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In the 1988 film Die Hard (1988), Joseph Yashinobo Takagi (James Shigeta), President of Nakatomi Trading, is said to be a scholarship student at UC Berkeley, graduating in 1955. In the film Legally Blonde (2001), Harvard law student Enid Wexler earns a Ph.D. at UC Berkeley in women's studies, "emphasis in the history of combat".
Charles Anderson, BS Chemistry 1938 [85] – CEO and President (1958–1980) of Stanford Research International (known now as SRI International) [86]; Mitchell Baker, B.A. 1979, J.D. 1987 – current Chairperson and former CEO of the web browser company Mozilla Corporation, current Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation, recipient of the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award in 2008; [87 ...
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 ...
This 12-year-old and his older sister became the youngest students to enroll at Berkeley in 17 years. There's an even younger student -- an 11-year-old who began his freshman year at Texas ...
Leigh Steinberg- B.A. 1970, J.D. 1973 – innovative sports agent whose life story was fictionalized in the film Jerry Maguire; former UC student body president who wrangled with Ronald Reagan over the People's Park imbroglio; Allison Stokke Fowler – track and field athlete, female pole vaulter and fitness model, internet phenomenon
The University of California enrolled a record number of Californians in Fall 2024, while UC Berkeley joined UCLA in bucking national trends at elite institutions that saw declines in new Black ...
Among Berkeley engineering alumnae are a 2018 Nobel laureate, a 2008 Turing Award winner, a 2012 Turing Award winner, the first woman to receive a bachelor's degree in engineering from an American university, and the co-founders of Marvell Technology, Atheros Communications, and many other technology companies. [1] [13] [17] [18]
The Berkeley MBA Program is a two-year curriculum designed to prepare students for business leadership. In addition to its core curriculum and elective courses, Berkeley Haas requires all MBA students to take an Applied Innovation course, such as Haas@Work or International Business Development .