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One of the best-known examples of Simpson's paradox comes from a study of gender bias among graduate school admissions to University of California, Berkeley. The admission figures for the fall of 1973 showed that men applying were more likely than women to be admitted, and the difference was so large that it was unlikely to be due to chance ...
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 ...
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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
The decision by Berkeley, one of the nation's top law schools, marks another blow to the influential ratings service after Harvard and Yale took similar action on Wednesday, citing U.S. News ...
UC Berkeley reduced admission offers to all categories of first-year applicants — especially international students, who declined to 751 for fall 2024 from 1,129 from last year. Offers to ...
Richard Keyes, M.A. Painting, 1958 – professor emeritus at Long Beach City College, after a 30-year career there teaching life drawing and painting; Thomas Kinkade, B.A. – painter; Thomas W. Lentz, M.A. 1978 – art historian; Taro Masushio, B.A. – artist, writer; Malaquías Montoya, B.A 1969 – artist and professor emeritus at UC Davis [23]