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The prolific director/playwright Stan Lai comes home to the Berkeley campus to talk about contemporary theater, culture and creativity in Asia and the United States — and what the world would be like without theater.
Tag: China
I School grad student profiles rural Chinese Internet users
June 11, 2012:
China has more than half a billion Internet users, 136 million of whom live in rural areas. School of Information PhD student Elisa Oreglia, in an award-winning ethnographic study, looks at how older, less-educated villagers — many of whom claim to be Web illiterate — often become comfortable with computers by observing their younger family members.
New discovery is key to understanding neutrino transformations
March 8, 2012:
The joint China-U.S. Daya Bay experiment to explore the multiple personalities of neutrinos announced its first results today (Thursday, Mar. 8), paving the way for further experiments to determine whether neutrinos and antineurtinos have similar split identities. If not, it may provide a clue to why the universe has more matter than antimatter, and thus why we exist.
Wen-hsin Yeh receives Humboldt Research Award
February 9, 2012:
China scholar receives Humboldt Research Award
College of Engineering launches collaboration with Shanghai innovation hub
November 15, 2011:
The College of Engineering announced Nov. 11 a new partnership with the Shanghai Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park, one of China’s top high-tech parks, to develop a platform for expanding industrial and academic research collaborations in Asia and fostering global learning opportunities for UC Berkeley students.
Mu-ming Poo nurtures young neuroscientists in Shanghai
August 3, 2011:
Neuroscientist Mu-ming Poo “leads a double life,” according to a piece in the journal Nature. He spends three-quarters of his time doing research on campus, but for the past decade has spent one day a week nurturing budding neuroscientists at the Institute of Neurosciences in Shanghai.
UC Berkeley psychologists bring science of happiness to China
July 15, 2010:
As the ranks of China’s millionaires continue to grow, the pursuit of wealth in the nation is fast outpacing mental health and wellbeing, according to psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who are seeking to correct that imbalance and spread the science of happiness in China.
Campus hosts “Tsinghua Week”
March 19, 2010:
Nobel Prize winners, faculty, administrators and students from the University of California, Berkeley, and Tsinghua University in Beijing will meet April 5-7 to strengthen academic and cultural ties. They will explore collaborations in fields ranging from science, engineering and transportation to architecture, public policy, psychology, philosophy, history, social welfare and higher education.
