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unusual facts about University of California Berkeley



Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganisms

Archaeal Richmond Mine acidophilic nanoorganisms (ARMAN) were first discovered in an extremely acidic mine located in northern California (Iron Mountain Mine) by Brett Baker in Jill Banfield's laboratory at the University of California Berkeley.

Berkeley Geochronology Center

It was originally a research group in the laboratory of University of California Berkeley geophysicist and geochronologist Garniss Curtis, now professor emeritus.

Bernard Judge

He has conducted housing research in a dozen countries around the world, taught design and lectured on environmental design at California State University, Long Beach, California Polytechnic Institute, Pomona, University of California Los Angeles, University of Southern California, Southern California Institute of Architecture, and University of California Berkeley.

Bruce R. Davis

In 1988, he developed SUGAR—a circuit analysis simulation tool named in allusion to University of California Berkeley's software called SPICE.

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

The school works in official partnership with the University of California Berkeley in the United States, the University for Peace in Costa Rica, the Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos (UNISINOS) in Brazil, the Beijing Institute of Technology in China, the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University) in Russia, and the Euro-Mediterranean University of Slovenia in Slovenia.

Gregory Hanlon

Trained in France at the Université de Bordeaux when the Annales School was at its height, since 1989 he has taught at Dalhousie University with teaching stints at the University of California Berkeley, Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne and the Université Laval (Québec).

Massimiano Bucchi

After graduating in sociology at the University of Trento, Italy, he pursued his studies in the United Kingdom at Sussex University and in the United States at University of Wisconsin and University of California Berkeley, receiving a doctorate in Political and Social Sciences at the European University Institute.

The Mother's International School

Students have also made it to prestigious universities abroad such as University of California, Los Angeles, Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Tech, Stanford University, University of Manchester, University of California Berkeley, University of Sheffield, London School of Economics, Oxford, Cambridge, McGill University, Technical University of Munich etc.


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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.