngsters, telling them about life on campus.
Space Sciences Lab learns more about colorful auroras
April 17, 2012: Using high resolution satellite imagery, scientists at UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory are learning more about how the aurora borealis, or the “Northern Lights,” move across the sky. SSL physicist Chris Chaston tells Inside Science TV that, because of increasing activity on the sun, next year the colorful light show may be visible as far south as Minnesota.
Students’ ‘Acopio’ startup uses IT tools to assist struggling coffee farmers
April 13, 2012: Coffee production is an $80 billion industry worldwide, yet rural coffee farmers struggle to break even. Three Berkeley grad students — two from the I School and a third from Haas — have founded the social venture Acopio (“harvest” in Spanish), using information-management tools to help improve the bottom line for coffee producers in the developing world.
ChronoZoom: A deep dive into the history of everything
March 14, 2012: Working with eight UC Berkeley students and with resources from Microsoft Research Connections, geologist Walter Alvarez has created a new piece of Web-based software that allows students, researchers and the general public to cruise through cosmic timelines. Called ChronoZoom, it could help students visualize the sweep of history.
Scientists tap the genius of babies and youngsters to make computers smarter
March 12, 2012: People often wonder if computers make children smarter. UC Berkeley scientists are asking the reverse question: Can children make computers smarter? And their answer appears to be ‘yes’ as they tap the cognitive smarts of babies, toddlers and preschoolers to program computers to think more like humans.
Student video highlights a welcoming campus for military vets
February 28, 2012: “Foot-print”, a short film by students in the Cal Veterans Group, provides a glimpse of life at UC Berkeley for veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Some 300 vets are here today, twice as many as when the campus, in 2008, launched a new program to welcome them with outreach and orientation, financial-aid guidance and special workshops and classes.
MCB grad-student parody video wins 2012 ‘lab grammy’
February 27, 2012: A music video by molecular and cell-biology grad-student Mark Grabiner and his colleagues at Berkeley has been voted 2012 Science Parody of the Year, given by the professional journal BioTechniques. Their entry — “Grad School I Love You, But You’re Bringing Me Down” — features a manic, orange-haired puppet in a lab coat.
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