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Parents and Family Weekend

Homecoming offers more than football. Here's your chance to visit with your student, meet the Chancellor, hear lectures from Berkeley's distinguished professors, and connect with other parents.

Invitations will be mailed in early July 2008.

Events you don't want to miss

Friday, October 3

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5 – 7 p.m. Cal Parents Reception
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Saturday, October 4

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time TBA Cal vs. ASU Football Game
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3-1/2 hours before kickoff Bear Affair Barbeque
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8 – 9 a.m. Chancellor's Breakfast for Parents
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9 – 10 a.m. Expanding Their Horizons With Study Abroad
Speaker: Jan Kieling, Administrative Director, Berkeley Program for Study Abroad
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9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 100th Anniversary Celebration
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Friday, October 3

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8 a.m. – 5 p.m. University and Jepson Herbaria Open House
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8 a.m. – 7 p.m. Alumni House Open House
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8:30 a.m. – 7 p.m. Rec Sports Facility Open House
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9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Doe Library Open House
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9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Faculty Seminars - All Day
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9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Housing and Recovery When Disaster Strikes
Speaker: Mary Comerio, Chair, Department of Architecture; Professor of Architecture
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9:30 – 10:30 a.m. The World's Climate: A Global Problem with Economic Solutions
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Speaker: Maximilian Auffhammer, Assistant Professor, Agriculture and Resource Economics
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10 a.m. University and Jepson Herbaria Tour
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10 – 11 a.m. UC Police Department Tour
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10 – 11:30 a.m. Campus Walking Tour
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10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Open House
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11 a.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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11 – 11:45 a.m. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Docent Tour
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11 a.m. – noon Engineering the Future: New Stem Cell and Gene Therapies
Speaker: David Schaffer, Professor of Chemical Engineering
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11 a.m. – noon Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes for the New Millennium
Speaker: Ananya Roy, Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, International and Area Studies; Associate Professor, City and Regional Planning
Speaker: George Scharffenberger, Executive Director, Blum Center for Developing Economies
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11 a.m. – noon Museum of Paleontology Tour
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11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Ice Cream Giveaway
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11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Caltography Exhibit
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11 a.m. – 5 p.m. UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA)
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12:30 p.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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1 – 2 p.m. Lawrence Hall of Science Guided Tour
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1:30 p.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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2 p.m. University and Jepson Herbaria Tour
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2 – 3 p.m. Composing Japanese Musical Modernity
Speaker: Bonnie Wade, Professor of Music
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2 – 3 p.m. Power to the People: Robots and Representational Democracy
Speaker: Ken Goldberg, Director, Berkeley Center for New Media
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2 – 3 p.m. The Ghost of Mark Twain
Speaker: McAvoy Layne, Mark Twain Biographer & Performer
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2 – 3 p.m. The New and the Old: A Walking Tour of Campus
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2 – 3 p.m. The Obama Phenomena
Speaker: Charles Henry, Professor, African American Studies
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3 – 4 p.m. BAM/PFA Guided Tour of the Collections
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3 – 4 p.m. Lawrence Hall of Science Guided Tour
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3 – 4:30 p.m. History Walking Tour
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3:30 – 4:30 p.m. China's Internet Revolution
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Speaker: Xiao Qiang, Director of The China Internet Project; Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
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3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Corporate Responsibility: A Powerful Business Strategy
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3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Empowering Students to Change the World with Big Ideas
Speaker: Tom Kalil, Special Asst. to the Chancellor, Science & Tech.
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3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Guided Afternoon Stroll Around the Central Campus
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3:30 – 4:30 p.m. Water Water Everywhere, Nor Any Drop to Drink
Speaker: Isha Ray, Assistant Professor, Energy Resource Group
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5 – 6 p.m. Gamma-Ray Bursts -- Birth Cries of Black Holes!
Speaker: Alex Filippenko, Professor, Astronomy
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7 p.m. Homecoming Rally
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Saturday, October 4

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1-1/2 hours before kickoff Bear Walk to the Stadium
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2 hours before kickoff Cal Sustainability Walking Tour
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4 hours before kickoff 1868 Cal Avenue Homecoming Fair
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4 hours before kickoff Caltography Exhibit
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4 hours before kickoff Homecoming Carnival and Cubfest
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8 a.m. Alumni House Open House
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9 a.m. Faculty Seminars - All Day
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9 – 10 a.m. Integrating Teaching and Research to Study Bacteria
Speaker: Kathleen Ryan, Assistant Professor, Plan & Microbial Biology
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9 – 10 a.m. The Energy Biosciences Institute: Seeking a New World of Renewable Energy
Speaker: Chris Somerville, Director, Energy Biosciences Institute
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9 – 10 a.m. Travels From the Human Genome to Mars
Speaker: Richard Mathies, Professor of Chemistry,Director, Center for Analytical Biotechnology, Dean, College of Chemistry
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9 a.m. – 4 p.m. Art Display: A Century of Art and Scientific Illustration
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9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Doe Library Open House
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10 – 11 a.m. Parents Campus Tour
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10 – 11 a.m. Zellerbach Hall Backstage Tour
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10 – 11:30 a.m. Campus Walking Tour
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10 – 11:30 a.m. Political Rhetoric and Civility in the 2008 Presidential Election
Speaker: Henry Brady, Professor of Public Policy, Codirector of the Class of ’68 Center on Civility and Democratic Engagement at the Goldman School of Public Policy
Speaker: Bruce Cain, Heller Professor of Political Science; Director, Institute of Governmental Studies; Codirector of the Class of ’68 Center on Civility and Democratic
Speaker: Robert Reich, Professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy
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10 a.m. – noon Biodiversity Science and Education: Exploring the Historical Impact and Future of the MVZ
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10 a.m. – 3 p.m. Rec Sports Facility Open House
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10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Open House
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10:30 – 11 a.m. Looking Beyond the Classroom: Tips for Success at Cal
Speaker: Bernard Griego, MPH, Lecturer, School of Public Health
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10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Seeds of Science, Roots of Reading: Growing New Elementary Curriculum
Speaker: Jacqueline Barber, Associate Director, Lawrence Hall of Science
Speaker: P. David Pearson, Dean, Graduate School of Education
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10:30 – 11:30 a.m. The Aging of Baby Boomers: Are We Ready?
Speaker: Andrew Scharlach, Eugene and Rose Kleiner Professor of Aging
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10:30 – 11:30 a.m. The Energy Biosciences Institute: Discoveries and Solutions to Global Energy Problems
Speaker: Brian Wright, Professor, Dept. of Agriculture and Resource Econ.
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10:30 – 11:30 a.m. Web 2.0 Goes Mainstream Business
Speaker: Amy Shuen, Visiting Professor and Lecturer (1996-2000)
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11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Feed the Bears Tour
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Noon – 1 p.m. Secrets of the Sleep Brain: Overnight Improvements in Memory and Emotion
Speaker: Matt Walker, Director of the Sleep and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Psychology
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Noon – 3 p.m. Symposium: The Past and Future of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
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2 – 3 p.m. BAM/PFA Guided Tour of "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection"
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Sunday, October 5

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9:30 a.m. – noon Cal Parents Farewell Brunch
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10 – 11:30 a.m. The Cal Parents Fund Breakfast for Leadership Donors
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10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Alumni House Open House
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11 a.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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Noon – 4 p.m. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology Open House
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12:30 p.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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1 – 2:30 p.m. Campus Walking Tour
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1 – 5 p.m. Doe Library Open House
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1:30 p.m. UC Botanical Garden Tour
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2 – 3 p.m. BAM/PFA Guided Tour of "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Sigg Collection"
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3 p.m. Richard Goode, Piano Recital
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