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Michael Berne, Founder of MJB Consulting, will talk about integrating market and real estate realities into planning and design. https://consultmjb.com/   

Lydia Tan (Managing Director-Real Estate, Oakland A's)   https://www.mlb.com/ athletics Lydia will discuss plans for Howard Terminal and Coliseum sites and join MRED+D Practice Director, Carol Galante, in conversation about development practice.    Thursday November 7 6-7pm  reception , 7-8:30pm  lecture Wurster 112

Monday, December 2 | 7:30PM – 9:00 PM | 310 Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley ATC Lecture – Zhang Ga, “From Timelapse to Timecollapse: Rethinking New Media Art and Platform China” The ATC series is produced by the Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM), with support from the Office of the Vice Chancellor and Provost, the Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), Meyer Sound and Theo Armour. For more information, visit atc.berkeley.edu

This year, the Board of Directors of the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, in cooperation with the UC Berkeley Library, the Goldman School of Public Policy, the Graduate Assembly, and the Free Speech Movement Café presents: Van Jones: Where are we now? Where do we want to be? How can we get there? November 28th, 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center, UC Berkeley Admission Free (tickets are required; available from 6:30pm in the lobby) There will be a book signing following the lecture. Named by Rolling Stone as one of 12 Leaders Who Get Things Done and by Time Magazine as a global environmental hero and one of the 100 most influential people in the world, Van Jones served as Special Advisor to President Obama.  Jones is a co-founder of four thriving non-profits: Color of Change, Green for All, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, and his current project, Rebuild the Dream, a pioneering initiative to restore good jobs and economic opportunity. For further information, ...

The BERC Energy Symposium is the premier energy event at UC Berkeley and the largest student-run energy conference on the West Coast. Key players from the research, business development, policy and economics communities converge on Berkeley’s campus to explore innovative ideas and provide a platform for vibrant discussion among hundreds of attendees. The 2012 Symposium theme is Tensions in Energy: Aligning Innovation, Investment, and Policy. The 2012 Energy Symposium is a two-day event includes: prE-Symposium (Monday – Wednesday, Oct 15 – 17): an online launch of the Symposium before the on-campus event to provide Symposium attendees with valuable panel background information and to expand access for those who can’t attend the Energy Symposium. Innovation Expo (Thursday 6-9pm, Oct 18th): a showcase of the latest energy and resources breakthroughs in the fields of science, engineering, policy, economics, and others presented by researchers at UC Berkeley, LBNL and from our colleague...

He was born into the greatest family of artists in China! He is known as the Chinese Michelangelo! He is the only artist with an individual named Art Museum in 2012 Shanghai World Expo！ He has been Invited by United Nations for solo exhibition！ He is Renmin Zhu - an Artist beyond Our Time！ He is coming to Berkeley for lecturing He will share with you all his amazing artworks and unbelievable projects He will change your way to look at China and the whole world He may even change your way to think about your own life! We are welcoming you to our lectures! Please Come, don't miss it! Lecture Series Schedule: Lecture series:  Ecological Restoration through Art  ( http://summer.berkeley. edu/chinese-lecture-series ) 1. National Wetland Park (7/1...

Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff, Join me in welcoming Dan Pitera, Executive Director of the Detroit Collaborative Design Center at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture. He will be lecturing this Wednesday, April 4th in RM 112 at 6:30pm. I hope to see you all there! Cheers, TK Tim Kline :: Special Projects Analyst Department of Architecture :: UC Berkeley 232 Wurster Hall :: Berkeley, CA 94720-1800 p 510 664 4442 :: f 510 643 5607

Up Coming BERC Events - be sure to RSVP! Hello again, this is Jeffrey Wong from BERC (Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative) Undergrad and we are excited to invite you to our two flagship events of the semester.  We are organizing an Environmental Consulting Panel this Thursday, and a Speed Networking Panel happening next Monday. See below for details on both. Apologies for the somewhat late notice, but please do come check it (them) out!  Also, please forward this email to anyone you know who might be interested and invite your friends on Facebook to the event pages too! Environmental Consulting Panel: What: Environmental Consulting Career Panel presented by BEACN and BERC Undergrad Where: Haas C-220 When: Thursday, April 5th from 7:00pm-8:30pm Interested in a career in consulting?  Come listen to four professional environmental consultants...

Monday, February 27, 2012 PHIL FREELON: 6:30 PM IN ROOM 112 WURSTER HALL Pre-lecture reception at 5:30 PM, sponsored by SF NOMA Phil Freelon is the founder and president of The Freelon Group, Inc. Freelon’s work has been published in national professional journals including Architecture, Progressive Architecture, Architectural Record, and Contract magazine, which named him Designer of the Year for 2008. A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Freelon earned his Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in architecture from North Carolina State University and his Master of Architecture degree from MIT. Freelon also received a Loeb Fellowship and spent a year of independent study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at North Carolina State University’s College of Design and has been a visiting critic/lecturer at Harvard, MIT, the University of Maryland, Syracuse University, Auburn University, the University of Utah, the Californi...