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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.
Berkeley has one of the oldest, most active and award-winning sections of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE); established in 1975, it has been recognized with the "Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Mission Award" at the annual SWE national conference, which is the largest gathering for women in engineering and technology.
A FAFSA fact sheet from a college information day at UC Berkeley in 2023. (Juliana Yamada / CalMatters) A few days before winter break, Lynda McGee, a college counselor at Downtown Magnets High ...
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.
Gilman Hall is a building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.Room 307 was where Glenn T. Seaborg and his coworkers identified plutonium [2] [3] as a new element on February 23, 1941 and as such, is designated a National Historic Landmark.
Attorney Nathan Hochman has "broad-based support" across many groups of potential L.A. County voters in his race against Dist. Atty. George Gascón, according to a new UC Berkeley poll cosponsored ...
California Memorial Stadium, also known simply and commonly as Memorial Stadium, is an outdoor college football stadium on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California.