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unusual facts about University of California - Berkeley



1950 Rose Bowl

The 1950 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game played between Ohio State University and University of California at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California.

1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

The Hawkeyes finished the season with a 7-1-1 record, as in 1957, but this year they would travel to Pasadena to play the Pacific Coast Conference champion California in the Rose Bowl.

2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

Acanthognathus poinari

The holotype amber specimen, number H-10-135, is currently preserved in the amber collections of noted amber researcher George Poinar, Jr., which at the time of description were housed in the University of California, Berkeley.

Acharei Mot

Professor Jacob Milgrom, formerly of the University of California, Berkeley, taught that the evidence of the ethical impulse in the sacrificial system attained its zenith in Yom Kippur.

ADM-3A

-- might be true, but we need a source for "derives" --> and it was the dominant terminal in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley when Bill Joy originally wrote the C shell.

Agustín Fuentes

Fuentes graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Anthropology and Zoology, as well as an M.A. and PhD in Anthropology, and has since been researching his main interests in the fields of biological anthropology and primatology.

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.

Benedikt Löwe

Löwe received his BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Berlin and Berkeley.

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.

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

Chiura Obata

In 1950, he and his wife moved out of the attic apartment of a friend, purchasing a house in the Elmwood district in Berkeley, where they had lived before the war.

Curtis Jones

In 1991, he left a Master's program at UC-Berkeley to move back to Chicago, releasing his first song ("Coffee Pot" on ClubHouse Records) the same year.

Donald Pederson

Donald O. Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.

Dorothee Metlitzki

Dorothee Metlitzki (or Devora Metlitsky) (Königsberg, (East Prussia, July 27, 1914 - Berkeley, California, April 14, 2001) was a German born, later American, author and professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley and, for most of her career, at Yale University.

Garniss Curtis

Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 ~ died December 19, 2012) was a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

Geoffrey Marcy

Geoffrey W. Marcy (born September 29, 1954) is an American astronomer, who is currently Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, famous for discovering more extrasolar planets than anyone else, 70 out of the first 100 to be discovered, along with R. Paul Butler and Debra Fischer.

George Henry Burgess

The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth), Texas, the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California) and the Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park, California) are among the public collections holding works by George Henry Burgess.

Gerard Caris

He studied at the Monterey Peninsula College, California, the Monterey Institute of Foreign Studies and San José College (arts and humanities) subsequently at the University of California, Berkeley, a.o. with David Hockney, R.B. Kitaj, Elmer Bischoff and Richard Diebenkorn In 1967 B. A. in Philosophy, in 1969 M.A. in arts .

John William Gregg

John William Gregg (January 8, 1880, New Hampshire - 1969 Berkeley), was a 20th-century professor of landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Joseph Polchinski

He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

K. P. H. Notoprojo

He moved to Valencia, California in 1971 and taught at the California Institute of the Arts until 1992, in addition to work at University of California, Berkeley, San Jose State University, and many other universities in the US and Canada.

Larry Feign

He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, graduating with a B.A. in 1979, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.

Leslie Kurke

Leslie Kurke (born 1959) is a Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor, Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at University of California, Berkeley.

Los Angeles Airways Flight 841

Among those killed was a group of nine vacationers from Ohio; a Hunt-Wesson Foods executive; the mayor of Red Bluff, California; and a University of California, Berkeley professor.

Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems

Bill Godbout Electronics in Oakland, CA was the parts supplier to many of the hobbyists and students from Berkeley.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Nibs Price

After coaching at San Diego High School, he served as the head football coach at the University of California, Berkeley from 1926 to 1930, compiling the a record of 27–17–3, and the head men's basketball coach at Berkeley from 1924 to 1954, tallying a mark of 453–294.

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.

Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus

The overall project is led by a steering committee of Tinney, Eleanor Robson of Cambridge University, and Niek Veldhuis of the University of California, Berkeley

Pacific Steel

The Pacific Steel Casting Company is a steel foundry in West Berkeley, California, founded in 1934.

Paul Suni

He studied at University of California at Berkeley (Experimental Quantum Physics); Stanford University (Semiconductor Device Physics); the Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of Helsinki (Theoretical Physics) and Helsinki Conservatory of Music (Classical Piano and Music Theory).

Philip Palmer Green

He earned his doctorate from Berkeley in mathematics in 1976 with a dissertation on C*-algebra, but, like his colleague Eric Lander, transitioned from pure mathematics into applied work in biology and bioinformatics.

Purity test

Alan Dundes, a professor of anthropology and folklore at the University of California, Berkeley, and Carl R. Pagter included examples of purity tests in their 1975 book Work Hard and You Shall Be Rewarded: Urban Folklore from the Paperwork Empire.

Ralph Paffenbarger

Paffenbarger spent time at Harvard and the University of California, Berkeley, where he served as adjunct professor of epidemiology, before joining the faculty at the Stanford School of Medicine in 1977.

Ridwan Kamil

Excelling in undergraduate studies, he continued to study for a Master of Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

Rodney H. Banks

In 1980, he received his Ph.D. in inorganic/physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for Nobel laureate and fellow Perkin medal winner Glenn Seaborg on the synthesis and characterization of volatile actinide compounds.

Ruth Cardoso

As professor and researcher Cardoso taught at the Latin American College of Social Sciences (Flacso/Unesco), University of Chile (Santiago), Maison des Sciences de L'Homme (Paris), University of California, Berkeley, and Columbia University (New York).

Sarah Cain

She went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley receiving her MFA in studio art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006.

Sather

It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro.

South Berkeley, Berkeley, California

Grove Park and San Pablo Park have been the training grounds for many well-known athletes, including Don Barksdale, Claudell Washington, Phil Chenier, Shooty Babitt and Jason Kidd.

Stan Tatkin

Additionally, Dr. Tatkin trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse’s program out of University of California, Berkeley and studied personally with Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Stanegarth

The tug used to tow three dredging hoppers, each crewed by two men, on the trip to and from Gloucester to Purton.

Sun-Yung Alice Chang

She received her Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from National Taiwan University, and her doctorate in 1974 from the University of California, Berkeley.

Temasek Junior College

TJC students have been admitted to universities including MIT, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Cambridge, Oxford, Duke, LSE, University of Toronto, McGill, UCLA, Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, Peking University and Amherst.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Ulrich Walter

After two post-doc positions at the Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois, and the University of California at Berkeley, California, he was selected in 1987 to join the German astronaut team.

Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, and at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Walter Hyatt

Uncle Walt's Band gained a cult following around the world, ranging from the University of California - Berkeley to Moscow University in Russia.


see also

Ahmad Faruqui

He has taught economics at the University of California - Davis, San Jose State University, and Karachi University and lectured on national security issues at the Army War College, Naval Postgraduate School, Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Arthur Newton

A. Richard Newton (1951–2007), dean of the University of California, Berkeley College of Engineering

Asturian American

Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988), experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley.

Bernard Diamond

Bernard L. Diamond (1912–1990), psychiatrist and professor of law and psychiatry at the University of California, Berkeley

California Hall

It currently houses the University of California Berkeley Chancellor's Office and the Graduate Division.

Daniel Klein

Dan Klein, American professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley.

Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative

ECAI was established in 1997 by Emeritus Prof. Lewis Lancaster of the University of California, Berkeley, and has held two meetings per year most years from 1998 - 2009 (ongoing), one of which is often in conjunction with the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium.

Felix Bloch

At Stanford, he was the advisor of Carson D. Jeffries, who became a professor of Physics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Galen Tyrol

Tyrol's speech urging the union to strike shortly before the occupation begins is based on Mario Savio's "gears of the machine" address at the University of California, Berkeley.

Goldman School

Goldman School of Public Policy, a public policy school at the University of California, Berkeley.

Greater good

Greater Good Science Center, a research center at the University of California, Berkeley

Hazel Henderson

She has been Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara) and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley).

Institute of Industrial Relations

Institute for Industrial Relations of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, now the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

John Steel

John R. Steel, American mathematician at University of California, Berkeley

Julian Boyd

Julian C. Boyd (1931–2005), American linguist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley

Karl Bowman

During his career, Bowman was the chief medical officer at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital; an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (1921–1936); the chief of psychiatry at Bellevue Hospital (1936–1941); a professor of psychiatry at New York University Medical College (1936–1941); the first chairman and director of the Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (1941–1956); and a professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Kurt Rudolf Fischer

He became Chinese boxing champion and started studying Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley after World War II where he made friends with Paul Feyerabend.

Laura Tyson

In November, 2013, Tyson founded the Institute for Business and Social Impact at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

Logicomix

Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth is a graphic novel about the foundational quest in mathematics, written by Apostolos Doxiadis, author of Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture, and theoretical computer scientist Christos Papadimitriou of the University of California, Berkeley.

Lucy Ward

Lucy Ward Stebbins (1880–1955), Dean of Women at University of California, Berkeley

Lucy Ward Stebbins

She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1902 and worked in Massachusetts as a social worker until 1910 when she took the position as Assistant Dean of Women at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mordechai Rotenberg

Rotenberg has taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, the Jewish Theological Seminary, City University of New York and Yeshiva University.

Pat Adams

She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Berkeley in 1949 after which she took courses at the California College of Arts and Crafts, University of the Pacific and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Paul Kingsman

That year, he also earned a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, where his swimming developed a sharply competitive edge under the tutelage of coach Nort Thornton.

The Big C

The Big "C", a concrete block of the letter "C" overlooking the University of California, Berkeley

Theo de Raadt

Jolix, also known as 386BSD, was derived from the original University of California Berkeley's 4.3BSD release, while the new NetBSD project would merge relevant code from the Networking/2 and 386BSD releases.

Walter Gordon

Walter A. Gordon (1894–1976), African-American political figure and American football player for University of California, Berkeley

Walter Truett Anderson

He has also taught part-time at various institutions including the University of California, Berkeley; Saybrook University; the California School of Professional Psychology; and California State University, Northridge.

William A. Clemens, Jr.

Clemens' research supports a view contrary to the more familiar Alvarez hypothesis model of sudden catastrophic extinction precipitated by an asteroid, which was proposed in part by Walter Alvarez, also at the University of California, Berkeley, at the time.