UC Berkeley (Audio)

Barney Frank, the 16-term former Congressman from Massachusetts joins Alex Gelber and Henry E. Brady of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley for a no-holds-barred review of his feats (and colleagues) on Capitol Hill. From being the first Member of Congress to publicly identify himself as gay, to Dodd-Frank, his signature bill addressing the 2008 financial crisis, and on to a thorough assessment of President Obama and the Federal Reserve, Frank displays his famous biting wit and fearless candor in this interview presented by the UC Public Policy Channel on UCTV. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29425]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29181]

First elected to Congress in 1980, Barney Frank represented Massachusetts’s 4th District for 32 years. He is known as a superb legislator and a pragmatic politician whose sharp intellect and sense of humor made him one of Washington’s most influential and colorful figures. While in Congress, Frank worked to adjust America’s spending priorities to reduce the deficit, provide less funding for the military and more for domestic programs. He argues here that the US could safely trim its military budget if American allies took more responsibility for their own defense.

As chair of the House Financial Services Committee, Frank was a key author of the 2010 Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. In 1987, Frank became the first member of Congress to voluntarily come out as openly gay, and in 2012 he married his longtime partner, becoming the nation’s first congressman in a same-sex marriage while in office. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29451]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29180]

The UC Berkeley Linguistics Department has led the way in the effort to document and preserve California's native languages. The Breath of Life Workshop for California Indian Languages is a biennial workshop designed for California Indians whose languages have no fluent speakers. The goal is for the participants to access, understand, and do research on materials on their languages, and to use them for language revitalization. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29321]

Alcoholism, as opposed to the safe consumption of alcohol, remains a major public health issue. Evolutionary biologist Robert Dudley discusses his new book, “The Drunken Monkey,” on the relationship of humans to alcohol and the social implications Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 29322]

Stories from around California produced by graduate students at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. Series: "California News Service (CNS)" [Humanities] [Show ID: 29179]

UC Berkeley incoming freshman attended a presentation addressing important issues faced by college students: sexual assault and harassment, mental health, and alcohol use. David Suratt, Berkeley's associate dean of students, welcomed students with a challenge and an invitation: to become active participants in managing the dangers of sexual violence and harassment, mental-health problems and alcohol abuse, to take responsibility for their own well-being and that of the larger campus community. Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29320]

Economic growth around the world is influenced by who is in the workforce and what they are paid. Women’s participation and compensation are shifting under the influence of social and economic trends at the national level and on a global scale. UC Berkeley Professor Laura Tyson shares some of her own experiences, observations, and analysis as she makes a case for greater gender parity for economic growth, including how economic policy can influence the recruitment and retention of women in workplaces worldwide. Series: "UC Berkeley Graduate Lectures" [Public Affairs] [Business] [Show ID: 29294]

Berkeley fellow Kweku Opoku-Agyemang's research in Ghana examines how the use of mobile survey-taking technology used by radio stations, can expand the public's political power.

Opoku-Agyemang is a Development Impact Lab Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies.

Series: "UC Berkeley News" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 29318]