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Past Lectures

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003

2009

Bouncing Back: Is Economic Recovery on the Way?
November 2009: New York City
Robert Reich and Henry Brady

Impossibly Perfect: The Pressures to Become Better Humans
October 2009: Santa Monica
October 2009: Costa Mesa
November 2009: San Francisco
Charis Thompson and Stephen Hinshaw

The First 100 Days: The Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
May 2009: New York
David H. Romer, Christopher Edley, Jr.

Altruism in Times of Stress and Hardship
March 2009: Lafayette - SOLD OUT
April 2009: San Diego
Dacher Keltner, Darlene Francis

The Challenge of Change: What to Expect from the Obama White House
March 2009: Redwood City
April 2009: Los Angeles
Henry Brady, Severin Borenstein

2008

Health Crisis in America
October 2008: Newport Beach
October 2008: San Jose
Pat Crawford, S. Leonard Syme, Stephen Shortell, and Robert Tjian

Global Poverty: Challenges and Innovations in the New Millennium
October 2008: Los Angeles Century City
October 2008: San Francisco
Ananya Roy and Tom Kalil

Answering Energy and Climate Challenges With Rational Economic Policy
October 2008: New York City
Severin Borenstein

Elections: What will it take to be elected in 2008?
March 2008: San Francisco
March 2008: Palo Alto
May 2008: Los Angeles
May 2008: La Jolla SOLD OUT
Professor Bruce Cain and Dan Schnur

Mortgages: How did the subprime problem become everybody's problem?
March 2008: Santa Monica
March 2008: Newport Beach
May 2008: Lafayette
May 2008: Sausalito
Professor John Quigley and Dr. Cynthia Kroll

2007

AIR...WATER What is our future?
November 2007: Santa Monica
November 2007: San Diego
David Sedlak and Bill Nazaroff

WEATHER...ECONOMY, What are the impacts?
November 2007: Redwood City
November 2007: Sacramento
Robert Bea and David Sunding

SECURITY...ENERGY
What are the connections?
September 2007: New York
Dan Kammen and Michael Nacht

Globalization and the Flow of Knowledge
March 2007: Danville, Mountain View
AnnaLee Saxenian, Dean, School of Information and Professor, City and Regional Planning • Steven Weber, Director, Institute of International Studies and Professor, Political Science

Special thanks to Google for hosting this event and donating the proceeds to The Cal Fund
>Watch Google's video presentation of this lecture on YouTube

Northern California Kickoff Event
UC Berkeley's Nobel Laureates:
Energy Self-Sufficiency in the 21st Century
January 2007: Berkeley
George A. Akerlof (Economics, 2001) • Steven Chu (Physics, 1997) • Donald A. Glaser (Physics, 1960) • Yuan T. Lee (Chemistry, 1986) • Daniel L. McFadden (Economics, 2000) • George F. Smoot (Physics, 2006) • Charles H. Townes (Physics, 1964) • In conversation with Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau

More than 900 Cal alumni, parents, and friends attended the Nobel laureates lecture.
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> Speaker's presentations and follow-up responses:

2006

National Security vs. Freedom of the Press
October 2006: San Diego, Santa Monica
Michael Nacht, Aaron Wildavsky Dean and Professor, Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy • Orville Schell, Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Human Stem Cells: Scientific and Societal Impacts
June 2006: New York
Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor • Randy Schekman, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology • Charis Thompson, Associate Professor of Gender and Women‘s Studies and Rhetoric
New Directions for a New Supreme Court?
April 2006: Costa Mesa, Los Angeles
Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law • Gordon Silverstein, Assistant Professor of Political Science

2005

Human Stem Cells: Biotechnology‘s Next Generation
October 2005: San Diego, Los Angeles
Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor • Randy Schekman, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology • Robert Knight, Professor of Psychology

2004

Fueling the Future: The Cost of Oil Dependence and the Prospects for Alternatives
November 2004: Los Angeles, Balboa
Severin Borenstein, Director UC Energy Institute/Professor of Business Administration • Daniel Kammen, Professor of Energy and Society/Director, Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL) • Introducing UC Berkeley‘s new Chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau
Elections 2004: Political Forecasts, Economic Consequences
May 2004: Los Angeles, Santa Ana
Tom Campbell, former Congressman, Dean of the Haas School of Business • Bruce Cain, Director of Institute of Governmental Studies and Robson Professor of Political Science

2003

The High Price of Cheap Food: Following the Food Chain
October 2003: Los Angeles, Costa Mesa
Michael Pollan, John S. and James L. Knight Endowed Chair in Journalism, Graduate School of Journalism
Pioneering Discoveries for Health Research
June 2003: San Diego
John Kuriyan, Chancellor‘s Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and Department of Chemistry • Michael Marletta, Aldo DeBenedictis Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology
Distinguished Teachers: The Next Generation
May 2003: Los Angeles
Steve Welter, Professor and Division Head, Insect Biology Division, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management • Marianne Constable J.D., Associate Professor, Department of Rhetoric, College of Letters and Science
Reacting to Terrorism: How Are We Doing?
February 2003: Burbank
Michael Nacht, Dean, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy • Arthur Reingold M.D., Professor and Division Head, Epidemiology Division, School of Public Health