The February 1st announcement that BP had selected UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab to share in a $500 million research grant to create an Energy Biosciences Institute has raised a number of important issues and many questions. Therefore, the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate has scheduled a faculty forum to provide an opportunity to have an open discussion about the Institute and its implications for the campus. The Division has invited a panel of distinguished faculty to speak about academic freedom, shared governance, and corporate responsibility, as well as the specifics of the scientific issues in the venture. A question-and-answer and open-discussion period will follow.

Click Here to view the handout from the event: How Academic Freedom and Academic Principles are Preserved in Sponsored Research Agreements with Industry (PDF format).
Click Here for a list of the panelists and their biographies (PDF format).