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The Richmond Field Station (RFS) is a satellite campus of the University of California, Berkeley located in Richmond, California.The name was changed to the Richmond Bay Campus (RBC) in 2012 and then Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay (BGC) in October 2014, reflecting plans to expand the site to address global issues, first as a second campus for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL ...
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
Informally, the campus is called UC Berkeley, Berkeley, or Cal. More specifically, the campus uses the terms in the following ways: [62] "UC Berkeley" is the standard brand name for communications to the general public. The university's current brand identity standards call for "UC Berkeley" to be used in the first reference in any communication.
The college accepts transfer applications, although only 9% of the over 2,300 junior transfer applicants were admitted for the 2015/16 academic year. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Over 81% of undergraduates receive a bachelor's degree in four years, with over 90% doing so within six years. 85% of undergraduates admitted to the college graduate from the college ...
Gardner F. Williams, B.A. 1865, M.A. 1869 (first master's degree conferred by "College of California", aka UC/Berkeley) – first general manager of De Beers Consolidated Mines; mining engineer; wrote The Diamond Mines of South Africa; some account of their rise and development; awarded silver medal by the Royal Academy of Science in Sweden in ...
Underneath UC Berkeley's oldest buildings is a system of steam tunnels which carry steam for heat and power. [27] During the 1960s, Berkeley students chained the doorknobs of the Chancellor's office in protest over the Vietnam War. The Chancellor, having no other way in or out of the building, used the steam tunnels to escape.
Mark Berger, B.A. 1964 – recipient of four Academy Awards for sound mixing and adjunct professor at UC Berkeley [58]; John Dykstra – staff researcher (c. 1973–1975) at UC Berkeley's Institute of Urban and Regional Development, which developed computer-controlled cameras and associated technologies that were later adapted for the groundbreaking special effects in Star Wars and later films ...