Webcast Archives
Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D.
Event: 2014 Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy
Date: February 25, 2014
Duration: 89 minutes
A discussion of the revolutionary advances in brain degeneration, focusing on federal and business support for developing drugs to prevent and treat neurodegenerative diseases, e.g. Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s diseases, in athletes, combatants and the elderly.
Gary Pruitt
Event: Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley
Date: January 20, 2014
Duration: 49 minutes
Robert Reich, Paul Solman
Date: October 11, 2013
Duration: 6 minutes
Dan Kammen, Tom Steyer, Richard "Dick" Beahrs
Date: October 5, 2013
Duration: 90 minutes
Rapidly melting arctic ice, catastrophic hurricanes, devastating wildfires, and record-breaking drought—scientists agree that the climate is changing, that it’s human caused, and that it will undeniably be one of the most serious problems facing the world’s citizens for generations to come. At the same time, they acknowledge that technologies to combat climate change do exist. How can we come together to address this challenge which has become a partisan political issue in the United States in a way it has not elsewhere in the world?