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Notable alumni and students of the University of California, Berkeley, United States, in the areas of arts and media. Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year. Notable faculty members are listed at List of University of California, Berkeley faculty .
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
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.
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 four-story building is located southwest of Sather Tower.
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".
The University of California (UC) is a public land-grant research university system in the U.S. state of California.Headquartered in Oakland, the system is composed of its ten campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, Merced, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, and Santa Cruz, along with numerous research centers and academic centers abroad. [5]
Senior Hall is a historic building on the University of California, Berkeley campus, in Berkeley, California. The rustic log cabin structure was designed by architect John Galen Howard. The building was proposed in 1903 and dedicated in 1906. It was originally used as the university's student union and run by the senior
Pages in category "University of California, Berkeley buildings" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .