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47 unusual facts about University of California-Berkeley


1906 college football season

"I do not believe the present experiment in American college football can survive," said the President of the University of California, Jack Wheeler.

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 California Golden Bears football team

The 1958 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1958 college football season.

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.

Cal played the next Saturday, October 7, for California's Homecoming weekend, against the undefeated #11 (in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll) Oregon Ducks, a team that was 4–0, and 1–0 in Pac-10 play.

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.

Albert E. Carter

He taught school six years and then was graduated from the law department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1913.

Apprenticeship learning

Apprenticeship learning, or apprenticeship via inverse reinforcement learning (AIRP), is a concept in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, developed by Pieter Abbeel, Assistant Professor in Berkeley's EECS department, and Andrew Ng, Associate Professor in Stanford University's Computer Science Department.

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.

Brent Weinbach

He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and was formerly a Professional Jazz Pianist and Substitute Teacher.

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.

Chiripa

Since 1990 there has been research at Chiripa by the Taraco Archeological Project from the University of California, Berkeley.

Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve

It rises from a height of about 420 ft (130 m) above sea level, just behind the Clark Kerr campus of the University of California, Berkeley to the average 1300 ft (400 m) ridge of the East Bay hills, linking by way of other conserved land belonging to the University and the East Bay Municipal Utility District to other parks such as Tilden Regional Park and Sibley Volcanic Regional Preserve.

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.

Cy Gonick

Gonick was born in Canada, and attended university at Columbia and Berkeley in the 1960s.

David MacMillan

MacMillan began his independent research career as a member of the chemistry faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in July 1998.

Domestic Partner Task Force

Brougham and Warren, the latter of whom was an employee of University of California, Berkeley, brought their proposals to the City of Berkeley and the University of California.

Eric Scott Woods

He was born in Palo Alto, California, and maintained a degree in economics and finance from the University of California, Berkeley.

J Street U

In October 2013, J Street U was denied membership to the Jewish Student Union at University of California, Berkeley, for the second time.

Jelani Gardner

After playing high school basketball at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, Gardner played college basketball at the University of California.

Johann Christoph Denner

Only one extant clarinet, owned by the University of California, Berkeley has been attributed to him, and this attribution has been challenged.

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.

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.

Lynda Myles

She served as director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (1973–1980), director and curator of film at the Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Senior Vice–President at Columbia Pictures, Commissioning Editor for Drama at the BBC for two years, and as co-Executive Director of the East-West Producers' Seminar from 1990–1994, a training program for young producers in Eastern Europe.

Mario Báncora

Thanks to the intervention of the American scientist Ernest Lawrence, Báncora was able to remain in the US after completing his studies and ended up at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed member of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (currently known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Matmos

Daniel successfully defended his dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy, directed by Janet Adelman at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Mohammad-Javad Larijani

He later continued his studies outside Iran, in the Ph.D. program in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mount Mazama

Much of what is known of Mazama's geology comes from a study by Howel Williams of the University of California, Berkeley and later, from USGS geologist Charles R. Bacon who expanded and modified Williams' work.

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.

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.

Onward State

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

Peaceful Warrior

Set at U.C. Berkeley, the film stars Scott Mechlowicz as a troubled but talented gymnast who meets a spiritual guide.

Purushottama Bilimoria

He is a Chancellor's Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

QUEL query languages

It was created as a part of the Ingres DBMS effort at University of California, Berkeley, based on Codd's earlier suggested but not implemented Data Sub-Language ALPHA.

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.

Recovery-oriented computing

Recovery-oriented computing (sometimes abbreviated to ROC) is a method constructed at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley for developing reliable Internet services.

Reinhard Bendix

He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.

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.

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.

Sharing Space

The "bodies upon the gears" speech at the beginning of "The Movie's Over" was a speech given by Mario Savio in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Suriya Jungrungreangkit

Born in Bangkok, he learned at the Triam Udom Suksa School, Phrayathai, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering in 1978.

Tcl

The Tcl programming language was created in the spring of 1988 by John Ousterhout while working at the University of California, Berkeley.

TinyOS

TinyOS started as a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley in co-operation with Intel Research and Crossbow Technology, and has since grown to be an international consortium, the TinyOS Alliance.

Vilhelm Wohlert

Wohlert was also an educator, early in his career at University of California, Berkeley, and later for many years as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.

Wilson Marcy Powell

Wilson Marcy Powell (July 18, 1903 – March 2, 1974) was an American physicist and a member of the Physics department at the University of California, Berkeley.


A. King Dickson

The three wins were against the University of the Pacific, Santa Clara College, and the San Jose Normal School; the two losses were versus Berkeley and Stanford (1st teams?).

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.

Aidan Southall

Aside from teaching at Makarere University, Southall also taught at several other schools including the University of East Africa, the University of California, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Being and Time

Theodore Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

Benson Mates

Benson Mates (May 19, 1919, Portland, Oregon – May 14, 2009, Berkeley, California) was an American philosopher, noted for his work in logic, the history of philosophy, and skepticism.

Brian Baumgartner

In addition, Baumgartner performed regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children's Theater Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

Brian Druker

Dr. Druker earned both his BS in chemistry and MD from the University of California, San Diego.

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.

Castle Koon

The Koon shot of Operation Castle was a test of a University of California Radiation Laboratory designed thermonuclear device.

Charles Roland Berry

He studied music history and music composition at the University of California with and Peter Racine Fricker.

Chicago Club

G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Francisco's Bohemian Club.

Corneliu Coposu

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Stalinism pentru eternitate, Polirom, Iaşi, 2005 ISBN 973-681-899-3 (translation of Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003, ISBN 0-520-23747-1)

David Bromige

Leaving UC-Berkeley A.B.D., (All but dissertation), Bromige took a teaching position in the English Department at Sonoma State University in 1970.

Davis Campus Cooperatives

Davis Campus Co-ops (DCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide low-cost cooperative housing for students attending University of California, Davis.

Dorothy Buffum Chandler

Chandler served as a regent of the University of California from 1954 to 1968, during its period of most rapid growth, when the system grew from five to nine campuses.

Earl Morse Wilbur

Wilbur was the first dean 1904-1910; then president 1911-1931; and until 1934, professor of homiletics and practical theology at the Pacific Unitarian School for Ministry, Berkeley, California of the American Unitarian Association (AUA).

Emory Elliott

He was appointed to many academic societies including the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, Guggenheim, the National Humanities Center, and the Institute for the Humanities at the University of California, Irvine.

Ernest Addison Moody

He served as professor of philosophy at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he also served as department chair, and Columbia University.

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

Francis K. Shattuck

Shattuck was instrumental in getting the Central Pacific Railroad to construct a branch line into Berkeley in 1876 connecting the community and University of California with the main line and the railroad's ferry to San Francisco.

Fred Anhalt

Most Anhalt apartments, especially those he built in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle and Queen Anne neighborhoods such as Anhalt Arms (formerly Berkeley Court), feature landscaped interior courtyards.

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 Chang

Geoffrey Chang is a professor at the University of California, San Diego's Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine.

Gerard C. Bond

He worked at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York as Head of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository, after teaching briefly at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and the University of California, Davis.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

Holy Hill

Holy Hill, a hill in Berkeley, California which is the site of a number of seminaries and the library of the Graduate Theological Union

Kerri Strug

Shortly after her feat, Strug participated in the Ice Capades and Disney's World On Ice, then announced her retirement and enrolled in UCLA where she was a member of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

Kirk Demorest

After studying cinema at University of California, Santa Barbara, he transferred to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena where he studied film alongside the likes of Tarsem Singh, Michael Bay, and Roger Avary.

Lifespring

Studies commissioned by Lifespring in the 1980s by researchers at Berkeley, Stanford, and UCSF, including Lee Ross, Morton Lieberman, and Irvin Yalom, found that an overwhelming majority of participants in this training called it either "extremely valuable" or "valuable" (around 90%).

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Loni Hancock

Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the University of California, began the revitalization of downtown Berkeley, led efforts to secure additional open space and launched a Bio-Tech Academy at Berkeley High School (in partnership with Bayer).

Lucy Ward

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

M. C. Bradbrook

She held visiting professorships at numerous universities, including Santa Cruz, Tokyo, and Rhodes, South Africa, and received honorary degrees from many more.

Mario Radovan

He was a visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in the year 1985/86; he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for academic year 1997/98, which he spent at the University of California at Berkeley.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Naser Qureshi

He did his PhD in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara (Thesis: Therahertz dynamics in semiconductor heterostructures); A.B. in Physics from Princeton University (Thesis: High-Tc superconductivity); and a post-doctorate in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz (Ultrafast magnetism).

Proventricular Dilatation Disease

In July 2008, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco was able to identify the virus that may cause PDD, which they have named Avian Bornavirus (ABV).

Rogue Artists Ensemble

Rogue Artists Ensemble was founded in 2001 by students at the University of California, Irvine.

Rosebud Denovo

What Really Killed Rosebud?, Claire Burch, Regent Press Publishers (Berkeley) (2001), ISBN 091614769X

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).

SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

Group Telein wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, eventually moving their operations from their individual residences to an office in downtown Berkeley, California.

The Rhodopi International Theater Collective

It was founded by Karapetkov, Stein, RDT Artistic Director Krustyo Krustev, and American dramaturg Benjamin Nadler, with the partnership of the RDT, the Krastyo Sarafov National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts (NATFA) in Sofia, The HyperMedia Studio at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of Zagreb's Academy of Dramatic Art.

University of California Riverside 1985 laboratory raid

Veterinarian ophthalmologist Ned Buyukmihci of the University of California, Davis, and founder of Veterinarians for Animal Rights, said after he examined Britches that the sutures used were too large, the monkey's eye pads were dirty, and that, in his view, there was no justification for what he called a sloppy, painful experiment.