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unusual facts about College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley



Ben Rich

After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.

Berkeley sockets

Only in 1989, however, could UC Berkeley release versions of its operating system and networking library free from the licensing constraints of AT&T Corporation's proprietary Unix.

Cadence SKILL

SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called “Franz Lisp” created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman.

California Management Review

California Management Review is a quarterly management journal affiliated with the Walter A. Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.

Chlorella

Many institutions began to research the algae, including the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, the NIH, UC Berkeley, the Atomic Energy Commission, and Stanford University.

Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning

The Master of Regional Planning (M.R.P.) professional program was ranked #2 in the nation according to Planetizen's 2012 Guide to Graduate Urban Planning Programs, ranking just below MIT and ahead of Rutgers and UC Berkeley.

Esther Baum Born

Her photography collection is held by the Getty Research Institute and the Environmental Design Archives at the University of California, Berkeley.

Farida Osman

She started swimming at the age of 5 alongside of her brother Ahmed Osman, currently a UC Berkeley Student, at the Gezira Sporting Club.

Heather Petri

In 1997 she was recruited by UC Berkeley coach Maureen O'Toole, and played collegiate water polo from 1997-2001.

James Schevill

In a 1950 letter to Robert Sproul, the president of the University of California, he refused to sign a loyalty oath, at the time a prerequisite to becoming an instructor at the UC Berkeley.

Jerry Estrin

Estrin received a B.A. in Russian History and Sociology from UCLA in the sixties, an M.A. in English from San Francisco State University in the seventies and an M.A. in Literacy Education from UC Berkeley in 1992.

Jock D. Mackinlay

Jock Mackinlay was born in Nuremberg, Germany and received his BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1986, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information.

Laura Quilter

She has worked at the Exploratorium, the Brennan Center Free Expression Policy Project at NYU, and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley, is a contributor to Chilling Effects, and created the Fair Use Network.

Lawrence Clark Powell

He received a BA from Occidental College in 1928, a doctorate from University of Burgundy in Dijon (Université de Bourgogne) in 1932, and Certificate of Librarianship from UC Berkeley in 1937.

Marcin Tarczyński

In 2010, Tarczynski attended UC Berkeley in Berkeley, California, where he majored in molecular biology, and played for the California Golden Bears swimming and diving team under head coach Dave Durden.

Martin Jay

He was closest to Leo Löwenthal who had provided him access to personal letters and documents that were crucial to Jay's research (Löwenthal would later chair the sociology department at Berkeley).

McClymonds High School

McClymonds' health center, founded by Children's Hospital doctor and UC Berkeley alumna Barbara Staggers and named after activist Chappell Hayes was opened in 2005.

Nice Work

Morris Zapp makes a cameo appearance in the last part of Nice Work, to add a plot twist where he tries to arrange for Robyn to have a job interview at his American university, Euphoric State (a fictionalized UC Berkeley), in order to stop his ex-wife from being a candidate for an open faculty position.

Nonie Darwish

She has spoken on numerous college campuses including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Tufts, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Oxford, Cornell, UCLA, NYU, Virginia Tech, Pepperdine, UC Berkeley and several others.

Onward State

Pitted against Onward State were seasoned blogs from UC Berkeley, Vassar, Wesleyan, Columbia, Georgetown, Middlebury, Yale, and an Ivy League conglomerate.

Oren Yiftachel

He has subsequently taught in urban planning, geography, political science and Middle East departments, at various institutions, including: Curtin University, Australia; the Technion, Israel; the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and UC Berkeley, in the United States; the University of Cape Town, South Africa and the University of Venice, Italy.

Red Mango

Daniel J. Kim, the company's Founder & Chief Concept Officer, graduated from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 1998, and first worked as an investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

SuperCamp

Presently, camps are held every summer at several college campuses throughout the United States, including Stanford University, UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, UC Berkeley, Wake Forest University, Loyola University Chicago, Kent State University, University of South Florida, and Brown University.

Thomas Dolliver Church

He oversaw the master planning of UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, Harvey Mudd College, Woodside Priory School, and the Wascana Centre in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Yehuda HaKohen

On November 13 2008, violence erupted between ZFA and the Students for Justice in Palestine at an Israel Liberation Week event taking place at UC Berkeley.


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