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Politics, Policy, PTSD and Prions: football players, soldiers and older people

Politics, Policy, PTSD and Prions: football players, soldiers and older people

Stanley B. Prusiner, M.D.

Event Event: 2014 Michael Nacht Distinguished Lecture in Politics & Public Policy

Date Date: February 25, 2014

Duration 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.

Climate Change, Politics and the Economy: Rhetoric v. Reality

Climate Change, Politics and the Economy: Rhetoric v. Reality

Dan Kammen, Tom Steyer, Richard "Dick" Beahrs

Date Date: October 5, 2013

Duration 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?