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  Berkeley, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkeley is the site of the University of California, Berkeley, the flagship campus of the University of California, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Hall of Science, Space Sciences Laboratory, and Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, which are on the campus grounds.
Berkeley is traversed by the Hayward Fault, a major branch of the San Andreas Fault to the west.
Berkeley has a Mediterranean climate, with dry summers and wet winters as is typical in the Mediterranean region, but with a cool modification in summer thanks to upwelling ocean currents along the California coast.
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 University of California, Berkeley - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
In 1952 the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campus as part of a major restructuring of the UC system, and each campus was given its own Chancellor, and greater autonomy.
Berkeley has graduated more students who would go on to earn doctorates than any other university in the United States, and its enrollment of National Merit Scholars is third in the nation.
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 Berkeley, California - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Berkeley is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area of northern California, in the United States.
Berkeley is also serviced by the Berkeley Daily Planet, a free progressive daily newspaper which is a daily ritual for many residents on the throne.
Berkeley is the safest city of its size for pedestrians and cyclists, a fact that new research is attributing to a safety in numbers effect.
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 Berkeley Search Committee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Faculty representatives from UC Berkeley are William G. Oldham, professor of electrical engineering and computer science; Carol J. Clover, professor of Scandinavian and rhetoric, and C. Bradley Moore, professor of chemistry.
UC Berkeley alumni will be represented by Regent Richard L. Russell, who is also president of the alumni association.
UC Berkeley, founded in 1868 and the first campus in the UC system, is known internationally for academic excellence.
www.ucop.edu /ucophome/commserv/press/berkeley.html   (420 words)

  
 The Ultimate University of California, Berkeley - American History Information Guide and Reference
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
The oldest campus of the University of California, Berkeley is one of the world's leading research universities and has consistently ranked as one of the top academic institutions in the world.
This period of social unrest on campus could be traced to the Free Speech Movement, which originated on the Berkeley campus in 1964 and inspired the political and moral outlook of the Sixties.
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 University of California, Berkeley: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Graduate School of Journalism The uc berkeley graduate school of journalism is a graduate professional school at the university of california, berkeley designed to produce journalists with a two-year master of journalism degree....
The Associated Students of the University of California The associated students of the university of california (asuc) is the student body that manages events for uc berkeley....
University of California, Davis The university of california, davis, commonly abbreviated to uc davis or ucd is one of the ten university of california campuses....
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 University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, Berkeley, UCB, or UC Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate and its bridge.
Berkeley's 130-plus academic departments and programs are organized into 14 colleges and schools.
List of Nobel laureates associated with UC Berkeley
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 university of californi berkeley information,university of california berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, Berkeley,UCB, or UC Berkeley) is a public, coeducational university situated in the foothills of Berkeley, California on the eastern shore of the San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
In 1952 the University of California became an entity separate from the Berkeley campusas part of a major restructuring of the UC system, and each campus was given its own Chancellor, and greater autonomy.
According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks firstnationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields (97 percent) and first nationally in the number of"distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty (32 programs).
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 Berkeley, California Encyclopedia @ 209.68.55.254 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The primary activity of the ranch was the raising of cattle for meat and hides, but hunting and farming were also pursued.
Once a desired duration is selected and paid for, a sticker is printed that must be applied to the inside of the vehicle's window or windshield, depending on the side of the street.
The busiest stretch of Telegraph Avenue is in this neighborhood.
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 Berkeley College of Engineering - College Facts
UC Berkeley is the No. 2 engineering and information technology (IT) university in the world, according to rankings published by the Times Higher Education Supplement of London.
Berkeley's library is ranked third among public and private institutions (after Harvard and Yale) according to the 2002 Association of Research Libraries.
Berkeley's College of Engineering (COE) stands at the leading-edge of cross-disciplinary research, from societal-scale systems to bioengineering and nanotechnology.
www.coe.berkeley.edu /explore/facts.html   (674 words)

  
 'A beacon for other businesses': Berkeley alum Daryl Ross takes budget organic mainstream
Berkeley alum Daryl Ross in the main dining room of Adagia, his latest eatery near or on the Berkeley campus.
BERKELEY – Daryl Ross may have completed his bachelor's degree at UC Berkeley in 1985, after the standard four years, but in all the ways that count, he's never left.
His older sister attended Berkeley in the late '60s — "she had that whole experience of being gassed by [then-Governor] Ronald Reagan," Ross recalls — followed by Ross's older brother in the '70s.
www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/2005/08/24_ross.shtml   (1570 words)

  
 Nobel Memorial Prizes in Economics
In 1896, Alfred Nobel, the Swedish industrialist and inventor of dynamite, bequeathed his fortune to a foundation to create an annual prize for person "who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind." Nobel's will specified prizes in physics, chemistry, physiology/medicine, literature and peace.
By the mid-1980s, with the "doubtless" Nobel laureates either already rewarded or dead, it was natural for the awards committee to begin pacing itself somewhat and start scooping gems from a little bit below the cream.
A fourth objection is that the Nobel awards committee has its own agenda and doles out the awards with an eye to encourage the profession to move in a particular direction.
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 Alfred Twu's Tour of UC Berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
UC Berkeley is home to over 30,000 students, faculty, and staff, and has a history dating back to 1868.
This is of a total of 18 Nobel Laureates in UC Berkeley (8 of which as of 2002 are still faculty at UCB, and are the only faculty with on-campus parking).
Loafer's Guide to the UC Berkeley Campus (1994) Provides historical background as well as the origins of the names of some of the buildings on campus.
www.ocf.berkeley.edu /~atwu/firstcultural/berkeleyguide.html   (7999 words)

  
 List of University of California, Berkeley alumni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkeley is the setting for the film Boys and Girls starring Freddie Prinze Jr.
UC Berkeley is satirized in David Lodge's classic campus novel Changing Places (1975).
In The Wedding Planner (2001), Matthew McConaughey's character and Bridgette Wilson's character were claimed to have met as students at UC Berkeley.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_UC_Berkeley_alumni   (6044 words)

  
 Sproul Plaza: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Sproul Plaza is a major center of student activity at the University of California, Berkeley The university of california, berkeley (also known as cal, uc berkeley, ucb, or simply berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in the foothills of berkeley, california, usa...
The uc berkeley graduate school of journalism is a graduate professional school at the university of california, berkeley designed to produce journalists with a two-year master of journalism degree....
The Oski Yell The oski yell is the uc berkeley spirit yell from which berkeleys mascot, oski the bear, derives his name....
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 The Nobel laureates in economics are little-known but safe choices
The Nobel committee chose to award the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2000, more generally known as the Nobel Prize in economics, to two U.S. economists: James J. Heckman from the University of Chicago and Daniel L. McFadden from UC-Berkeley.
Some observers argue that in as ambiguous a discipline as economics, Nobel committees hedge their bets by choosing scholars whose work is uncontroversial or by alternating from one end of a perceived philosophical or political spectra to the other.
That was like simultaneously awarding one Nobel physics prize to Ptolemy for theorizing that the sun revolved around the Earth and another to Copernicus for arguing the opposite.
www.edlotterman.com /NobelEconomics2000.htm   (679 words)

  
 UC Berkeley In The News
In the last half-century, only a few of the literary Nobel laureates could be universally hailed as a great and inescapable choice.
The invitation to lecture at UC BERKELEY in 1960 was the entree to a new life, followed by a permanent faculty appointment in 1961.
Despite his education at UC BERKELEY, UC Santa Barbara and Yale University, Serra — who was born in San Francisco in 1939 to a working-class immigrant family and did a stint at a steel company during his college years — never forgets his roots....
newscenter.berkeley.edu /news/in_news/archives/20060328.shtml   (3416 words)

  
 Zellerbach Hall Uc Berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The College of Chemistry is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley.
Alumni who also served as faculty are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis.
Faculty who were also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parenthesis.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/223/zellerbach-hall-uc-berkeley.html   (1010 words)

  
 Uc Berkeley Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Kary Mullis, Ph.D. 1972 - Nobel laureate (1993, Chemistry)
Henry Taube, Ph.D. 1940 - Nobel laureate (1983, Chemistry)
Gerard Debreu - Nobel laureate (1983, economics), Professor of Economics and of Mathematics
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 Berkeley, California Biography,info
Berkeley replaced the broken meters with the "Sherman tank" of meters at a cost of over $2 million dollars[2].
By 2004 many of these replacement meters were jammed.
They are located every 4 to 10 parking spots and accept cash, coins, and even credit cards.
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