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The University of California, Berkeley ( UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) [10] [11] is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. 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 ...
The events at Berkeley can be generally defined by three single yet interrelated social topics: the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and the Vietnam war protests in Berkeley, California. The Berkeley protests were not the first demonstrations to be held in and around the University of California Campus. Since before World War II ...
The history of the University of California, Berkeley, begins on October 13, 1849, with the adoption of the Constitution of California, which provided for the creation of a public university. On Charter Day, March 23, 1868, the signing of the Organic Act established the University of California, with the new institution inheriting the land and ...
The Vietnam Day Committee ( VDC) was a coalition of left-wing political groups, student groups, labour organizations, and pacifist religions in the United States of America that opposed the Vietnam War during the counterculture era. It was formed in Berkeley, California in the spring of 1965 by activist Jerry Rubin, and was active through the ...
Barbara Liskov, BA Math 1961, Turing Award laureate (2008) Jim Gray, B.S. 1966, Ph.D. 1969, Turing Award laureate (2001) Charles P. Thacker, BA Physics 1967, Turing Award laureate (2009) Leonard Adleman, BA Math 1969, PhD EECS 1976, Turing Award laureate (2002) Jay Miner, BS 1959, "father of the Amiga " computer.
Chancellors and Presidents. Paul Alivisatos, Ph.D. 1986 – former Provost of UC Berkeley (2017-2021), President of the University of Chicago (2021–present); Douglas J. Bennet, M.A. 1960 – President of Wesleyan University (1995–2007); former CEO of National Public Radio (1983–1993)
University Avenue runs from Berkeley's bayshore and marina in the west to the University of California campus in the east. College Avenue, running from the University of California from the north to Broadway in Oakland in the south close to the foothill, is a relatively quiet street compared with other major streets in Berkeley. It supports ...
Coordinates: 37.87411°N 122.26217°W. The campus of the University of California, Berkeley, and its surrounding community are home to a number of notable buildings by early 20th-century campus architect John Galen Howard, his peer Bernard Maybeck (best known for the San Francisco Palace of Fine Arts ), and their colleague Julia Morgan.