Changing the World, One Student at a Time

Come meet three Cal students who didn't wait for graduation to make their mark on the world. Join Mike Bishop, Director of Cal Corps Service Center, to hear their remarkable stories. Laura Stachel brought enhanced portable maternity wards to Nigeria, Caricia Catalani helped a poor New Orleans neighborhood document their post-Katrina plight, and Jacob Seigel-Boettner helped Rwandan coffee growers build a better distribution system—by bicycle.

Consume!

With a population pushing 7 billion and a skyrocketing per capita consumption, the Earth seems headed for ecological collapse. Is there a way out? Attend a lively debate on sustainable development with wine growers, California water resource experts, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientists developing alternative energy sources.

Truth and Lies

As the old saying goes, "Nothing is true, not even that." So what about the gray area between truth and lies? Join Neil Henry, Dean of the School of Journalism, and a panel of journalists, bloggers, and documentary filmmakers to investigate the question of how truth is decided.

About CALIFORNIA Live!

For more than a century, the Cal Alumni Association’s award-winning California magazine, has delivered thought-provoking articles, timely features, and compelling profiles of the people and traditions that make UC Berkeley the leading public research institution.

The magazine now proudly introduces CALIFORNIA Live! – a series of lectures and panel discussions that brings the theme of each issue to life. Guest speakers will include well-known authors, academics, filmmakers, scientists – Berkeley innovators from all fields whose ideas and actions inspire, challenge, and enlighten us.