Monday, March 4, 2013
Richard A. Muller on Climate Change
Richard A. Muller, a MacArthur “genius” grant-winning physics professor at UC Berkeley, will speak on “A Converted Skeptic: Climate Change, Its Human Origins, and What We Can Do.”
Muller, an Earth sciences specialist who was originally a global warming skeptic, was given research funds by Charles Koch of the Koch Brothers, the billionaire businessman known for funding climate skeptic groups like the Heartland Institute, to study the issue. Rather than debunking the theory, Muller’s analysis convinced him that global warming is in fact a real phenomenon.
Muller’s talk, sponsored by the Antoinette and Vincent M. Dungan Lectureship in Energy and the Environment, will take place at 11:45 a.m. in Thorne Hall on the Occidental campus. It is free and open to the public.
In October 2011, Muller wrote in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal: “When we began our study, we felt that skeptics had raised legitimate issues, and we didn't know what we'd find. Our results turned out to be close to those published by prior groups. We think that means that those groups had truly been very careful in their work, despite their inability to convince some skeptics of that.”
“Global warming is real,” he concluded. “Perhaps our results will help cool this portion of the climate debate.”
Muller is a faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and was a member of the JASON Defense Advisory Group, which brings together prominent scientists as consultants for the U.S. Department of Defense.
He was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 1982, and received the Alan T. Waterman Award in 1978 from the National Science Foundation "for highly original and innovative research which has led to important discoveries and inventions in diverse areas of physics." He is the author, most recently, of Energy for Future Presidents: The Science Behind the Headlines (2012).
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Talking About Teaching - Beyond the Essay
Beyond the essay: the pedagogical value of non-traditional assignments and alternate forms of argumentation
At this Talking about Teaching lunch, a panel of Oxy faculty will talk about the non-traditional assignments and forms of argumentation they use in their courses: including conducting field interviews/oral histories, translations for community organizations, photography in the city, blogging, and constructing arguments using sound recordings, maps, or images. They will comment on the impetus behind the assignment, the shape of the assignment, the intended learning objectives, and, finally, the value of the assignment.
Lunch Included.
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Academy Inc. Info Session
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