President Robert C. Dynes
Speeches and Commentaries

Video letters to UC community

2008

• Remarks at All-UC Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alumni Event, San Francisco War Memorial Veterans Building (May 6, 2008)
• Final Report on UC “Promise & Power of 10” Campus Visits (Apr. 2008)
• Remarks at UC Academic Business Officers Group 2008 Conference, La Jolla (Apr. 7, 2008)
• “About our economic future” op-ed, Oakland Tribune (Jan. 31, 2008)
• Remarks at "Focus the Nation" Teach-In on climate change and enviornmental solutions, UC Davis (Jan. 31, 2008)
• Remarks at Coachella Valley Regional Outreach Visit, UC Riverside Palm Desert Graduate Center (Jan. 17, 2008)

2007
• Opening Remarks at California Public Utilities Commission Public Workshop on California Institute for Climate Solutions Proposal (Dec. 12, 2007)
• Remarks at Oakland Rotary Club Luncheon Meeting (Nov. 8, 2007)
• Keynote Address at Waseda University’s 125th Anniversary Celebration Tokyo, Japan (Oct. 21, 2007)
• Remarks at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s UC Celebration (Sep. 25, 2007)
• Remarks at Leadership in Energy and Environment Design Silver Plaque Ceremony, Oakland (August 28, 2007)
• Excerpts from a conversation with UC Student Association leaders, at 2007 UCSA Summer Congress, Santa Barbara (July 17, 2007)
• Remarks at Council of UC Staff Assemblies Celebration/Dinner, Los Angeles (June 7, 2007)
• Remarks on Generating a Pipeline of 21st-Century Talent, Innovation America Forum, Cupertino, CA (Apr. 17, 2007)
• Remarks on higher education executive compensation before state Senate Education Committee and Budget Subcommittee on Education (March 21, 2007)
• Remarks at Ventura County Regional Tour Community Luncheon UC Hansen Agricultural Center, Faulkner Farm, Santa Paula (January 26, 2007)
• Remarks at Kids Space and Science Adventure event for Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums' Inaugural (Jan. 8, 2007)

2006
• Remarks for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's 75th Anniversary Gala Dinner (Nov. 15, 2006)
• Remarks at Getty/COSMOS/Nobel Laureates Dinner (Nov. 6, 2006)
• Remarks at the California NAACP State Conference, Oakland Marriott (Oct. 28, 2006)
• "The University of California's Role in Maintaining the State's Long-Term Competitiveness," Keynote Address at Milken Institute's State of the State 2006 Conference (Oct. 30, 2006)
• Student Voter Registration Week, remarks at UC Student Association event, UC Irvine (Oct. 20, 2006)
• Remarks at Alumni Associations of the University of California Reception for Former UC Student Leaders (Sep. 28, 2006)
• Remarks at Sichuan University’s 110th Anniversary Ceremony (August 27, 2006)
• Remembrances at Memorial Service for UCSC Chancellor Denice D. Denton (June 29, 2006)
• Address to the U.S.-India Summit on Education, Research and Technology, UC San Diego (May 31, 2006)
• Address to the Rotary Club of Berkeley (Mar. 8, 2006)
• Testimony on UC's proposed 2006-07 budget before the State Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education (Mar. 27, 2006)
• Testimony on UC compensation before the State Senate Education Committee and Senate Budget Committee Subcomittee on Education (Feb. 22, 2006)
• Panel discussion of the California Master Plan for Higher Education, American Council on Education annual meeting (Feb. 14, 2006)
• Testimony on UC compensation before the State Senate Education Committee and Senate Budget Committee Subcomittee on Education (Feb. 8, 2006)
  
  2005
• Keynote address, 17th annual California Farm Bureau Federation (Dec. 5, 2005)
• Remarks at the inaugural ceremony for the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (Nov. 28, 2005)
• Keynote Address: Foreign Graduate Student Enrollment and the U.S. Economy, Universities and Security, UC Irvine Beckman Center (Oct. 17, 2005)
• Remarks at the UC Merced campus opening ceremony (Sept. 5, 2005)
• Keynote Address: "My Life in Physics," at the Second Canadian-American-Mexican Physics Graduate Student Conference (Aug. 20, 2005)
• Remarks on Los Alamos National Laboratory contract competition, Regents' meeting (May 25, 2005)
• Remarks on UC's role in keeping California competitive to the California Senate Education Committee's Subcommittee on Higher Education - testimony with UC Nobel laureates (May 11, 2005)
• Remarks on "International Partnerships and the Global Future of Higher Education," Saïd Business School Address -- Oxford University (April 25, 2005)
• Remarks on "Making the Grade in the Global Economy: California's Stake in Education" to the Commonwealth Club of California (Mar. 30, 2005)
• Remarks on UC's contribution to the state's economic and social progress, California Chamber of Commerce (Mar. 11, 2005)
• Remarks on the importance of research partnerships among government, industry, and universities (Feb. 16, 2005)
• Remarks to the California Chicano-Latino Intersegmental Convocation (Feb. 8, 2005)
• Remarks on state of the University to UC auditors' conference (Feb. 7, 2005)
  
  
2004
• Remarks to the Presidents and Regents Retirees Association (Oct. 27, 2004)
  
• Letter on voter registration and voting (Sep. 23, 2004)
  
• Remarks upon receiving honorary degree from the University of Western Ontario (June 9, 2004)
  
• Remarks to the Academic Business Officers Group on preserving UC's impact on California (April 27, 2004 )
  
• San Francisco Chronicle opinion piece on UC's impact on economic growth and health care (April 16, 2004)
  
• Web chat with Livermore lab staff (Mar. 30, 2004)
  
• Budget testimony to the state Senate (March 8, 2004)
  
• Memorial for President Emeritus Clark Kerr (Feb. 20, 2004)
  
• Message to national laboratory employees (Jan. 29, 2004)
  
• Remarks to the Board of Regents on the budget,
  undergraduate research, and the legacy of the
  Master Plan (Jan. 14, 2004)
  
• Remarks to the California Community Colleges Board
  of Governors on the value of intersegmental cooperation
  (Jan. 13, 2004)
  
  
2003
• Remarks to supporters of UC Merced (Dec. 9, 2003)
  
• Joint letter on proposed outreach cuts (Dec. 9, 2003)
  
• Message to members of the Academic Senate (Dec. 2003)
  
• Remarks to the UCLA Budget Forum on the centrality
  of higher education to California’s future (Dec. 1, 2003)
  
• Remarks to the Board of Regents regarding UC’s impact
  on California (Nov. 19, 2003)
  
• Remarks to the UC Faculty Outreach Conference
  (Nov. 7, 2003)
  
• Welcoming Remarks for the "Expanding Opportunity in
  Higher Education" Conference, sponsored by UC and the
  Harvard Civil Rights Project (Oct. 23, 2003)
  
• Web chat with UC students (Oct. 15, 2003)
  
• Web chat with UC employees (Oct. 14, 2003)
  
• Web chat with UC alumni (Oct. 8, 2003)
  
• Welcome message to UC community (Oct. 2, 2003)