Berkeley Faculty Research Lectures

Inez Fung is a Professor of Atmospheric Science in the Department of Earth & Planetary Science and the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management. She studies the co-evolution of climate change and atmospheric carbon dioxide. Fung received her S.B. in applied mathematics and her Sc.D. in meteorology from MIT. She joined the Berkeley faculty in 1998 as the Founding Director of the Berkeley Center for Atmospheric Sciences. She is the subject of the biography Forecast Earth, part of the Women’s Adventures in Science series for middle-school-aged readers, launched by the National Academy of Sciences. She was also featured in the YouTube video, “What Could Happen in a World That’s 4 Degrees Warmer?,” sponsored by WIRED magazine.

Michael Nylan is the Jane K. Sather Chair in the Department of History. Her current work focuses on the political theories and practices of the early empires (323 BC–AD 316), where she finds abundant evidence that the Ancients were “in better shape” than we in the modern world. At present, she teaches courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels on conceptions of the body and body politic, on the environment and environmental ethics, and on the local administration outside the capital, at the county and sub-county level. All these topics she teaches from both received and excavated texts. Her latest books are a mammoth translation of the Documents classic (University of Washington Press, forthcoming) and a co-authored work entitled The Air We Breathe, The World We Want (under review).