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Community Bulletin Board
Join alumni, parents at Homecoming, Oct.
3-5
Alumni, parents, students,
and inquisitive locals are invited to Cal’s Homecoming & Parents Weekend, Oct. 3 to 5.
The weekend includes scores of faculty seminars, open houses,
sports events, reunions, and other activities. Entrance fees
are charged for several events, but a $10 weekend pass admits
participants to seminars, open houses, tours, the Cal-Stanford
men’s soccer match, and drinks and snacks at Homecoming
Headquarters, west of the Campanile.
Among the talks scheduled are Weight-loss
Diets: Helpful or Harmful by Joanne P. Ikeda, co-director of
the Center for Weight and
Health; Is Anybody Out There? by Dan Werthimer, director of
the SETI project; Development and Globalization in the Wake of
September
11 by Professor Michael Watts, director of the Institute of
International Studies; and The War on Terrorism: How Are We Doing?
by Michael
Nacht, dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy.
For program and
event details, visit www.homecoming.berkeley.edu
UC
Extension offerings
Rich series
of classes offered for adults over 50
A new UC Berkeley Extension membership program for adults
age 50 and above begins Oct. 7. Offered through the Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) and taught by UC Berkeley
professors emeriti and other distinguished scholars, each
course will meet for seven weekly two-hour sessions and
require no homework or exams. Among the offerings are:
the Plays
of Tennessee Williams, Cuisine in the History of French
Civilization, and Preventing Disease.
For more information,
call (510) 642-4183 or visit www.unex.berkeley.edu/prog/
olli
Lectures:
Art, music, writing, and getting into college
- Genetic Engineering: Who Draws
the Line? Sept. 28, 2
to 4 p.m., Berkeley Art Museum Theater; $10. Historian
and
philosopher
of science Charles Weiner highlights controversies
stemming from our knowledge of how to manipulate genetic
material.
He discusses the role of artists as informed critics
and potential decision makers. To register, call (510)
642-4111.
- What
Every College-Bound Student and Family Should Know…and
Probably Doesn’t. Oct. 11, 9 a.m. to
noon, UC Berkeley Extension International Center, 2222
Harold Way, Berkeley;
free. The college application process can be overwhelming.
In this free Saturday morning workshop, author and
career counselor Marty Nemko offers helpful tips for
getting into
a “killer college” without killing yourself.
To register, call (510) 642-4111.
- Jazz
Latino: America’s Music. Oct. 12, 4:30 to
6:30 p.m., Jazzschool, 2087 Addison St., Berkeley;
free. In
this lecture-demonstration, presented in partnership
with the
Jazzschool, Grammy Award nominee John Santos and his
quartet open your ears and minds to many aspects of
Latin jazz,
its historical significance, its aesthetic and technical
characteristics,
and its repertoire. To register, call (510) 845-5373.
Student dispatches from the field
on the web
Four groups of UC Berkeley students,
who spent their summers working in Borneo, Rwanda, Paris,
and Angola, shared their
amazing stories through regular dispatches to the online
UC Berkeley NewsCenter. In Borneo, four graduate students
from the Haas School of Business worked to broker a better
deal for rattan farmers. In Rwanda, Radha Webley, a major
in peace and conflict studies, explored the country’s
efforts to seek both justice and reconciliation through genocide
trials. In Paris, Puneet Kakkar, a double major in political
economy of industrial societies and French, landed a job
as an intern at the U.S. Embassy. And in Angola, Kristin
Reed, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental science, policy
and management, researched the trickle-down effect of the
oil boom in a poor country. From the Indonesian flavor of
Coca-Cola Chicken to the comments of French cabbies on U.S.
foreign policy, these dispatches offer those of us who stayed
at home an insight into the larger world.
To explore the Student Journals,
visit www.berkeley.edu/news/students/2003.
For complete campus news, updated daily,
visit newscenter.berkeley.edu
University/community
programs honored
A reception celebrating partnerships
between the university and the community will be held on
campus on September 18.
This is the fourth annual celebration recognizing the achievements
of individuals and groups from UC Berkeley and the local
community whose joint efforts enhance the quality of life
for local residents. The eight programs honored at this
year’s event are:
- Community Health Academy. A public health
partnership that includes the School of Public Health,
the Alameda
County
Public Health Department and the East 14th Street Crossroads
neighborhood of Oakland to promote the physical, mental,
spiritual, environmental, and economic health of the community.
- Destination: College AmeriCorps Program. Over
70 UC Berkeley undergraduate AmeriCorps members are trained
and
placed
in local schools to tutor and mentor low-income, potential first-generation
college students.
- Eastmont Digital Griots En-Route to College (EDGE). A digital storytelling class for middle and high school
students
that combines training in filmmaking, writing, and critical thinking,
and preparation for college. Partners include the Institute
of Urban and Regional Development and other UC Berkeley
departments, working with Castlemont and Fremont High Schools and University
Preparatory Charter Academy in Oakland, the Eastmont
Computing Center, and Oakland Citizens Committee for
Urban Renewal.
- New Learning Clinic. UC Berkeley Extension
Department of Education works with various local schools,
nonprofit
organizations, and agencies to provide assessment and services for students
with learning disabilities.
- Plant Genomics Training and Education Program. This program
promotes science education and environmental awareness
through public exhibits and summer training programs for students
and teachers. Partners include the Department of Plant
and Microbial Biology, UC Botanical Garden, El Cerrito High School,
the US Department of Agriculture, and other community
and nonprofit groups.
- Social Welfare in a Faith-Based Environment: This unique
social welfare outreach program works with the Allen
Temple Baptist Church in Oakland to bring social work students
into the inner city to provide comprehensive and preventive services.
- World Institute on Disability/UC Disabilities
Studies Program. As a result of a long-standing
partnership between the
Institute and UC Berkeley, the campus Disability Studies Program involves
35 faculty from academic units across the campus. The
Institute is leading the effort to bring disability groups together
to create the Ed Roberts Center in the City of Berkeley.
- Young Entrepreneurs at Haas (YEAH). Using
the principles and real-life lessons of business finance
and
entrepreneurship,
YEAH motivates, educates, and supports youth toward the
achievement of higher education. Community partners include McClymonds
High School in Oakland and Mission High School in San Francisco.
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