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Construction of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building began in 1902, and the building was completed in 1907, with a dedication ceremony held on August 23 of that year. The $1.065 million construction cost was a gift of Phoebe Apperson Hearst , dedicated to the memory of her late husband, Senator George Hearst , who had made much of his fortune in ...
In 1970, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive opened on Bancroft Way across from the Hearst Gymnasium in a building designed by Mario J. Ciampi. In 2011, the building was named Woo Hon Fai Hall in 2011 in honor of the father of David Woo, a Hong Kong–based businessman and Berkeley alumnus who began his career as an architect on ...
Bear Transit is the bus service operated by the Department of Parking and Transportation of the University of California, Berkeley. [1] Its fleet includes a combination of shuttle vans and passenger buses (22', 35', and 40' cutaway buses), provided by MV Transit.
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [11] [12] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States.. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California sys
After much haggling and public discussion, BART agreed to turn the Hearst strip over to the City of Berkeley, leasing the land for one dollar per year. [3] The preservation of the park land and its formal name, "Ohlone Park" after the name of the local indigenous people, is credited to the efforts of a local couple, Alex and Martha Nicoloff.
The 2.2-acre (0.89-hectare) parking lot is the only undeveloped portion of the shellmound in West Berkeley, where ancestors of today's Ohlone people established the first human settlement on the ...
formerly "Structure of Merit" 123 Berkeley Tennis Club: 2624 Hillegass Avenue May 15, 1989 124 Byron Jackson Iron Works: 700–730 Parker Street, Bldg. 12 December 18, 1989 "Structure of Merit"; formerly Cutter Laboratories; demolished 125 John Albert Marshall House No. 3: 2744 Telegraph Avenue September 18, 1989
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -NASA affirmed on Wednesday a plan it set last year to work with Elon Musk's SpaceX in returning two astronauts from the International Space Station, saying it will do so "as ...