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  • Broadcast highlights: Steve Chu nominated as energy secretarySpring 2009 (6:34 min)

    Poisoned African lions on 60 Minutes; Dan Kammen discusses carbon capture; Chancellor Birgeneau lobbies for undocumented students on Good Morning America; Stephen Hinshaw talks about "The Triple Bind" facing America's girls on the Today Show; John Coates examines the possibility of life on Mars; Jay Keasline makes an apperarance on Comedy Central's Cobert Report, and more.

  • Broadcast highlights: Steve Chu nominated as energy secretaryFall 2008 (7:10 min)

    President-elect Barack Obama nominates UC Berkeley professors Steve Chu to be energy secretary and Christina Romer to head his Council of Economic Advisors; Laura Tyson and Jacob Hackeron discuss the economic challenges facing the new administration; Dan Kammen's "Ecopolis" series; "invisibility" research, biology-inspired robots, and more.

  • The Science of Sleep on 60 MinutesSpring 2008 (10:33 min)

    Professor Matt Walker tells 60 Minutes about new discoveries in the "Science of Sleep"; UC Berkeley courses webcast to the world; student veterans welcomed at Berkeley; researchers send satellites to look for the cause of auroras; Berkeley professors study the changing status of plants and animals in our ecosystems, and more.