August • 2009

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research in action:

working for the
people of
california

Is global warming making us sicker?

This special report highlights UC's research on the public health effects of climate change.

UC campus libraries together have more than 33 million volumes. In comparison, the Library of Congress has more than 32 million.
The UC libraries filled more than 22.7 million requests for articles from selected electronic journals last year.

Global group expands free online lectures

UC Berkeley is leading an international effort to make free videos and podcasts of university lectures and events easier to share with the public.

The Opencast Matterhorn project, funded with grants from the Andrew W. Mellon and William and Flora Hewlett foundations, is developing open source software to automate recording and posting of academic content on the Internet. Scheduled to be up and running by summer 2010, the platform will make free educational content available to learners throughout the world.

The project includes educational technology experts from UC, Cambridge University, the University of Osnabrück in Germany and others.

UC Berkeley has offered noncredit educational content to the public online since 2001 and was the first university to offer complete course lectures on YouTube.

Your University is produced 10 times per year by the Strategic Communications department of the University of California Office of the President. For suggestions or comments about this report, contact: Donna Hemmila, editor, 1111 Franklin St. 12th Floor, Oakland, Calif. 94607, 510.987.0793, donna.hemmila@ucop.edu

inside this issue

research in action:

working for the people of california

Global group expands free online lectures

working for the
people of
california