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24 unusual facts about University of California, Berkeley


1958 California Golden Bears football team

The 1958 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley during the 1958 college football season.

1958 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

The Hawkeyes finished the season with a 7-1-1 record, as in 1957, but this year they would travel to Pasadena to play the Pacific Coast Conference champion California in the Rose Bowl.

2006 California Golden Bears football team

The 2006 California Golden Bears football team represented the University of California, Berkeley in the college football 2006–2007 season.

Cal played the next Saturday, October 7, for California's Homecoming weekend, against the undefeated #11 (in both the AP Poll and Coaches Poll) Oregon Ducks, a team that was 4–0, and 1–0 in Pac-10 play.

Benedikt Löwe

Löwe received his BA in mathematics and philosophy at the University of Hamburg and continued his studies at the University of Tübingen, the University of Berlin and Berkeley.

Curtis Jones

In 1991, he left a Master's program at UC-Berkeley to move back to Chicago, releasing his first song ("Coffee Pot" on ClubHouse Records) the same year.

Cy Gonick

Gonick was born in Canada, and attended university at Columbia and Berkeley in the 1960s.

Domestic Partner Task Force

Brougham and Warren, the latter of whom was an employee of University of California, Berkeley, brought their proposals to the City of Berkeley and the University of California.

Jelani Gardner

After playing high school basketball at St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California, Gardner played college basketball at the University of California.

K. P. H. Notoprojo

He moved to Valencia, California in 1971 and taught at the California Institute of the Arts until 1992, in addition to work at University of California, Berkeley, San Jose State University, and many other universities in the US and Canada.

Los Angeles Airways Flight 841

Among those killed was a group of nine vacationers from Ohio; a Hunt-Wesson Foods executive; the mayor of Red Bluff, California; and a University of California, Berkeley professor.

Mario Báncora

Thanks to the intervention of the American scientist Ernest Lawrence, Báncora was able to remain in the US after completing his studies and ended up at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was appointed member of the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory (currently known as the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory).

Matmos

Daniel successfully defended his dissertation on the literary cult of melancholy, directed by Janet Adelman at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of English at Johns Hopkins University.

Mount Mazama

Much of what is known of Mazama's geology comes from a study by Howel Williams of the University of California, Berkeley and later, from USGS geologist Charles R. Bacon who expanded and modified Williams' work.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

Purushottama Bilimoria

He is a Chancellor's Scholar and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Recovery-oriented computing

Recovery-oriented computing (sometimes abbreviated to ROC) is a method constructed at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley for developing reliable Internet services.

Reinhard Bendix

He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.

Ridwan Kamil

Excelling in undergraduate studies, he continued to study for a Master of Urban Design at the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley.

Sather

It originated circa 1990 at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) at the University of California, Berkeley, developed by an international team led by Steve Omohundro.

Sharing Space

The "bodies upon the gears" speech at the beginning of "The Movie's Over" was a speech given by Mario Savio in 1964 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Suriya Jungrungreangkit

Born in Bangkok, he learned at the Triam Udom Suksa School, Phrayathai, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Manufacturing Engineering in 1978.

TinyOS

TinyOS started as a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley in co-operation with Intel Research and Crossbow Technology, and has since grown to be an international consortium, the TinyOS Alliance.

Vilhelm Wohlert

Wohlert was also an educator, early in his career at University of California, Berkeley, and later for many years as a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.


Acanthognathus poinari

The holotype amber specimen, number H-10-135, is currently preserved in the amber collections of noted amber researcher George Poinar, Jr., which at the time of description were housed in the University of California, Berkeley.

Agustín Fuentes

Fuentes graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Anthropology and Zoology, as well as an M.A. and PhD in Anthropology, and has since been researching his main interests in the fields of biological anthropology and primatology.

Aidan Southall

Aside from teaching at Makarere University, Southall also taught at several other schools including the University of East Africa, the University of California, Syracuse University, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Arthur Torres

He holds a Bachelor's degree from UC Santa Cruz and a Juris Doctor from University of California, Davis School of Law (King Hall).

Barbara Berkeley, Viscountess Fitzhardinge

Mary Berkeley (bef. 1671 – 3 June 1741), married Walter Chetwynd, 1st Viscount Chetwynd of Bearhaven on 27 May 1703 in St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Church, Covent Garden, London.

Being and Time

Theodore Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time (Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993).

Ben Rich

After the war he started his college education when he was 21, majoring in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, followed by a master's degree in aeronautical engineering at UCLA, instead of in the medical field as he originally planned.

Bentorite

It was named for Yaakov Ben-Tor (1910–2002), Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Diego, California, USA, for his contributions to geology and mineralogy in Israel.

Berkeley Group

Berkeley Islands, also known as "Berkeley Group", located in Nunavut, Canada

Brian Baumgartner

In addition, Baumgartner performed regionally at the Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Children's Theater Company, and Theatre de la Jeune Lune.

Cadence SKILL

SKILL was originally based on a flavor of Lisp called “Franz Lisp” created at UC Berkeley by the students of Professor Richard J. Fateman.

Cadence Spalding

Cadence Spalding was born Jennifer Lynn Spalding in San Francisco, California to a father that read law at the University of California, Berkeley and a mother that had been a model.

Carl B. Koford

Carl Buckingham Koford (September 3, 1915 in Oakland, California – December 3, 1979 in Berkeley, California) was an American biologist who is known for his research work on the behavior of the California Condor.

Chicago Club

G. William Domhoff, professor of sociology at the University of California, ran a network analysis study on the membership of think tanks, policy-planning groups, social clubs, trade associations, and opinion-shaping groups across the country for a research project he was doing on San Francisco's Bohemian Club.

Dave Carpender

Dave Carpender (born 23 January 1950, Berkeley, California, died 26 September 2007) was the guitarist with The Greg Kihn Band from 1976 to 1983.

Davis Campus Cooperatives

Davis Campus Co-ops (DCC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide low-cost cooperative housing for students attending University of California, Davis.

Donald Pederson

Donald O. Pederson (September 30, 1925 – December 25, 2004) was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley and one of the designers of SPICE, the canonical integrated circuit simulator.

FFS2

FFS2, Unix File System, Berkeley Fast File System, the BSD Fast File System or FFS

Garniss Curtis

Garniss H. Curtis, (born May 27, 1919 ~ died December 19, 2012) was a professor emeritus of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, geochronologist, volcanologist, geophysicist, and founder of the Berkeley Geochronology Center.

Gerard C. Bond

He worked at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York as Head of the Deep-Sea Sample Repository, after teaching briefly at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts and the University of California, Davis.

Glaciers of Bhutan

The study, conducted by the Universities of California and Potsdam and published in the journal Nature Geoscience, was based on 286 glaciers along the Himalaya and Hindu Kush from Bhutan to the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

Gregory Minor

A native of Fresno, California, Minor received an electrical engineering degree from the University of California in 1960.

Henry F. May

Born in Denver, Colorado, he was reared in Berkeley, California and spent a formative year in Europe with his family as the youngest of three children.

HMS Berkeley Castle

Two ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Berkeley Castle after Berkeley Castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire.

Holy Hill

Holy Hill, a hill in Berkeley, California which is the site of a number of seminaries and the library of the Graduate Theological Union

Inktank Storage

CTO and founder Sage Weil started the open source Ceph project in 2004 for his doctoral dissertation at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

James Tarjan

Tarjan's last competitive tournament was the 1984 U.S. Championship at Berkeley, where he went out in style with a fine tied third, scoring 10.5/17.

Jane Vandenburgh

She is married to Jack Shoemaker, a Berkeley, California, book publisher (North Point Press, Counterpoint) who publishes Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry.

Joseph Polchinski

He graduated from Canyon del Oro High School in Tucson, Arizona in 1971, obtained his B.S. degree from Caltech in 1975, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980 under the supervision of Stanley Mandelstam.

Journal of Statistical Software

The Journal of Statistical Software was founded in 1996 by Jan de Leeuw of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Kirk Demorest

After studying cinema at University of California, Santa Barbara, he transferred to Art Center College of Design, Pasadena where he studied film alongside the likes of Tarsem Singh, Michael Bay, and Roger Avary.

Labor and Employment Relations Association

It originally consisted of about 100 researchers (economists; management, human resources, and labor relations researchers; attorneys, historians and sociologists) from 30 universities, including California-Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Illinois, Massachusetts (several campuses), MIT, Michigan, Michigan State, Northeastern, Rutgers, Stanford and UCLA, as well as universities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

Lars Svenonius

The other two papers include a characterization of theories having only one countable model, obtained also by the Polish logican Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, and results on prime models, obtained also by Robert Vaught at Berkeley.

Lisa Law

She and her husband, Tom Law, whom she met in 1965 at a Peter Paul & Mary concert in Berkeley, CA, lived together on a farm in Truchas, New Mexico for 12 years and had four children, Dhana Pilar, Solar Sat, Sunday Peaches & Jesse Lee Rainbow.

Loni Hancock

Serving as mayor for two terms, she balanced seven straight city budgets, forged a historic agreement between the city and the University of California, began the revitalization of downtown Berkeley, led efforts to secure additional open space and launched a Bio-Tech Academy at Berkeley High School (in partnership with Bayer).

Mario Radovan

He was a visiting scholar at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal in the year 1985/86; he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Scholarship for academic year 1997/98, which he spent at the University of California at Berkeley.

Montagu House, Portman Square

Occupying a site at the northwest corner of the square, in the angle between Gloucester Place and Upper Berkeley Street, it was built for Mrs Elizabeth Montagu, a wealthy widow and patroness of the arts, to the design of the neoclassicist architect James Stuart.

Motherpeace Tarot

It was created in the late 1970s by two women from Berkeley, California, Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble.

Proventricular Dilatation Disease

In July 2008, a team of researchers at the University of California, San Francisco was able to identify the virus that may cause PDD, which they have named Avian Bornavirus (ABV).

Robert Cornog

During World War II, Cornog designed magnetic equipment for ships and went to work on the Manhattan Project, successively at UC Berkeley, Princeton University and in Los Alamos, New Mexico.

Rockridge

The Rockridge Institute, a now-defunct progressive think tank formerly located in Berkeley, California

Rosebud Denovo

What Really Killed Rosebud?, Claire Burch, Regent Press Publishers (Berkeley) (2001), ISBN 091614769X

SAPIEN Technologies, Inc.

Group Telein wrote the software in Turbo Pascal, eventually moving their operations from their individual residences to an office in downtown Berkeley, California.

Shlomo Avineri

Avineri has had numerous visiting appointments including Yale University, Wesleyan University, Australian National University, Cornell University, University of California, The Queen's College, Oxford, Northwestern University, Cardozo School of Law, and Oxford and, most recently, the University of Toronto.

Stan Tatkin

Additionally, Dr. Tatkin trained in the Adult Attachment Interview through Mary Main and Erik Hesse’s program out of University of California, Berkeley and studied personally with Allan N. Schore, Ph.D.

Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science, which currently shares the distinction of being one of the top five Computer Science departments in the nation with Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Timeline of nuclear fusion

- August - Robert J. Burke presents updates to the SPRFD HIF process and Charles Helsley presents the Economics of SPRFD at the 19th International HIF Symposium at Berkeley, California.

Victor Anatolyevich Vassiliev

He has been a visiting professor at the University of Paris VII, and at the Mathematical Science Research Institute (MSRI) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wendy Barker

Her newest book, Nothing Between Us: The Berkeley Years, a novel in prose poems set in Berkeley in the sixties (Del Sol Press, 2009), has been called “unforgettably moving” by Sandra M. Gilbert; “a captivating page-turner” by Alicia Ostriker; and an “exciting tribute to a decade of change” by Denise Duhamel.

Zing-Yang Kuo

Kuo was a visiting professor of UC Berkeley, Yale University and the University of Rochester, and a researcher at Carnegie Institution in Washington, D.C..