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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.
In 1979, in Evans Hall, Berkeley graduate student Eric Allman wrote the Delivermail program, eventually turning it into Sendmail, the ubiquitous email program on the Internet. Evans Hall was the site of one of the world's most advanced computer architecture groups in the 1980's.
The school is located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus. It is composed of five departments: the Department of Architecture, the Department of City and Regional Planning, the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning, and the Institute of Urban & Regional Development.
The Berkeley Carillon originated as a twelve bell chime, cast in 1915 by John Taylor & Co of Loughborough, England.The original bells were a gift of Jane K. Sather, who also gave the university the Sather Tower (in which the bells were housed), Sather Gate (named for her husband the Norwegian-born banker Peder Sather), and endowed chairs in History and Classics.
The Hearst Memorial Mining Building at the University of California, Berkeley, is home to the university's Materials Science and Engineering Department, with research and teaching spaces for the subdisciplines of biomaterials; chemical and electrochemical materials; computational materials; electronic, magnetic, and optical materials; and structural materials. [3]
Campus tour guides often point out a small stone bear, sculpted by Michael H. Casey, [3] in the architecture of South Hall, on the balcony railing above the entrance, in the third circle from the left, claiming it is the smallest bear statue on campus.
The Naval Architecture Building is on the University of California Berkeley and is part of Blum Hall Complex, or Richard C. Blum Hall, completed in 2010, after Richard C. Blum. In 2004 the Naval Architecture Building was seismically updated, also a new three-story wing was built, desigened by Gensler Architects.
The University House is a residence and venue for official events on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.Designed by the architect Albert Pissis and completed in 1911, it was formerly named President's House while it served as the home of the president of the University of California, starting with Benjamin Ide Wheeler and ending with Robert Gordon Sproul.