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Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Submitted by cmjones on February 23, 2007 - 2:22pm.Name of Research Center:
Center for Sustainable Resource Development
Description:
The Center for Sustainable Resource Development is located in the College of Natural Resources and brings together UC Berkeley's leading environmental and social scientists with other experts and stakeholders from industry, government, and environmental organizations to address complex resource-use issues such as global climate change, sustainable agriculture, water reliability, and population, poverty and the environment.
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Environmental Sciences Student Organization
Submitted by cmjones on February 14, 2007 - 2:41pm.Name of Organization:
Environmental Sciences Student Organization
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To provide a forum for students interested in the environmental sciences
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Um, Khatharya
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:31am.Name of Person:
Khatharya Um
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Department:
Ethnic Studies, Associate Professor
Research Interests:
Khatharya Um's current research interests focus on transnational and on cultural transmission in the context of population dislocation.
Hass, Robert
Submitted by cmjones on March 2, 2007 - 3:04pm.Name of Person:
Robert Hass
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English, Professor
Research Interests:
20th-Century American Literature. Creative Writing. Poetry. Professor Hass works on contemporary American poetry and translation; he has also been interested recently in environmental history and literature.
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Submitted by cmjones on April 24, 2007 - 10:08am.Name of Library of Museum:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Description:
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, was founded in 1901 by Phoebe Apperson Hearst who envisioned the museum as the cultural cornerstone of one of the world’s leading research institutions — a great educator of the people of California.
Today, the Hearst Museum serves the community through exhibitions, educational programs, and research opportunities that promote the understanding of the history and the diversity of human cultures.
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102 Kroeber Hall
Pennies for Afghan peace
Submitted by cmjones on April 18, 2007 - 11:32am.Date Posted:
Apr 18 2007
Title of News:
Pennies for Afghan peace
Summary:
Said Tayeb Jawad, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, accepts cans of coins donated by UC Berkeley students for the rebuilding of his homeland from Kyleigh Kühn, a Berkeley peace and conflict studies major. Kühn is co-founder of the Pennies for Peace campaign, which has raised more than $150,000 to replace minefields with agricultural lands. Jawad was on campus Tuesday to deliver a talk on "Winning the Peace" in war-torn Afghanistan.
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UCB News Center
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An intellectual-property primer
Submitted by cmjones on April 17, 2007 - 11:38am.Date Posted:
Apr 12 2007
Title of News:
An intellectual-property primer
Summary:
Carol Mimura, of the campus's Office of Intellectual Property and Industry Research Alliances, helps explain the role of IP in transferring technology to benefit society.
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UCB News Center
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Watts, Michael
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:37am.Name of Person:
Michael Watts
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Department:
Geography, Professor
Research Interests:
Political economy, political ecology, Africa, South Asia, development, peasant societies, social and cultural theory, U.S. agriculture, Islam and social movements
Romm, Jeffrey
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 11:03am.Name of Person:
Jeffrey Romm
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Department:
ESPM, Professor
Research Interests:
Relations between social distributions of power and wealth, economic growth, and natural resource qualities, and impacts of policy and organization on these relations, exploring how scientific and cultural concepts, the organization of knowledge, and scientific research, affect public discourse about and actions toward environmental problems, the impacts of institutional relations on the management of watersheds and river basins and the interplay between policies toward race and toward natural resources in the United States.
Rochlin, Gene
Submitted by cmjones on March 6, 2007 - 10:58am.Name of Person:
Gene Rochlin
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Department:
Energy and Resources Group, Professor
Research Interests:
Science, technology and society, cultural and cognitive studies of technical operations, the politics and policy of energy and environmental matters, and the broader cultural, organizational and social implications and consequences of technology – including large technical systems.