Good news! The Graduate Council last week authorized six weeks paid maternity leave for supported doctoral students, beginning in fall 2007. The input of 2,111 doctoral students who responded to our survey on career, family, and life plans last fall has already had an impact. We will continue to address identified needs and make improvements to graduate student life wherever possible.
On another front, as Oscar fever dies down, we are approaching our own "awards season." Students will be recognized as outstanding graduate student instructors and for their teaching effectiveness, and faculty will be acknowledged for their above-the-call-of-duty help to graduate students as they become teachers and researchers.
Celebratory events in May will acknowledge the superior performance of many of our GSIs and their faculty mentors. GSIs who wish to nominate their mentors for the teaching-related Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs (which we co-sponsor with the California Alumni Association) should make sure those nominations are received in the GSI Center by 4 p.m. on March 9. The Graduate Assembly presents honors for research-oriented mentoring, known as the Distinguished Faculty Mentor Awards. Nominations for the GA's awards must reach the GA prior to 6 p.m. on April 4. (More details are available below under GSI Center and Graduate Assembly, and on their respective websites.)
I look forward to seeing you at the award ceremonies.
Mary Ann Mason
Dean of the Graduate Division
Financial Aid
- 2006-2007 financial aid changes
- Summer loans for Summer Sessions
Graduate Fellowships
- CIRM Fellowship in the Humanities/Social Sciences
- George Lurcy Fellowship for Study in France
- Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship
- Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship
- Albert Newman Fellowship for Visually Impaired Students
- Intercampus Travel Grants
GSI Teaching and Resource Center
- Nominations open for 2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
- Nominations open for Outstanding GSI Awards 2006-2007
- A modest grant can make a difference in your course
Deadlines, Events, and Workshops
Graduate Assembly
- Nominations open for 2007 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award nominations
University Health Services
- Training for GSIs on Depression Awareness and Suicide Prevention
- Sexual Health Faire
University Library
- Abu Ghraib exhibit
Deadline for April
- Submissions are due March 15
2006-2007 financial aid changes
The Financial Aid Office recommends that you request any changes to your financial aid for the current academic year (2006-2007) by April 1, 2007. This includes accepting more loans, documenting extra expenses for more loans or work study, or reporting new grant awards from your department or other sources that may require an adjustment to your federal loans. Send changes to the graduate section of Financial Aid.
Summer loans for Summer Sessions
Students who will be enrolling in a Summer Session can apply for summer federal loans if they have at least six summer units. The Summer Financial Aid site will be up and running by mid-March.
CIRM Fellowship in the Humanities/Social Sciences
The UC Berkeley Stem Cell Center seeks applications for a predoctoral stem cell research fellowship in the humanities/social sciences which is awarded to UC Berkeley by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). This CIRM fellowship provides a $25,000 stipend, partial tuition payment, and a $5,000 research allowance for the 2007-2008 academic year. Fellows' projects must be directly relevant to the current or anticipated practice of basic or translational stem cell research. Candidates should submit a short CV, two-page research proposal, and one letter of recommendation to Lily Mirels by March 15, 2007. Additional information is available on the website of the UC Berkeley Science, Technology, and Society Center.
Georges Lurcy Fellowship for Study in France
The Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust offers fellowships to outstanding American students for advanced graduate study and research in France. The award is for U.S. citizens or permanent residents only. The research topic should pertain to France and be one that can be pursued only in that country. A stipend of $20,000 will be provided for one academic year to cover the cost of travel, educational fees, and living expenses in France. The announcement (PDF) and application (PDF) are available at the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall, or online. The application deadline is Thursday, March 22, 2007.
For more information, email Shaya Kahali in the Graduate Services: Fellowships office.
Guru Gobind Singh Fellowship
This fellowship is intended for graduates of universities in specific areas of India and Pakistan who are currently pursuing a graduate degree at the University of California. To be eligible, a student must also be committed to returning to his or her country of origin after receiving the graduate degree and must not have engaged previously in graduate study at any other institution of higher learning in the United States. Students at any stage of graduate study may be nominated, but preference is given to those holding a master's degree, and particularly those who have reached the dissertation stage and have exhausted the normal sources of financial support. The fellowship will provide $26,000 for 2007-2008.
For more information or to get an application, contact Shaya Kahali in the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall. The deadline to submit applications is Thursday, April 12, 2007 by 4 p.m.
Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship
The Dr. and Mrs. James C.Y. Soong Fellowship for academic year 2007-2008 is open to graduate students from Taiwan who are enrolled full time at UC Berkeley in any field of study. To be eligible, students must: 1) have graduated from a fully accredited, 4-year college or university in Taiwan, with a GPA of 3.7 (A-) or higher; 2) be a citizen of the Republic of China and have lived in Taiwan consecutively for at least ten years; and 3) have demonstrated financial need in pursuit of advanced degrees. The fellowship may be renewed one time. Each department may nominate one student who meets these criteria. Submit nominations to the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall, by 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 12, 2007. Please contact Shaya Kahali if you have questions. Applications are available online.
Albert Newman Fellowship for Visually Impaired Students 2007-2008
Basic aspects of this fellowship are these:
Completed application and supporting documents should be submitted to the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall #5900, Berkeley, CA 94720-5900. Applications are available online (PDF). The deadline for applying is Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Submit your completed application with transcript to Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall #5900, Berkeley, CA 94720-5900. Applicants will be notified of decisions by mail in late May or June 2007.
Intercampus Travel Grants
Awards, generally budgeted at $1,000, are available to help graduate students and postdoctoral researchers initiate UC intercampus collaborations with individual researchers or with existing or potential research groups on projects related to the goals of the UC Toxic Substances Research and Teaching Program. Graduate students who will interact with research groups are encouraged to gather preliminary data that will provide the basis for future extramural funding. Currently registered students and postdoctoral fellows in any UC graduate program are eligible. Proposals will be accepted anytime throughout the 2007-2008 academic year. Full information is available online.
Note: these grants are not available for travel to scientific meetings.Top
Note: See the listings by date below for workshops on teaching that are coming up in the near future (February 6, February 21, March 20, April 2, and April 19).
Nominations open: 2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs
In partnership with the California Alumni Association, the Graduate Council's Advisory Committee for GSI Affairs and the Graduate Division's GSI Teaching and Resource Center are pleased to announce the 2007 Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs. This award recognizes faculty (including both Senate and non-Senate faculty) who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching at Berkeley and preparation for the teaching graduate students may do in future careers. Nominations are sought from graduate students who have served as GSIs.
Up to three awards of $1,000 each will be given. Awards will typically be presented to faculty members mentoring GSIs in multi-section courses, in stand-alone courses (e.g., foreign language or reading and composition courses), or through the teaching of a 300-level course. Recipients will be honored at a spring awards ceremony, and statements of mentoring philosophy will be posted on the GSI Teaching and Resource Center's website. The nomination deadline is Friday, March 9, 2007. Guidelines, nomination forms, and statements of mentoring philosophy from previous recipients can be found online.
Nominations open: Outstanding GSI Awards 2006-2007
The GSI Teaching and Resource Center welcomes nominations from departments for the 2006-2007 Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award. Each department may nominate one GSI for every ten GSIs appointed during the academic year. The deadline for submitting nominations for the Outstanding GSI Awards is Friday, March 16, 2007. Guidelines, forms for submitting nominations, and lists of past Outstanding GSI Award recipients can be found online.
A modest grant can make a difference in your course
The GSI Teaching and Resource Center offers Course Improvement Grants for projects that will enhance student learning and increase a GSI's teaching effectiveness. Past grants have allowed funding of guest speakers; purchasing theater or museum tickets; developing or purchasing slides; renting or purchasing films and videos; purchasing charts, maps, or other materials that are not a standard part of the course. The maximum amount awarded is $300. Applications are accepted year-round, no later than 15 working days prior to the implementation of the proposed project. Guidelines and applications are available online.
If you plan on "teaching across the arts," the Arts Research Center will award curriculum development grants of $750 to GSIs or faculty for the 2007-2008 academic year. Proposed courses must involve materials from at least two artistic media and address the challenge of writing about the arts in addition to issues raised by the arts themselves. They also must draw in significant measure on existing art resources at Berkeley, such as the Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Cal Performances, and Department of Music performances. Courses not previously offered at Berkeley or that represent major modifications of pre-existing courses, will be given preference. Team-taught or interdepartmental courses are encouraged. For complete details, email Michele Rabkin. The application deadline is April 1, 2007.
TopNote: check other headings for category-specific dates, such as fellowship application deadlines and more detailed information.
MARCH 7 (Wednesday)
Graduate Diversity Program Brown Bag Series --- "Public Speaking: Presentations, Talks, Conferences"
Noon to 1 p.m., Tilden Room, fifth floor, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Andrew Green, Ph.D. counselor, Career Center
Presented by the Graduate Division's Graduate Diversity Program
MARCH 8 (Thursday)
Jefferson Memorial Lecture --- "The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class: Higher Risks, Lower Rewards, and a Shrinking Safety Net"
4:10 p.m. p.m., Chevron Auditorium, International House, 2299 Piedmont Avenue
Elizabeth Warren, professor of law, Harvard University
More information is available online. Presented by the Graduate Division and the Academic Senate's Graduate Council.
MARCH 9 (Friday)
Deadline for submitting nominations for the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs, which recognizes faculty who have provided GSIs outstanding mentorship in teaching. (More details are above, under the GSI Teaching and Resource Center heading.)
MARCH 9 (Friday)
Conference/Symposium: "Globalization and Social Change --- The Seventh Annual Berkeley Journal of Sociology Conference"
9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Lipman Room, eighth floor of Barrows Hall
Bridging Academia and Activism panel: Kaven Danaher, co-founder of Global Exchange, with student and faculty activists
Featured speaker: Walden Bello, professor of sociology and public administration, University of the Philippines, executive director, Focus on the Global South
Faculty panel: Michael Burawoy, Peter Evans, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas (sociology), Gillian Hart (geography), and Ananya Roy (city and regional planning) Student panels throughout the day, free dinner (RSVP to bjxconference@yahoo.com). Schedule and more information are online. Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Human Rights Center, the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, and the Graduate Assembly. The editors of the Berkeley Journal of Sociology are graduate students in the Department of Sociology; the journal, an annual, features the scholarship of graduate students and untenured faculty.
MARCH 12 (Monday)
Lecture: "The Twilight of Posterity"
7:30 p.m., 105 North Gate Hall
Kaja Silverman, professor in the Rhetoric Department and the Film Studies Program
Presented by the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium. Sponsored by the Center for New Media and the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society.
MARCH 13, 14 and 15 (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday)
Eating Disorders Awareness Week events
Upper and Lower Sproul Plazas and other locations, various times. (See below under University Health Services heading for more details.)
MARCH 15 (Thursday)
Application deadline for CIRM Fellowship in the Humanities/Social Sciences
(More details are above, under the Graduate Fellowships heading.)
MARCH 16 (Friday)
Deadline for submitting nominations for the Outstanding GSI Awards.
(More details are above, under the GSI Teaching and Resource Center heading.)
MARCH 19 (Monday)
Jefferson Memorial Lecture --- "From Thomas Jefferson to Forrest Gump:
How the Mall in Washington Became the Nation's Most Venerated Civic Space"
4:10 p.m. p.m., Lipman Room, eighth floor, Barrows Hall
Michael Kammen, professor of American history, Cornell University
More information is available online.
Presented by the Graduate Division and the Academic Senate's Graduate Council.
MARCH 22 (Thursday)
Application deadline for Georges Lurcy Fellowship for Study in France
(More details are above, under the Graduate Fellowships heading.)
MARCH 26 to MARCH 30
Spring Recess
MARCH 30
Cesar Chavez holiday
APRIL 2 (Monday)
Workshop on Teaching --- "Syllabus and Course Design"
Noon to 1:30 p.m., l166 Barrows Hall
Linda von Hoene, GSI Center director, and Kim Starr-Reid, GSI Center teaching consultant and lecturer in Celtic studies
Presented by the Graduate Division's GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
APRIL 4 (Wednesday)
Deadline for nominations for the Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award
This award honors the mentoring of graduate student researchers. (More information is available below, under the Graduate Assembly heading below. Note the strict time cutoff of 5:59 p.m. on April 4.)
APRIL 11 (Wednesday)
Graduate Diversity Program Brown Bag Series --- "Academic Writing: Grants, Papers, Publications"
12 to 1 p.m., Tilden Room, fifth floor, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Sabrina Soracco, academic coordinator, Graduate Division
APRIL 18 (Wednesday)
Application deadline for Albert Newman Fellowship for Visually Impaired Students
(More details are above, under the Graduate Fellowships heading.)
APRIL 19 (Thursday)
Workshop on Teaching --- "Teaching and the Academic Job Search"
12:30 to 2 p.m., 170 Barrows Hall
Presented by the Graduate Division's GSI Teaching and Resource Center.
APRIL 21 (Saturday)
Cal Day / UC Berkeley Open House
MAY 8 (Tuesday)
Instruction ends
MAY 11(Wednesday)
Final exams begin
MAY 18 (Friday)
Deadline for dissertations and theses
Spring semester ends
Nominations open for awards recognizing faculty who mentor graduate students in their research
The 2007 Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award (FMA) honors Senate and non-Senate members of the Berkeley faculty who have shown an outstanding commitment to mentoring, developing, and supporting graduate student researchers. Three awards will be presented to the selected research mentors. Nominations are expected to come primarily from doctoral, masters, and professional students engaged in research at UC Berkeley who have been direct beneficiaries of the candidate's mentoring and can relate their experiences firsthand. This year, nominations for FMA are only being accepted electronically, emailed as attachment in MS Word format. Nomination forms may be downloaded from the GA website or requested by email. Deadline: all nominations must be emailed to fma@ga.berkeley.edu no later than Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 5:59 p.m. Details about the upcoming awards presentation ceremony will be announced in April.
Eating Disorders Awareness Week celebrates health at every size, March 13, 14, & 15
Under the theme/motto "Rock Ya Body," UHS will sponsor educational workshops, an entertainment showcase (with prizes), and other activities to promote healthful lifestyles that celebrate positive self-esteem, body image, eating practices, and physical activity within the Cal community. Among the features are a panel discussion on media portrayals of male and female bodies, and education booths with UHS staff, community health professionals, plenty of take-away information, plus "free stuff" including CDs and coupons. In the U.S., as many as 10 million females and one million males are in a life-or-death battle with anorexia or bulimia. On this campus, nearly a third of all students experience a problem with an eating disorder during their college careers. Reversing these trends, says UHS nutritionist Helen Pak, is "all about loving, moving, nurturing, and celebrating your body regardless of your size." Students interested in participating in a workshop should call 643-0418. More information about Eating Disorders Awareness Week is available by phone (642-5075) and online.
Abu Ghraib exhibit
Fernando Botero's powerful and controversial series of 47 paintings and drawings depicting the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison will be on display in Doe Library through March 23. The exhibit, sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, is open to the public. Exhibit hours (which are different from the library's hours) are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday (closed Sunday). More information is available online.
Highlights of upcoming films (times and detailed program information are available at the PFA website)
March and part of April --- Modernist Master: Michelangelo Antonioni
A retrospective surveying the career of this proponent of cinematic modernism, including some of his landmarks. Titles include L'eclisse, Il grido, L'avventura, The Lady Without Camellias, and Blow-Up.
March 16-24 --- 25th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
Featuring 14 ventures set in many places, from Canada to Kabul, offering glimpses --- fictional and all too real --- of women looking for love in Japan, polygamists in Indonesia, gangsters in Korea, love amid student unrest in 1908s Tienanmen Square, and zombies in L.A.
Highlights of programs available in Berkeley during January
UCTV programs may be seen using cable, satellite, or computer (all day, every day, all year long on the latter). Offerings and detailed schedules are available online.
"Conversations with History" is hosted by Berkeley's Harry Kreisler, whose guests this month cover subjects including women's rights, Al-Qaeda, and the cosmos. Philosopher Martha Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, discusses "Women's Rights, Religious Freedom, and Liberal Education," along the way answering the question "What does a philosopher do?" New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright, in "Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11," talks about Mohammed Qutb, Osama Bin Ladin, and Dr. Ayman al-Zawarhiri, key figures in the jihadist movement that became Al-Qaeda, and the career of FBI agent John O'Neill, who led the bureau's search for terrorists in the U.S. and was killed in the destruction of the Twin Towers. His Excellency Kenneth D. Kaunda, the first president of Zambia (1964-1991), discusses the national and international challenges he confronted in "Reflections on Empire, Nationalism, and Globalization." He also talks about his current work with non-government organizations in the global struggle with disease, poverty, and inequality. Emeritus Princeton science professor James Peebles takes the listener on "A Cosmologist's Intellectual Journey."
In a separate but related program, James Peebles tackles the big question "What Is Our Universe Like In The Large and How Did It Get That Way? --- Exploring the Large-Scale Nature of the Universe." A dominant idea now is that the universe is close to uniform, lacking observable center or edges, and it's expanding. Peebles explores the history of these notions and the present state of the evidence for their reliability. Peebles laid the foundations for many modern cosmological investigations by predicting the existence of cosmic background radiation, popularizing the notion of “dark matter” in the universe, and developing a theory of how the universe evolved into galaxies. His presentation was a Hitchcock Lecture, presented by the Graduate Division for the Academic Senate's Graduate Council.
Martha Nussbaum also does double duty on UCTV, in a program called "Equal Liberty of Conscience: Roger Williams and the Roots of a Constitutional Tradition." In it, she traces the philosophical and historical origins of an American tradition through the career and writings of Williams, the founder of Rhode Island and author of important works about religious freedom. Her presentation was a Foerster Lecture, presented by the Graduate Division for the Academic Senate's Graduate Council.
"The U.S. Military Abroad" goes beyond the details of combat missions to the larger story of the work and lives of the nearly half-million men and women serving the security interests of the U.S. overseas. In overview, the U.S. military operates in 146 countries, controls an area the size of Pennsylvania, and spends $371 billion dollars a year. Berkeley multi-media teams traveled to Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, Djibouti in East Africa, as well as South Korea, the Persian Gulf, and the South China Sea to gather details for this production. Broadcast by CNN in 2006, the program includes reports by '06 journalism graduates Lee Wang, Emily Taguchi, Najlae Benmbarek, Aaron Selverston, Aliza Nadi, and Cerissa Tanner.
California's leading pollsters describe the status of public opinion before, during, and after the recent statewide election which saw the re-election of Governor Schwarzenegger, in "The Polls: What Were Voters Thinking?" Panelists include Mark Baldassare, research director of the Public Policy Institute of California; Mark DiCamillo, director of the Field Poll; Susan Pinkus, director of the Los Angeles Times Poll; Phil Trounstine, director of the Survey and Policy Research Institute at San Jose State University, and Susan Rasky, professor of journalism on this campus, who moderates.
- UCTV can be seen nationwide via community cable channels, such as Berkeley's community channel 33 and government channel 28 at scheduled times; via Direct Broadcast Satellite on the Dish Network, Channel 9412, 24 hours a day, seven days a week; and on the Internet, via 24-hour live stream and subsequent video-on-demand.
Other ways to see and select programs:
- On Google Video, an online video database, boosting the educational component of that resource and making free viewing of UCTV shows considerably easier for Internet users anywhere in the world. UC Berkeley is one of the biggest contributors to UCTV, a 10-campus effort of the UC system.
- Like it local, fresh or "classic?" UCTV's Berkeley office, on its updated web page lists all currently airing programming from this campus in chronological order, newest programs on top. At the same URL you can choose from all programs archived for on-demand viewing.
- Want to watch on the go? Many UCTV programs are available as podcasts. The menu is online.
Top The George Polk Award for radio reporting will be presented in April to the producers of the 2006 series "Early Signs: Reports from a Warming Planet." From the snowy slopes on Mount Kilimanjaro, the crowded delta of Bangladesh, the outskirts of Auckland, New Zealand, and elsewhere, 11 journalism students conducted interviews and reported on real-life miseries and perils already caused by global warming. Distributed in various formats nationwide, the seven-month project was edited and produced by the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, American Public Media and Living on Earth. Led by investigative reporter Sandy Tolan and Berkeley climatologist John Harte, the student reporters honored included Pauline Bartolone '08, Alexandra Berzon '06, Kate Cheney Davidson '07, Durrell Dawson '06, Jori Lewis '06, Felicia Mello '07, Nick Miroff '06, Jon Mooallem '06, Emilie Raguso '06, Aaron Selverston '06 and Sandhya Somashekhar '06. Their reporting was generated by Tolan's 2005-2006 class about climate change. The team's stories ran on Salon.com, with radio versions airing on NPR's "Living on Earth" program, and print versions of some stories appeared in California, the magazine of the California Alumni Association.
www.loe.org/series/earlysigns.htm americanradioworks.publicradio.org/features/earlysigns/index.html http://dir.salon.com/topics/early_signs_reports_from_a_warming_planet/
http://www.alumni.berkeley.edu/calmag/200609/main.asp
Another journalism grad student, Jeremy Rue '07, won the 2007 Dorothea Lange Fellowship for his color photographs of farm workers in the fields, orchards, and labor camps of California's Central Valley. The $4,000 award was created in memory of Dorothea Lange, a documentary photographer and photojournalist widely known for her images of farm families migrating west in search of work during the Great Depression.
http://www.berkeley.edu/lange/2007/rue.html
The debt-plagued Oakland Unified School District --- currently being managed by the State of California --- was the poster-case for the nation's first case competition for MBAs focusing on the challenges of education leadership, held in early March. A team of students from the Haas School of Business submitted a plan and won, beating the Kellogg School of Management team from Northwestern University (which took second) and panels from MIT, the University of Georgia, Brandeis, UCLA, and USC. Among the judges was the school district's budget director, Barak Ben-Gal, who said, "For me, this was all about plagiarism. What can I take from your presentations and completely adapt?" The winning concepts may be put into play as early as July.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5087527
A grad alumnus, Paul Alivisatos Ph.D. '86, has been named one of eight winners of the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award, which will be presented by the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. The award honors scientists and engineers at mid-career for "exceptional contributions in research and development that support the Department of Energy and its mission to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. Alivisatos will share the award, and a $50,000 honorarium, with an MIT scientist for "chemical synthesis and characterization of functional semiconducting nanocrystals, also known as quantum dots." Alivisatos is director of the Materials Science Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and a professor of chemistry, materials science, and nanotechnology on the Berkeley campus. The award honors the memory of E.O. Lawrence, the Berkeley physicist and Nobel Laureate who invented the cyclotron, or particle accelerator.
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/02/07_lawrenceaward.shtml
Grad alumnus Steven Chu Ph.D. '76, who won the 1997 Nobel Prize in physics and has been director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 2004, was featured on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle March 5 for "pushing his scientists and industry to develop technologies to reverse climate change." The story said "he is focusing all divisions of the most intellectually diverse of the U.S. Department of Energy's national labs on a campaign to stand and fight." Predictions of rivers drying up and millions of people migrating to wherever water is available are serious, he says, and using science to attack the problem is "prudent risk management. It's like saying, 'Your house will burn down in the next 10 years --- 50 percent probability. By the way, do you want fire insurance?'"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/05/CHU.TMP
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