18 May 2011
Amory Lovins Speaks at 2011 Commencement
"Recovering physicist" Amory Lovins, an innovator in energy and many related fields, has advised the energy and other industries for four decade, as well as the U.S. Departments of Energy and Defense. His work in more than 50 countries has been recognized by the “Alternative Nobel,†Blue Planet, Volvo, Zayed, Onassis, Nissan, Shingo, and Mitchell Prizes, MacArthur and Ashoka Fellowships, the Benjamin Franklin and Happold Medals, 11 honorary doctorates, and the Heinz, Lindbergh, National Design, and World Technology Awards.
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26 April 2011
Alumni Challenge
Join the next generation of alumni who are committed to keeping Cal the No. 1 public university in the world. Last year’s New Alumni Challenge was an unprecedented success, with more than 5,600 alumni contributing over $850,000 to programs across the Berkeley campus!
Now is your chance to double your gift to Cal through the challenge. Even small contributions will go a long way. GIVE NOW to DOUBLE your gift.
Who’s eligible?
All alums – undergraduate and graduate from the Classes of 2006 to 2010, PLUS all current undergraduate and graduate students who graduate in spring 2011 are eligible.
What is matched?
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 3:27
04 March 2011
A Vision for a Healthy and Fit Nation
The College of Natural Resources and the School of Public Health cordially invite you to attend a lecture by Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin Surgeon General of the United States
March 17, 2011
10:30 a.m
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 1:31
17 February 2011
Green Lit at SF Green Film Festival
Lauren Selman ’07, Conservation Resources Studies with her Senior Project Advisor, Professor Emeritus John Hurst.
One of the biggest challenges environmentalists face is effectively communicating and implementing change. CNR alumna Lauren Selman is tacking those challenges head on. Only three years out of college, Lauren is an entrepreneur extraordinaire – she founded ReelGreenMedia, an environmental consulting and media company dedicated to environmentally friendly production and messaging. Lauren’s business provides services and resources that ensure eco-friendly production practices for film, television, radio and theater around the world.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 1:19
15 February 2011
Berkeley Green Chemistry Conference
The Philomathia Foundation Conference 2011
Green Chemistry: Collaborative Approaches and New Solutions
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 3:24
15 February 2011
Frances Moore Lappé
Living Democracy and Social Justice: Everyday Connections Between Global Hunger, Environmental Sustainability and Food Policies
Thursday, April 7, 2011
5:00 - 6:00 pm Reception
6:00 - 7:30 pm Presentation
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 2:23
10 February 2011
Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and a land ethic for our time
Join us for the west coast premiere of Green Fire!
See the first full-length, high-definition documentary film ever made about legendary conservationist Aldo Leopold and his environmental legacy! Today, Leopold’s ethic inspires projects nationwide that connect people and land.
Date & Location:
Monday, February 28th,
Berkeley Art Museum and
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Time: 5:30pm, reception and science discussion to follow at Berkeley Alumni House
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 5:28
02 February 2011
U.C. Berkeley renews Peace Corps push on 50th birthday
Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times
The University of California, Berkeley, is urging its graduates to join the Peace Corps as that organization celebrates its 50th anniversary.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 3:13
20 January 2011
Professor gives DOE webinar on Photosynthesis and Fuels
By: Sunita Satyapal, Energy.gov
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 2:44
20 January 2011
Guidelines for Managing Oak Rangelands – A Webinar Series
Dates: March 15, 22. 29 and April 5, 2011 (10 am to 12 noon); Field Trips on April 16 (Sierra REC) and April 30 (Hopland REC)
Background: California’s oak woodlands cover 10 percent of the state and are its most biologically diverse broad habitat. It also is as an important location for agricultural and other economic enterprises. With 80 percent in private ownership, continued resource sustainability is in the hands of private landowners. This webinar series is designed to create an awareness of the importance of managing oak woodlands and to present alternative management strategies for landowners to consider. It will be presented around the concepts in the University of California’s publication, “Guidelines for Managing California’s Hardwood Rangelands.â€
Audience: Oak woodland landowners, certified range managers and registered professional foresters.
Format: A four part series of 2-hour lectures will be offered on-line through a link to Adobe Connect. In addition to web-based audio and visual educational material, participants can choose to attend a Saturday field trip to ANR's Sierra (4/16/11) or Hopland (4/30/11) Research and Extension Center at the end of the series for field demonstrations of concepts presented in the webinar. All registered participants will receive a copy of the ANR publication, "Guidelines for Managing California’s Hardwood Rangelands." A complete list of topics and speakers is provided on the website (see: http://ucanr.org/oakwebinar).
Registration: There is a $25 fee to register for the webinar, and people interested in registering can do so at http://ucanr.org/oakwebinar. People need to register on-line to get the weblink for the session and publication material. Registered participants will receive follow-up log-in instructions.
Flyer: You can download a flyer about the webinar here.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 9:44
07 December 2010
CNR Alumni Association Career Panel
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 1:56
21 October 2010
Morgan Hall Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
The college recently completed renovation of lab spaces in the lower level of Morgan Hall. The project has been submitted for LEED certification. A private ribbon cutting ceremony and reception to honor project supporters was held Friday September 24.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 3:06
15 September 2010
The Philomathia Symposium at Berkeley
By Lynn Yarris, Berkeley Lab, and Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations
Can we emulate the ability of green plants to harness solar energy? Can we create intelligent materials, buildings and even entire communities that generate their own energy? Will a price on greenhouse gases reduce emissions? Can the technology that produced an inexpensive anti-malaria drug also be used to extract fuel from agricultural waste?
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 1:33
26 August 2010
Unusual Suspects: Resurgence, resilience and regeneration in the face of Climate Change
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 4:54
20 August 2010
Dirt! The Movie
By: Anneli Rufus, East Bay Express
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 9:25
03 August 2010
Beahrs ELP Celebrated 10th Anniversary on July 8th
On July 8th, the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP) kicked off its 10th anniversary celebration at the Alumni House with keynote speaker, Carl Pope (Chairman, Sierra Club), and a panel of distinguished ELP alumni on the topic: Environmental Leadership: A Force that Persists. Robin Marsh, Beahrs ELP co-director, welcomed the packed House by sharing a brief history of the ELP since its inception in 2010.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 3:38
02 August 2010
Zivnuska Hall Opening at UC’s Forestry Camp in Meadow Valley, CA
Cal Alumni foresters, faculty, staff, and friends of the College of Natural Resources gathered on July 17, 2010 for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new 1,400 square foot computer lab/multi-purpose building at camp.
More than 125 donors, including the Zivnuska family, Cal Alumni foresters, and several
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 9:12
03 June 2010
Exploring the Sierra with Naturalist John Muir Laws
* Date: 6/29/2010
* Event Location: Berkeley REI
* Event Fee: Free
* Time: 7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (PDT)
* Presenter: John (Jack) Muir Laws
* Group Size: 75
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 5:05
24 May 2010
Agriculture Briefs: Presentation on pollinators
Three UC specialists will speak June 5 on the status of Sonoma County's bees and other pollinators.
The panelists will speak at 2:30 p.m. at the Bouverie Preserve near Glen Ellen. A cocktail reception with the experts will follow from 4 to 6 p.m.
Scientists have been studying causes for the decline in bee populations in the U.S., as well as the impact that the loss of bees could have on native ecosystems and food supplies around the world.
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 4:20
06 May 2010
CNR Homecoming 2010
510-642-6707 or donnachan@berkeley.edu.
Friday-Saturday, October 8-9, 2010
Come back to campus and enjoy all the festivities being planned for CNR alumni parents, friends and students.
Join us in the lovely Giannini Hall lobby and enjoy continental breakfast with Peets coffee, fresh pastries, and other refreshments during the State of the College Address by Dean J. Keith Gilless Giannini Hall Lobby 9:30a.m.
CNR Faculty & Alumni Homecoming Lectures
There are a variety of faculty lectures to choose from all across campus, including current CNR Faculty! This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the wonderful research being done at CNR and the opportunity to ask questions during the interactive Q&A session following each.
Friday, October 8, 2010 11am
Banatao Auditorium,
Sutardja Dai Hall
Professor Peggy Lemaux, Plant & Microbial Biology
“Food, Famine and the Future of Farmingâ€
Friday,October 8 4:00-5:30 pm
Bancroft Hotel
2680 Bancroft Way
Neal Ewald '78, Green Diamond Resource Company
S.J. Hall Lecture
"Declaring Peace in Timber Country: Sustainable Forests in a Perpetual Businessâ€
Saturday, October 9 10:30 am
Alumni House
Professor Andreas Stahl, Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology
“Fat Chance:How exploring the mechanisms of cellular lipid uptake may change the ways we treat obesity related diseasesâ€
Saturday, October 9 1:30 pm
Banatao Auditorium Sutardja Dai Hall
Professor Kimberly Tallbear, Assistant Professor of Science, Technology and Environmental Policy
“'Our DNA is Your Property?' Reconfiguring Ethics in Genome Researchâ€
CNR Alumni Association Picnic
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 5:43
04 March 2010
Former President Bill Clinton and Our Very Own Jenn Jehnsen
Photo by Peg Skorpinski
Jenn Jehnsen is a CNR Student majoring in Environmental Sciences. She is also minoring in Global Poverty and Practice via the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
She was given the opportunity of presenting a gift to former President Bill Clinton from the Blum Center for Developing Economices because she is a peer adviser for her minor, Global Poverty and Practice. She presented the gift after Clinton's speech on what global citizenship means. "It was really exciting to share that moment with president Clinton because he had
just talked about what global citizenship means, and I have been trying to
figure that out myself ever since my trip to Uganda. I also love that
President Clinton inspired us as young people, because we are the
generation that can bring change", says Jenhsen.
She spent the Summer of 2009 as an intern with the Uganda Village Project (UVP), working as a team leader for the "Healthy Villages Initiative". The Healthy Villages Initiative is an aims to take a grassroots approach to addresssing rural healthcare and public health in Uganda. Its main goal is to improve the provisions of healthcare and access to preventative health education to underserved populations in the Iganga District, one of the poorest districts in Uganda. "Through Healthy Villages Initiative, UVP targets the primary health risks of the region at the village level, working with the District Health Office (DHO) of Iganga, with Sub-County Officials, and with local Health Center Staff", describes Jehnsen. " UVP launched Healthy Villages in five 'pilot' villages during the summer of 2009, and will eventually expand to work
in a total of 70 chosen villages. All villages are based around the same
five health centers, and all fall into the bottom quartile in sanitation
and access to clean water".
Her team sold insecticide-treated mosquito nets at a subsidized price
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Posted by Pinar Aybar at 2:51
14 August 2001
SUVIMAX Study (Antioxidant Supplementation to a Population in France)
The Department of Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology presents a special seminar given by Serge Hercberg, M.D., Ph.D., Director of National Institute of Nutrition, France (INSERM). For more information, please call (510) 642-6490.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:46
30 January 2002
The 2002 William Main Distinguished Visitor Program begins in February.
For more information on this Center for Forestry course and lecture series, go here
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:33
01 February 2002
Register by Feb. 7 for the Love Your Body conference
Conference Title: "Love Your Body: Promoting Positive Body Image & Preventing Eating Disorders in Children Adolescents and Young Adults"
Presented by: Center for Weight and Health, University of California, Berkeley
When: February 14, 2002, 8 am-4:45 pm
Location: Clark Kerr Campus, University of California, Berkeley
Registration: $50 (includes meals and materials) by February 7, 2002
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:33
05 March 2002
MARCH 13 Career Information Night: Environmental Careers
Information Night on Environmental Careers
Join alumni and professionals to discuss career options in a wide range of environmental fields.
Presented by: Career Center and Environmental Sciences Student Association
When: March 13, 2002, 5:00-7:30 pm
Career panel 5-6
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:22
12 April 2002
Doris Howes Calloway Memorial Lecture, MAY 2
Doris Howes Calloway Memorial Lecture:
Molecular Physiology of Weight Regulation in Mice and Humans
by Rudolph L. Leibel, M.D.
May 2, 2002, 4:00 PM, Morgan Hall, Room 101
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:19
11 June 2002
Paul Ludden to Become CNR's New Dean
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:14
02 January 2003
San Diego Conference Tackles Child Obesity Epidemic
by Sarah Yang
Berkeley - The start of the new year is traditionally when many of us begin working off holiday meals and resolving to eat healthier and exercise more.
But for an unprecedented number of children in the United States, being overweight is a struggle the whole year through. And experts say California is the state with the highest number of children who are overweight or obese.
Next week, this growing crisis will bring together nearly 1,000 educators, public health professionals and nutrition experts for the 2003 California Childhood Obesity Conference in San Diego. Speakers will include U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Richard Carmona; Dr. Francine Kaufman, president of the American Diabetes Association; and Eric Bost, under secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
The three-day conference, held Jan. 6-8, is being convened in response to the serious consequences of childhood obesity. The Center for Weight and Health at the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Department of Health Services' Primary Care and Family Health Division are co-hosting the event.
"We'll be exploring how environmental, family and clinical approaches can address the childhood obesity epidemic in our California communities," said Pat Crawford, co-director of the Center for Weight and Health and cooperative extension specialist at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources. "All three approaches need to work in concert if we are going to effectively stem the increase of overweight children."
Since the first California Childhood Obesity Conference was held in March 2001, new studies and media reports have shined the spotlight on a topic that health professionals have been noticing over the past few decades.
In October 2002, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued results from a 1999-2000 survey, which found that nationwide, more than 15 percent of children ages 6 to 19 were overweight. That figure shows a 200 percent increase over the past three decades.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 3:05
07 July 2003
Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug to Speak July 10
Norman E. Borlaug
Free public lecture
July 10, 7:30-9:00 pm
145 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
Norman E. Borlaug was awarded the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for developing methods to help the world's poorest nations feed themselves. Born of Norwegian descent, Dr. Borlaug was raised near Cresco, a small farming community in northeast Iowa. He earned a B.S. in forestry and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in plant pathology from the University of Minnesota. From 1942 to 1944, Dr. Borlaug worked as a microbiologist for E.I. Dupont de Nemours Foundation, in charge of research on industrial and agricultural bactericides, fungicides, and preservatives.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:23
12 October 2003
Don Dahlsten Memorial
Public Memorial Planned for Don Dahlsten
The Don Dahlsten memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, October 12, 2003, at noon on the east lawn of Giannini Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. A Giant sequoia will be planted in his honor following the ceremony on the northwest lawn of Giannini Hall facing Tolman Hall.
RSVP is requested to memorial@nature.berkeley.edu.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 6:03
28 October 2003
Federal, Academic Scientists Partner to Streamline Environmental Research
by Kathryn Stelljes
Berkeley — A new era of scientific collaboration for the benefit of the environment begins today (Tuesday, Oct. 28) at the University of California, Berkeley, as the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) holds its first planning meeting to set goals for the next five years.
This unit and others like it nationwide establish a streamlined method for matching the research and technical assistance needs and funding of federal agencies with the scientific interests and expertise of university faculty and graduate students. The Californian CESU, hosted by the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley, brings together nine University of California campuses, three California State University campuses, and six federal agencies.
While other CESUs have been established for a dozen other geographic regions nationwide, the Californian has several unique traits.
“The Californian CESU provides the largest scope of collaboration among educational institutions,†said Steven Beissinger, chair of the College of Natural Resources’ Department of Environmental Studies, Policy and Management. Beissinger and professor Craig Moritz, director of UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, proposed its establishment, hosted by UC Berkeley.
Other leaders of the UC Berkeley team include Barbara Allen-Diaz, executive associate dean of the College of Natural Resources, and James Shevock, a research coordinator with the National Park Service’s Pacific West region.
“The potential benefit of this arrangement to the environment is huge. California has a tremendous amount of public land managed by the federal government, along with the greatest number of endangered species on the mainland and a population that includes one of every nine people in the U.S.,†said Beissinger. “The CESU provides a way to help maintain biodiversity and protect ecosystems by providing expertise to the land managers who need scientific information.â€
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 5:59
11 November 2009
Insect Museum Launches “Essig Brunch†on Fridays
[the stick insect Epidares nolimetangere from the rainforests of northwest Borneo, taken by Yu Zeng, a student in IB]
Instead of a big fuzzy panda bear beckoning as the symbol of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund), how about the giant flower-loving fly, or better yet, the California night-stalking tiger beetle? Images of iconic creatures such as the panda are commonplace in our society, and like many of our most venerated animals (think dinosaurs, puppies, and birds), they are vertebrates. But when’s the last time you heard of a “Save the Bugs†campaign, or a movie about a cartoon millipede? Why this bias against the spineless? It could be because it’s a lot easier to cuddle with a cat or dog than a hairy pine borer (it’s a beetle), or because we ourselves are vertebrates, and, well, we like us and things similar to us. Whatever the reason, Berkeley’s entomology students are on a mission to gain a little respect for the insects and other arthropods that dominate the earth, and their first salvo is the creation of a no-spines-allowed seminar series.
If popularity was measured in terms of pure diversity, the insects would be prom queen. With 1 million documented species and an estimated 9 million more awaiting discovery and description, insects comprise half of all the known biodiversity on Earth. The University of California’s own Essig Museum of Entomology houses over 5 million of the Berkeley Natural History Museums’ 12 million specimens. One of these museums, the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (MVZ), runs a highly successful seminar series dubbed “MVZ Lunch†on Wednesday afternoons, drawing guest speakers from around the world to discuss their research on ecology and evolution. And while the entomology students enjoy attending these talks, they have decided to answer with a seminar of their own in order to bring a little taxonomic parity to the table.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 2:00
05 May 2005
CNR Awards Ceremony and Reception
May 5th, 3:00-5:00
Alumni House (Bechtel and Toll rooms)
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:41
05 May 2005
College Honors Two with CNR Citation
This month, the college honored two individuals for their extraordinary commitment and accomplishments in 2005. The CNR Citation, the highest honor of the college, was awarded for the first time to two deserving recipients, Iona "Rocky" Main and Helen Ullrich.
Rocky Main and her family were instrumental in creating and endowing the William Main Distinguished Visitor Program, an academic program that has made, and continues to make, significant contributions to the study of forest and natural resources management. Main has made her impact elsewhere on campus, as well. She has served as a trustee of the University Library, a leader of her alumni class, and a benefactor of the popular "Lunch Poems" series.
Many of her nominators stressed Main's personal supportiveness of faculty and recognized that, as one supporter put it, she "has sustained a grace and civility that helps us to appreciate the very best in our institution."
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:37
22 May 2005
Fall 2005 Commencement Address by Chief Oren Lyons
On May 22, Chief Oren Lyons delivered the following commencement address to CNR's class of 2005.
Introduction by Executive Associate Dean Barbara Allen-Diaz
Commencement address by Chief Oren Lyons
INTRODUCTION by Executive Associate Dean Barbara Allen-Diaz
It is a great pleasure for me to introduce Oren Lyons, our Commencement Speaker today. Oren Lyons is Faithkeeper and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. Chief Lyons is Professor of American Studies at State University of New York at Buffalo.
We are honored today to have the opportunity to hear Chief Lyons speak. He was raised in the traditional lifeways of the Iroquois on the Seneca and Onondaga reservations in northern New York State. He served in the U.S. Army. He graduated from Syracuse University of Fine Arts where he immediately began a long career in commercial art and became a well known American Indian artist.
Since returning to the Onondaga in 1970, Professor Lyons has been a leading advocate for American Indian causes, both nationally and internationally. He has participated in meetings of indigenous peoples held in Geneva under the auspices of the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations; he serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Forums of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival; and he is a principal leader in the traditional Circle of Indian Elders which is a council of grassroots leadership of major Indian Nations of North America.
Chief Lyons has spoken widely about spirituality, environment, natural laws, human rights and the ethics of authority. He has received numerous honors and awards, including an honorary doctor of law from Syracuse University.
In addition, Chief Lyons has been a lifelong Lacrosse player, a game that was invented by the Iroquois people. He was All-American in Lacrosse and inducted into the Lacrosse National Hall of Fame in 1993.
Oren Lyons perhaps has set the stage best of all for all of you graduating here today when he said, "When we walk upon Mother Earth, we always plant our feet carefully because we know the faces of our future generations are looking up at us from beneath the ground. We never forget them."
Please join me in welcoming Oren Lyons, professor and Chief of the Turtle Clan of the Onondaga Nation.
ADDRESS by Chief Oren Lyons
(Chief Lyons greeted the audience in his native language.)
I said thank you for being well. That’s our greeting. I am Onondaga, I am from the Haudenosaunee, called the Iroquois and I am also of the Family of the Wolf. And so I greet you. In my initial greetings, it is our protocol to extend our first greetings and respect to the original peoples of this land here: Pomos, Yuroks, and Chumash and others. They are the original landholders of where we stand and it is our protocol first to greet them and to honor them.
And my second greeting is to the Graduation Class of 2005, at this great university in the College of Natural Resources. My greetings to you and what you represent. You are like my grandchildren. (When you get to be my age, everybody is your grandchild.) So I greet you.
Then my next greetings are to the Chancellor of this University and to the Dean who has done so well, and to the faculty and staff and all of the visiting colleagues, and to these professors that work so hard for this particular day. This is our day as well as yours. It’s an accomplishment. You are like our children. We want to see you off. To all of my colleagues who are here, I extend my greetings to all of you and to your work. What is our work? Our work is instruction, our work is education, inclusively, large, inspired. And our work is to keep education a passion, as was mentioned by one of the student speakers. Passion, of course, is important and we don’t want to stifle that.
When the Haudesonauee meet, whether it is a large gathering or a small gathering, we have several greetings. I think it is apropos that I tell you what these greetings are. It begins with the people. When we meet, and these are called The Words Before All Words, we give these greetings. We say to all the people gathered, “We are grateful and happy to see you healthy and gathered here.†We also think about all of the people who are not here, who cannot be here for whatever reason, and then we think about the peoples of the world as they go about their business. And we think how wonderful this is. So we put our minds together as one, and we give a big thanksgiving for all the peoples of the world.
Then we look at Mother Earth and we say this is our mother and we give a big thanksgiving for our mother, with all our love, because that is what mothers gather: great love. And we look at Mother Earth and we think of how she supports us, helps us survive and keeps all life going. How wonderful, powerful, all enduring is our Mother the Earth and we give a thanksgiving for the earth itself.
And then we move to everything that grows on the earth, from the grasses to the medicines to the bushes. We think of all of this and what they do for the earth and how they support us. And we put our mind around the world and we try to see all of these places and we give a thanksgiving for all of the growing things of the earth.
Then we move to the trees, our grandfathers. I was so pleased that we came under the shade and shelter of these powerful elders that surround us here. These are our relations. Look how you gather in their shade, how you keep cool. Look how clean the air is and look about. These trees are listening. They hear what we have to say when we have a thanksgiving. They are listening. So we give a big thanksgiving for all of the trees of the world. We acknowledge their work and we acknowledge their leader which is the maple, the great chief of the trees.
Then we move on to everything that moves about and runs about in the forest with four legs. And we think about them and how they sustain us and how they are related to us and how we depend upon them, and how they have supported our life for so long and provided our identities. (I am a wolf.) We give thanksgiving for all of these 4-footed creatures for they sustain us and we are dependent.
And then we move to what lives in the trees and flies above—all of the birds. How powerful they are! How the song of a wren can lift our hearts when we’re down. They wake us in the morning, they plant seeds, they sing to us, they move about. They are messengers. And the leader, the great eagle, flies closest to the Creator and carries our word. We revere his feathers, we revere the hawks, we revere the hummingbird. These are our relatives and we give a big thanksgiving for them.
And then we move on to the waters of the earth, from the very beautiful springs to the seas. Anybody that has seen a spring and looked at that crystal-clear water and can see everything on the bottom knows it’s beautiful and pure. And that’s the way we want your minds to be, as pure as those crystal springs. Do not pollute your minds! Do not throw dirt into that spring. That’s your mind. Keep it clean. Keep it pure so that you can see. From those springs, we go on to thank the streams, the rivers, the lakes and the mighty oceans themselves, these great waters. The first law of life is water. We are water. We are born in water, we are water. Without it, there is no life. So we give a big thanksgiving as we put our minds together for all of the waters of the earth.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:19
02 June 2005
CWH now jointly administered by CNR and SPH
A recent celebration announced the partnership between the School of Public Health and the College of Natural Resources as co-directors over the Center for Weight and Health.
On Thursday, June 2, CNR Dean Paul Ludden and Stephen Shortell, dean of the School of Public Health, announced a new partnership between the schools to jointly administer UC Berkeley's Center for Weight and Health.
The Center for Weight and Health co-sponsors the largest nationwide conference on childhood obesity, the California Childhood Obesity Conference, and provides the most comprehensive resource on the subject though its extensive research.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:01
22 August 2005
Cal Still No. 1 National Public University
by Michelle Maitre
Magazine ranks Berkeley top public university, 20th among all colleges in country
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY has again ranked as the nation's best public university in U.S. News and World Report's annual list of top colleges.
The magazine's "America's Best Colleges" rankings, released today, are based on a formula that includes graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, peer review and other factors. UC Berkeley has held the top public spot for several years, occasionally tying with the University of Virginia.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:37
24 August 2005
Mexican woods offer a look at California forests’ past
by UC Division of Agriculture & Natural Resources
A largely unmanaged forest in Mexico holds lessons for improving the health of California wildlands, according to UC Berkeley fire science professor Scott Stephens.
His twice yearly research expeditions to the unspoiled Sierra de San Pedro Martir have convinced him that the forest management plans in California should be revised to improve the ecosystem’s resilience to insects, diseases, drought and catastrophic fires.
For seven years, Stephens has studied the Jeffrey Pine-mixed conifer forests in the mountainous national park of Baja California, named after the Christian martyr St. Peter. The mountain range is connected to the Laguna and San Jacinto Mountains of southwest California. The flora and fauna are similar to Southern California and eastern Sierra Nevada forests. The greatest difference is the time of the forests’ fire seasons. The majority of fires occur in summer in the Mexican forests, but fires are more common in California forests in the late summer and fall.
“When you are over there, with all the familiar shrubs and soils and trees, sometimes you have to remind yourself you’re in Mexico,†Stephens said.
A large portion of the 100,000-acre Mexican forest has never been harvested and has survived through centuries of natural fire cycles, making it a living example of what many California forests would be without the exploitive logging practices of earlier generations, fragmentation by development and disruption of natural fire cycles.
Fires burned naturally in Sierra San Pedro Martir
Until 1970, there was no fire suppression at all in the Sierra de San Pedro Martir. Today, only eight people are assigned to put out blazes by going in when smoke is spotted and cutting a line around the fire. In contrast, most California forest fires are managed aggressively with armies of firefighters, sophisticated equipment, helicopters and air tankers.
Vacation homes, developed camp grounds, lavish lodges, museums and shopping centers are not to be found in Mexico’s Martir. In California, many mountain areas have become populous tourist destinations. Twelve thousand people live in the vicinity of Big Bear Lake, where a local Web site, http://bigbear.us, claims there are more Mexican restaurants per capita than in the average Baja peninsula city. The population at Mammoth Lakes, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, is nearly 8,000 year round. The average cabin in Lake Arrowhead, known locally as the Alps of Southern California, costs more than $200,000.
Another influence on current California forest ecosystem is historical timber harvesting practices. Some 125 years ago, California and Nevada pioneers began logging the eastern Sierra Nevada and the San Jacinto, San Bernardino and Laguna mountains for mining and development.
“In the late 19th century, most of the trees in the eastern Sierra Nevada were used to support silver mining,†Stephens said. “The logging that took place before early Californians understood sustainable timber harvest practices created huge disturbances in the forest ecosystems that still affect those forests today.â€
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:34
30 September 2005
Networking 101: Students mix with alumni in environmental fields
Networking events can really help students with their career choices, and those who attended the Environmental Alumni & Students Mixer on Sept. 30 certainly got their share of information and resources.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:29
30 September 2005
Environmental Students and Alumni Mixer: 9/30/05
Friday, Sept. 30, 2005
5:00-7:00 PM
114 Morgan Hall (Lounge & Patio)
All students and alumni invited for some fun and information!
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 9:40
16 November 2005
Rosemary Gillespie receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Mentoring
by National Science Foundation
Rosemary Gillespie, professor of Insect Biology in ESPM, is one of 10 individuals who were awarded the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) on Nov. 16. The award includes a $10,000 grant for continued mentoring work.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 9:33
10 December 2005
Student research: different perspectives, common goals
The first joint undergraduate poster session with CNR and the College of Engineering was a hit with students, faculty, and staff.
Taking on the theme of Natural Bridges: Different Perspectives, Common Goals, the forum gave students in a variety of disciplines to showcase their work, which ranged from projects in progress, to completed honors projects.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 9:26
17 September 2005
CNR Celebrates 75th Anniversary of the Construction of Giannini Hall
On September 16, 2005, the College of Natural Resources celebrated Amadeo Peter Giannini's foresight and his generosity to the University of California and to agriculture in California and throughout the world.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 0:34
26 October 2009
Can business be the solution and not the problem?
Sally Jewell, President and CEO of REI, delivers the Fall 2009 Horace M. Albright Lecture in Conservation.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:40
02 September 2009
Homecoming at CNR 2009
Come back to Cal on October 2-4! You can register online and then check out who's coming.
Be sure to check out these fascinating lectures by CNR professors:
Friday, October 2
"Evolutionary Biology of Fungi: Human Pathogens"
John Taylor, Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology
9:30-10:30 am
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall
Some fungi specialize as parasites of animals, including humans. Two such species, Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii, cause valley fever, a potentially fatal flu-like illness that mostly affects rural residents in the Southwest. This seminar will focus on how we have found genes that show evidence of natural selection and might be important to preventing or treating the disease.
"The Buzz on Bees: Why We Need Them for Our Health"
Claire Kremen, Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Bechtel Engineering Center Sibley Auditorium
2:00 - 3:00 pm
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 1:58
30 April 2009
Connecting Communities through Conservation
The 2009 Horace Albright Lecture in Conservation
Greg Moore, Executive Director of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, discusses a pioneering model of community engagement and volunteerism in the stewardship of our Bay Area national parks and its implications for global conservation.
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Posted by Cyril at 5:50
28 January 2009
ANR Statewide Conference: “Defining Our Future: Putting Science to Work in an Interconnected Worldâ€
Attention CNR Academics & Staff:
Registration is now open for the ANR Statewide Conference, “Defining Our Future: Putting Science to Work in an Interconnected World,†at the Sacramento Doubletree on April 27-30, 2009.
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Posted by Cyril at 7:35
01 March 2009
Climate Action, Adaptation, & Job Creation in America:
Lessons from California
David Roland-Holst, professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, will speak on Climate Action, Adaptation, & Job Creation in America: Lessons from California at a special event for Washington, D.C.-area alumni and friends of the College of Natural Resources.
University of California Washington Center | Washington, D.C.
As the U.S. economy sinks deeper into crisis and the outlook for a warming planet looks ever bleaker, many pundits and politicians have pinned their hopes on a new, “green†vision of economic recovery. Are these hopes realistic or just rhetoric?
California's experience suggests that there need not be a tradeoff between economic growth and environmental progress, and the state offers lessons for a new generation of national policy.
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Posted by Cyril at 3:39
12 December 2008
Sustaining the Harvest: Creating Fine Wines on a Warming Planet
On Dec. 11, CNR hosted "Creating Fine Wines on a Warming Planet," a panel discussion on the future of the wine industry in the face of global warming. The panel featured College faculty Miguel Altieri, professor of agroecology, and Kent Daane, CE specialist in insect biology, as well as industry experts David Graves, co-founder of Saintsbury Vineyard, and Caleb Mosley, viticulturist at Ridge Vineyards. The panel discussion was followed by a special wine-tasting event.
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Posted by Cyril at 1:05
11 September 2008
Geochemist Garrison Sposito, a "legend" of chemistry
Professor Garrison Sposito (ESPM-Ecosystem Sciences) was one of 15 scientists and engineers honored in a special symposium of the American Chemical Society, entitled “Legends of Environmental Chemistry,†at its fall, 2008 annual meeting in Philadelphia.
Sposito is internationally recognized for his research on environmental aqueous geochemistry applied to terrestrial ecosystems, soils, and aquifers. His hundreds of publications and books in this area mark him as the world's foremost authority on surface coordination chemistry and transport in porous media. He is a Foreign Member of the French Academy of Agriculture, Horton Medal winner from the American Geophysical Union, and a Highly-Cited Researcher in the area of Ecology and the Environment by the Institute for Scientific Information.
Each “legend†presented a 50-minute talk on his or her professional accomplishments that was videotaped for archiving by the Chemical Heritage Foundation. The talks are available to teachers and others interested in the history of environmental chemistry.
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Posted by Cyril at 6:17
13 August 2008
Beahrs ELP 2008
This summer, 40 environmental professionals from around the world once again converged in Berkeley to attend the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program (ELP). This certificate program in sustainable environmental management links participants to state-of-the-art environmental and natural resource science and policy training.
Participant Liliya Smialkova, of Belarus and Italy, sums up the ELP this way: "They say that in order to make a change, one doesn't need to change the circumstances but to change his or her point of view. I feel that I have new eyes now."
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Posted by Cyril at 5:00
30 April 2008
Congratulations, 2008 CNR Award Winners
Congratulations to the 2008 Recipients of the CNR Awards.
l-r: Louise Ozawa, Professor Carolyn Merchant, Professor Barbara Allen-Diaz (representing Mr. Russell Rustici, who was unable to attend), and Professor Sofia Villas-Boas
Russell Rustici, Civil Engineering '48, was honored with the CNR Citation. This is the College's highest award, honoring individuals, couples, groups or organizations such as donors, volunteers, alumni, advisory board members, or friends of the College who have made extraordinary contributions to the CNR community. Recipients are honored for their extraordinary commitment of time, sharing their expertise, advocacy and outreach, and/or private support to the College, its students, and its programs. The Citation recognizes those who have made a significant impact and have demonstrated an exceptional commitment the mission of the College.
The other 2008 CNR Award winners are:
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Posted by Cyril at 0:20
27 May 2008
Addressing Global Hunger & Poverty through Agricultural Development
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Posted by Cyril at 5:59
20 May 2007
Commencement address by Dr. Florence Wambugu, CEO, Africa Harvest
Graduation day is a significant and memorable event in one's life time. It marks a transition from one phase of life to another. It is, therefore, an immense privilege for me to be here today, to celebrate with you this significant day for the graduands, faculty, administration and parents.
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Posted by Cyril at 2:00
11 April 2007
Bees keep her busy as a, well, a bee
Public curiosity about bees kept UC Berkeley graduate student Alex Harmon-Threatt on her toes at an annual wildflower festival at the Sunol-Ohlone Regional Wilderness, south of Livermore, on April 7. Kids and adults alike peered through her magnifying glass at a collection of native wild bee species on display: bumblebees, mining bees, sunflower bees, leaf-cutter bees, yellow-faced bees — even bees that "land on you lightly and drink your sweat," she told incredulous young visitors.
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Posted by Cyril at 4:45
10 September 2006
The Whale and the Wind Turbine: Biomimicry in Design
October 25, 2006
4:00-5:30pm
Andersen Auditorium at Haas Business School
Biomimicry is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions by emulating nature's time-tested patterns and strategies, e.g., a solar cell inspired by a leaf. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies---new ways of living---that are well-adapted to life on earth over the long haul.
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Posted by Eva St. Clair at 8:52
06 September 2006
Homecoming is Oct. 6-8 ...check out these CNR events
This year's Homecoming Celebration, October 6-8, will feature faculty and alumni lectures on "new dimensions in human health," "the foodie landscape in the Bay Area," "40 years of change in forest ownership," and "California's water future."
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Posted by Cyril at 6:43
18 July 2006
Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program wraps up 6th annual summer course
On July 15, the Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program wrapped up its sixth annual summer course.
The course is an intensive, hands-on summer training program at UC Berkeley that brings 40 mid-career environmental leaders from developed and developing nations together for workshops on topics including environmental management and policy; clean energy options; leadership for sustainable development; population, poverty and the environment; and conflict management.
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Posted by Cyril at 3:09
29 April 2006
College volunteers pitch in for Habitat for Humanity
The College of Natural Resources was delighted to organize a recent volunteer effort with Habitat for Humanity East Bay on April 29. The building site was located in Livermore, with an area of about twelve homes, several of which were already completed and inhabited by families.
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Posted by Cyril at 1:06
13 April 2006
2006 CNR Awards
Dean Paul Ludden and the College of Natural Resources are very happy to announce the awardees for this year's CNR Citation, Young Faculty/CE Specialist, and Staff Recognition Awards.
Congratulations to:
- Bob Heald, winner of the 2006 CNR Citation
- Max Moritz, winner of the 2006 Young Faculty/CE Specialist Award
- Nancy Schimmelman and Brian McClendon, winners of the 2006 CNR Staff Recognition Award!
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Posted by Cyril at 6:19
20 April 2006
Energy Symposium: The "Rosenfeld Effect"
Eleven eminent scientists will speak on Friday, April 28 on topical energy issues at this day-long symposium honoring their colleague, California Energy Commissioner, UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus, and energy efficiency pioneer Arthur H. Rosenfeld, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Rosenfeld has also just received the prestigious Enrico Fermi Award (press release here).
Sessions of The "Rosenfeld Effect" Energy Symposium will discuss the role of increased energy efficiency in California, in China, and on a global scale; the intersection of energy and safe drinking water in the developing world; the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and sustaining orderly markets in fluid fuels; how to turn good science into good politics; and defining, predicting, and coping with global warming.
8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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Posted by Cyril at 6:29
07 April 2006
Hot Spots in California's Forests
Politics, Fires, Carbon and Conversions
Everyone loves forests, but have we loved them too much? Public misconceptions threaten forest health and ownership, while climate change is the gorilla in the corner. Can political stalemates be unlocked? Are policy changes possible?
A seminar by Andrea Tuttle, visiting CNR faculty member and former director of California's Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection
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Posted by Cyril at 0:49
23 March 2006
CNR's Exciting Lineup of Cal Day Events
Cal Day 2006 is Saturday, April 22, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
For more information on Cal Day, visit www.berkeley.edu/calday
Join the College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley's annual open house. Our undergraduate advisors and many current students will be on hand to answer all your questions, and we'll also be hosting many special events, such as information sessions on "Life as a CNR Student," a fun lecture on "Science in the Movies," workshops on choosing a biology or social science major, an exposition of CNR student groups, an undergraduate research poster display, and lots more.
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Posted by Cyril at 3:23
08 March 2006
Green Chemistry: Necessary Steps to a Sustainable Future
March 15, 3 p.m.
277 Cory Hall
Presented by the College of Natural Resources and the LBNL Helios Project
Even if all consumers and retailers insisted on buying and selling only non-toxic materials, today's manufacturers would only be able to produce a fraction of current goods using non-hazardous materials. The limiting factor is current knowledge of materials science and chemistry.
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Posted by Cyril at 9:58
06 March 2006
Preserving the Presidio's Natural & Cultural Resources: Conflicts and Synergy
The College of Natural Resources at UC Berkeley presents a free lecture and reception with CNR alumna Terri Thomas, Director of Cultural and Natural Resources at the Presidio Trust
Wedsday, March 22
6 to 8 p.m.
The Ventana Room
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Posted by Cyril at 1:48
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