[104] The 2018–19 Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) ranked the university the top public university in the nation and fourth overall based on quality of education, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, influence, and citations. Established in 1868 as the state's first land-grant university, it was the first campus of the University of California system and a founding member of the Association of American Universities. DIVISION 2. Alumni have also served in many supranational posts, notable among which are President of the World Bank (Robert McNamara, BS); Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (Rodrigo Rato, MBA); Executive Director of UNICEF (Ann Veneman, MPP); member of the European Parliament (Bruno Megret, MS); and judge of the World Court (Joan Donoghue, JD). [210], The Golden Bears' traditional arch-rival is the Stanford Cardinal, and the most anticipated sporting event between the two universities is the annual football match dubbed the Big Game, celebrated with spirit events on both campuses. Alumni collectively have won at least twenty-five Pulitzer Prizes. ViolaWWW was the first browser to have embedded scriptable objects, stylesheets, and tables. [55] On the whole, Democrats outnumber Republicans on American university campuses by a ratio of 10:1. [23] The Organic Act states that the "University shall have for its design, to provide instruction and thorough and complete education in all departments of science, literature and art, industrial and professional pursuits, and general education, and also special courses of instruction in preparation for the professions". 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[59], Officially the University of California, Berkeley, its name is often shortened to Berkeley in general reference or in an academic context (www.berkeley.edu, Berkeley Law, Berkeley Haas) or to California or Cal, particularly when referring to its athletic teams (California Golden Bears). Physics professor J. Robert Oppenheimer was named scientific head of the Manhattan Project in 1942. The institute is now widely regarded as a leading center for collaborative mathematical research, drawing thousands of visiting researchers from around the world each year. Since 1933, the winner of the Big Game has been awarded custody of the Stanford Axe. The north fork appears just east of University House and runs through the glade north of the Valley Life Sciences Building, the original site of the Campus Arboretum. James Schamus (BA 1982, MA 1987, PhD 2003) has collaborated on screenplays with Oscar-winning director Ang Lee on the Academy Award–winning movies Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Brokeback Mountain. Its 14 colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate students. Opsware was cofounded by In Sik Rhee (BS EECS 1993). Other sporting games between these rivals have related names such as the Big Splash (water polo) or the Big Kick (soccer).[211]. In addition, the University also owns land to the northwest of the main campus, a 90-acre (36 ha) married student housing complex in the nearby town of Albany ("Albany Village" and the "Gill Tract"), and a field research station several miles to the north in Richmond, California. The Bancroft Library also houses the Mark Twain Papers,[87] the Oral History Center,[88] the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri[89] and the University Archives. Many of Howard's designs are recognized California Historical Landmarks[165] and are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Journalist Alexandra Berzon (MA 2006) won a Pulitzer Prize in 2009,[283] and journalist Matt Richtel (BA 1989), who also coauthors the comic strip Rudy Park under the pen name of "Theron Heir",[284] won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. The university has produced seven heads of state or government; five chief justices, including Chief Justice of the United States Earl Warren;[16] 21 cabinet-level officials; 11 governors; and 25 living billionaires. Find what to do today, this weekend, or in February. [205][206], The California Golden Bears have a long history of excellence in athletics, having won national titles in football, men's basketball, baseball, softball, men's and women's crew, men's gymnastics, men's tennis, men's and women's swimming, men's water polo, men's Judo, men's track, and men's rugby. [199] Further away and also on the south side of campus is Clark Kerr, an undergraduate residential complex that houses many student athletes and was once a school for the deaf and blind. Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is The Daily Californian. Undergraduate residence halls are located off-campus in the city of Berkeley. [201] Both of these teams participate in Formula SAE–run competitions, with the former focusing on internal combustion engines and the latter on electric motors. Cal students invented the college football tradition of card stunts. [136] Twenty-seven percent of admitted students receive federal Pell grants. LSI Logic was cofounded by Robert Walker (BS EE 1958). What You Can Do To Help Advance Racial Justice in America. Immediately southeast of campus lies fraternity row and beyond that the Clark Kerr Campus and an upscale residential area named Claremont. Tel: (585) 461-1280 Email Us Fax: (585) 461-4487 658 Park Avenue Rochester, NY 14607 Google Map [183] University-sanctioned fraternities and sororities comprise over 60 houses affiliated with four Greek councils. The campus is home to several a cappella groups, including Drawn to Scale, Artists in Resonance, Berkeley Dil Se, the UC Men's Octet, the California Golden Overtones, and Noteworthy. Karen Grassle (BA 1965) played the mother Caroline Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie, Jerry Mathers (BA 1974) starred in Leave it to Beaver, and Roxann Dawson (BA 1980) portrayed B'Elanna Torres on Star Trek: Voyager. Gregory Peck (BA 1939), nominated for four Oscars during his career, won an Oscar for acting in To Kill a Mockingbird. Alumni have acted in classic television series that are still broadcast on TV today. The area south of the university includes student housing and Telegraph Avenue, one of Berkeley's main shopping districts with stores, street vendors and restaurants catering to college students and tourists. It is run by students with a variety of backgrounds and majors. About three percent of undergraduate men and nine percent of undergraduate women—or 3,400 of total undergraduates—are active in Berekeley's Greek system. The festival later included high school musicians. The game was created as part of a 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and its rival the American Football League (AFL). [273] Eric Allman (BS 1977, MS 1980) created SendMail, a Unix mail transfer agent that delivers about 12 percent of the email in the world.[274]. Steve Wozniak, BS 1986, cofounder of Apple Inc. Gordon Moore, BS 1950, cofounder of semiconductor company Intel, Eric Schmidt, MS 1979, PhD 1982, Executive Chairman of Alphabet, Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr, BA 1961, Governor of California, former California Attorney General, Gregory Peck, BA 1939, Academy Award–winning actor, Natalie Coughlin, BA 2005, multiple gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer, Haakon Magnus, Crown Prince of Norway, BA 1999[213], Robert McNamara, BA 1937, President of World Bank (1968–81), United States Secretary of Defense (1961–68), President of Ford Motor Company (1960), Daniel Kahneman, PhD 1961, awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics for his work in Prospect theory, Harold Urey, PhD 1923, Nobel laureate and discoverer of deuterium. SanDisk was cofounded by Sanjay Mehrotra (BS 1978, MS EE 1980). [48][49][50], In the current century, Berkeley has become less politically active and more focused on entrepreneurship and fundraising, especially for STEM disciplines. [163] The winner was Frenchman Émile Bénard, however he refused to personally supervise the implementation of his plan and the task was subsequently given to architecture professor John Galen Howard. [305] Sports agent Leigh Steinberg ( BA 1970, JD 1973) has represented professional athletes such as Steve Young, Troy Aikman, and Oscar De La Hoya; Steinberg has been called the real-life inspiration[306] for the title character in the Oscar-winning[307] film Jerry Maguire (portrayed by Tom Cruise). [177] The hall was originally all male until its reopening in 2016 following a $45 million renovation. Outside of the Bay Area, the University owns various research laboratories and research forests in both northern and southern Sierra Nevada. Nobel laureate Yuan T. Lee (PhD 1965) developed the crossed molecular beam technique for studying chemical reactions. Sign Up for our Newsletter! [169], The University of California Marching Band, which has served the university since 1891, performs at every home football game and at select road games as well. [71] The most popular majors are Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Political Science, Molecular and Cell Biology, Environmental Science, and Economics. [12], Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. Any feedback about our products or service. The campus features numerous wooded areas, including: Founders' Rock, Faculty Glade, Grinnell Natural Area, and the Eucalyptus Grove, which is both the tallest stand of such trees in the world and the tallest stand of hardwood trees in North America. ; Sandra Black, BA; Jesse Rothstein, PhD; Robert Seamans, PhD; Jay Shambaugh, PhD; James Stock, MA, PhD); Governor of the Federal Reserve System (H. Robert Heller, PhD) and President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (William Dudley, PhD); Commissioners of the SEC (Troy A. Paredes, BA) and the FCC (Rachelle Chong, BA); and United States Surgeon General (Kenneth P. Moritsugu, MPH). Chris Innis (BA 1991) won the 2010 Oscar for film editing for her work on best picture winner, The Hurt Locker. athlete. Gifted by Mary McNear Bowles in 1929 to honor her late husband, Regent Philip E. Bowles, the college began as a student-governed residence hall. The Berkeley Forum is a nonpartisan student organization that hosts panels, debates, and speeches across a variety of fields. Berkeley's student-run online television station, CalTV, was formed in 2005 and broadcasts online. [3][10][11] Berkeley is ranked among the world's top universities by major educational publications. For 2020, QS World University Rankings places Berkeley fourth among all US universities and first among publics. [168], The official university mascot is Oski the Bear, who debuted in 1941. Bolt, Beranek and Newman was cofounded by, HTC Corporation and VIA Technologies were cofounded by. On May 1, 2014, Berkeley was named one of fifty-five higher education institutions under investigation by the, On July 25, 2019, Berkeley was removed from the, This page was last edited on 16 February 2021, at 19:39. [285] Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Leon Litwack (BA[286] 1951, PhD 1958) taught as a professor at UC Berkeley for 43 years;[287] three other UC Berkeley professors have also received the Pulitzer Prize. Berkeley Bowl Marketplace 2020 Oregon St. Berkeley, CA, 94703 (510) 843-6929. 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Undergraduate alumni have founded or cofounded such companies as Apple Computer,[237] Intel,[238] LSI Logic[239] The Gap,[240] MySpace,[241] PowerBar,[242] Berkeley Systems,[243] Bolt, Beranek and Newman[244] (which created a number of underlying technologies that govern the Internet), Chez Panisse,[245] GrandCentral (known now as Google Voice),[246] HTC Corporation,[247] VIA Technologies,[247] Marvell Technology Group,[248] MoveOn.org,[243] Opsware,[249] RedOctane,[250] Rimon Law P.C.,[251] SanDisk,[252] Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker,[253] VMware[254] and Zilog,[255] while graduate school alumni have cofounded companies such as DHL,[256] KeyHole Inc (known now as Google Earth),[257] Sun Microsystems,[258] and The Learning Company. Tennis athlete Helen Wills Moody (BA 1925) won 31 Grand Slam titles, including eight singles titles at Wimbledon. Cal finished the 2007–08 competition in seventh place with 1119 points. These requirements include an entry-level writing requirement before enrollment (typically fulfilled by minimum scores on standardized admissions exams such as the SAT or ACT), completing coursework on "American History and Institutions" before or after enrollment by taking an introductory class, passing an "American Cultures Breadth" class at Berkeley, as well as requirements for reading and composition and specific requirements declared by the department and school. One of the Rally Committee's functions is to repaint the Big "C" to its traditional color of King Alfred Yellow. The university's academic enterprise is organized into 14 colleges and schools, which, in turn, comprise 180 departments and 80 interdisciplinary units offering over 350 degree programs. Members of UC Berkeley's rocketry team, known as Space Enterprise at Berkeley (SEB), have developed and launched 3 solid-fuel sounding rockets and are currently developing a liquid bi-propellant rocket. The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California)[8][9] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. KeyHole Inc (known now as Google Earth) was cofounded by John Hanke (MBA 1996). Twelve vice chancellors report directly to Berkeley's chancellor, and the deans of the 14 colleges and schools report to the executive vice chancellor and provost, Berkeley's chief academic officer. Blue and Gold were specified and made the official colors of the university and the state colors of California in 1955. [236] Astronauts James van Hoften (BS 1966), Margaret Rhea Seddon (BA 1970), Leroy Chiao (BS 1983), and Rex Walheim (BS 1984) have orbited the earth in NASA's fleet of space shuttles. Simonyi later became the first repeat space tourist, blasting off on Russian Soyuz rockets to work at the International Space Station orbiting the earth. First used in the 1963 Big Game, it was originally placed on the sidelines before moving to Tightwad Hill in 1971. Paul Jacobs (BS 1984, MS 1986, PhD 1989 EECS) has been the CEO of Qualcomm since 2005. Bone); Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission (John A. McCone, BS); chair and members of the Council of Economic Advisors (Michael Boskin, BA, PhD. "[188] The organization was founded in 1887 and has an annual operating budget of $1.7 million (excluding the budget of the Graduate Assembly of the ASUC), in addition to various investment assets. Stone also wrote The Agony and the Ecstasy, which was later made into a film of the same name starring Oscar winner Charlton Heston as Michelangelo. [53][54] Democrats outnumber Republicans on the faculty by a ratio of 9:1. The Big "C" has its roots in an early 20th-century campus event called "Rush", which pitted the freshman and sophomore classes against each other in a race up Charter Hill that often developed into a wrestling match. However, in 1952, the university reorganized itself into a system of semi-autonomous campuses, with each campus having its own chief executive, a chancellor, who would, in turn, report to the president of the university system. There are at least 29 living alumni billionaires: Gordon Moore (Intel founder), James Harris Simons (Renaissance Technologies), Masayoshi Son (SoftBank),[309] Jon Stryker (Stryker Medical Equipment),[310] Eric Schmidt (former Google Chairman) and Wendy Schmidt, Michael Milken, Bassam Alghanim, Kutayba Alghanim,[311] Charles Simonyi (Microsoft), Cher Wang (HTC), Robert Haas (Levi Strauss & Co.), Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor (Interbank, Peru),[312] Fayez Sarofim, Daniel S. Loeb, Paul Merage, David Hindawi, Orion Hindawi, Bill Joy (computer programmer and Sun Microsystems founder), Victor Koo, Lowell Milken, Nathaniel Simons and Laura Baxter-Simons, Elizabeth Simons and Mark Heising,[313] Oleg Tinkov, Liong Tek Kwee (BS 1968), Liong Seen Kwee (BS 1974) and Alice Schwartz. More recently, alumni and their foundations have given to the university for operations and capital expenditures. To the west of the central campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; to the northwest is the neighborhood of North Berkeley, including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district known for high quality dining due to the presence of such world-renowned restaurants as Chez Panisse.
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