OFFICE OF RESEARCH LECTURE SERIES

Sharing the Knowledge: Exciting Research from UC's Distinguished Scholars

Speaker Series Archive

2008  

April: Dr. Rubin, DOE Joint Genome Institute Genomics Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Dr. Claire Kremen - The Buzz on Bees: What Pollinators do for Your Life           

February: Professor Baram's research examines how does a normal brain become sick? Lessons from Epilepsy.

2007

December:  UC Graduate Students, Gretchen Purser is a graduate student in Sociology at UCB; Ocean Howell is a graduate student in Architecture at UCB; Marcos Lopez is a graduate student in Sociology at UCSC.

November: Margaret Rucker, Professor in the Divison of Textiles & Clothing at UC Davis.

November: UC Graduate Students, Emily Crawford is a graduate student in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Program at UCSF; Jennifer Cash is a graduate student in Chemistry at UC Davis; Lavi Secundo is a graduate student in Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

October: John Bradley, Director of the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Sciences (IGPP) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

August: UC Graduate Students, Nature McGinn, Ph.D candidate in the Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology Graduate Group at UC Davis; Rachel Washburn, Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at UCSF; Roy Wollman, Ph.D. candidate in the Cell and Developmental Biology program at UC Davis.

May: Bella DePaulo, Visiting Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

May: Louann Brizendine, Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Founder and Director of the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco.

April: Charis Thompson, Associate Professor in the Departments of Gender and Women’s Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

January: Alan J. Heeger; a 2000 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Physics and Materials at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

2006

December: Elizabeth Loftus, Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society, and the Department of Cognitive Sciences.  She also has appointments in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and is a Fellow of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory.

July: Elizabeth Watkins, Vice Chair and Director of Graduate Studies in the History of Health Sciences Program in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine at UC San Francisco.

May: Joseph DeRisi, The Gordon Tomkins Chair of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UC San Francisco with a joint appointment at the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3).

April: Jim Dieterich, Professor of Geophysics at UC Riverside and a researcher with the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

2005

November: Professor Judith Butler, Departments of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Gender and Women's Studies, UCB.

October: Professor Harry Sheiber, Director of the UC Berkeley Institute for Legal Research.

September: Richard Walker, Professor of Geography, UC Berkeley, discussed his latest book, "The Conquest of Bread, 150 Years of Agribusiness in California."   "The Conquest of Bread" focuses on the evolution of agribusiness and on its organization and offers an unprecedented wide-angle view of California agriculture.

May: Dr. Steve Chu is the Director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley. 

April: Professor Bruce Ames is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley, and a Senior Scientist at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institutie (CHORI).  

March: Maria Mavroudi, a  UC Berkeley History Professor, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "genius" fellowship in 2004.

February: Peter Coyote narrated, "In the Shadow of White Mountain" a UCTV documentary, was presented on the White Mountain Research Station, an MRU near Bishop CA.  The documentary was shown at noon at the Oakland Cultural Center, Pacific Renaissance Plaza (on Franklin Street between 10th and 11th Streets).

January: Professor Stanley Prusiner, 1997 Nobel Laureate, and Director of the Institute for Neuro-degenerative Diseases at UC San Francisco.