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  Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - University of California, Berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
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.
www.fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/University_of_California,_Berkeley   (2835 words)

  
 University of California, Berkeley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkeley physicists played a key role in developing the atomic bomb during WWII and the hydrogen bomb soon afterwards, and the University has managed the nation's two principal nuclear weapons labs (now also used for more peaceful research) at Livermore and Los Alamos ever since.
The campus is bordered on the west by Downtown Berkeley, on the north by older neighborhoods, and on the east by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Berkeley Hills.
Berkeley has graduated more students who go on to earn doctorates than any other university in the United States, and its enrollment of National Merit Scholars was third in the nation until 2002, when participation in the National Merit program was discontinued.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley   (6292 words)

  
 University of California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges system.
The University of California and most of its campuses are members of the Association of American Universities (AAU), while the California State University and several of its campuses are members of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
The University of California is governed by the Regents of the University of California, as required by the current Constitution of the State of California.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/University_of_California   (3314 words)

  
 Learn more about University of California, Berkeley in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The University of California, Berkeley (also UCB, Cal, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley) is the flagship and original campus of the University of California, situated in Berkeley, California on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
University House on the north side of campus is home to chancellor, and the bank in front is landscaped with flowers forming a working clock.
The University currently boasts 127 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 101 members of the National Academy of Engineering, 8 Nobel Prize winners, 2 Fields Medal holders, 138 Guggenheim Fellows, 81 Fulbright Scholars, 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 19 MacArthur Fellows, 62 Sloan Fellows among a bevy of distinguished faculty.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/un/university_of_california__berkeley.html   (2848 words)

  
 University of California, Berkeley - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, UCB, UC Berkeley, The University of California, California, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated east of the San Francisco Bay in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate.
Founded in 1868, Berkeley enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical, and biological sciences in the 20th Century, leading to the development of the first cyclotron by Ernest O. Lawrence, the isolation of the human polio virus, and the discovery of numerous elements, including Plutonium, Berkelium, and Californium.
Berkeley has graduated more students who go on to earn doctorates than any other university in the United States, and its enrollment of National Merit Scholars was third in the nation prior to 2002, when participation in the National Merit program was discontinued.
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 Department of Sociology, University of California Berkeley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His current research agenda focuses on alternative family forms of racial intermarriage and same sex cohabitation in the U.S., and on the reasons for rising incidence of these alternative family forms.
Rosenfeld received his B.A. from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Berkeley sociology is conducting two faculty searches, one search for junior faculty, and one search for an assistant, tenured associate or full professor.
sociology.berkeley.edu   (155 words)

  
 University and Jepson Herbaria of UC Berkeley: Portal to Califoria Flora
The University and Jepson Herbaria of the University of California at Berkeley together house nearly 2,200,000 plant specimens, one of the largest collections in North America.
The Consortium of California Herbaria serves as a gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in herbaria throughout the state.
Evolutionary and systematic studies of Californian vascular plants are a major research focus of the Baldwin Lab in the Jepson Herbarium, where investigations of the highly diverse native tarweeds and their Hawaiian-silversword descendants continue apace.
ucjeps.berkeley.edu   (437 words)

  
 Rotary International: Rotary Centers for International Studies: University Partners
Founded in 1868, the University of California-Berkeley is one of the world's great international universities, renowned worldwide for the distinction of its faculty and students, the scope of its research and publications, and the quality of its libraries.
Berkeley faculty members have designed this certificate in response to Rotary's strong interest in supporting mid-career professionals with a serious, demonstrated interest in peace and conflict resolution.
Berkeley has 1,460 faculty in 14 colleges and schools, including the College of Environmental Design, Boalt Hall School of Law, College of Natural Resources, School of Public Health, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, and the School of Social Welfare.
www.rotary.org /foundation/educational/amb_scho/centers/partners/berkeley.html   (988 words)

  
 Delta Upsilon: Building Better Men Since 1834
Since 1896, the men of the California Chapter of Delta Upsilon have played an integral role in the history of the University of California, contributing to the Berkeley campus in the areas of academics, athletics, student government, and the leadership of a wide variety of organizations.
The California Chapter of Delta Upsilon is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley.
This site may contain trademarks which are the property of the Regents of the University of California and are used with permission.
www.ducalifornia.org   (180 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley • 970 Evans Hall #3840 • Berkeley, CA 94720-3840 USA • +1 (510) 642-6550 • +1 (510) 642-8204 (fax)
The Fall 2006 workshop in the program Lie Groups, Lie Algebras and Their Representations will take place on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, November 11 and 12, 2006.
This will be a joint workshop with the Representation Theory, Geometry and Combinatorics RTG at Berkeley.
math.berkeley.edu   (270 words)

  
 University of California, Berkeley, College of Chemistry
Chester T. O'Konski, a University of California, Berkeley, professor emeritus of chemistry who was one of the first chemists to study nucleic acids and proteins using physical chemistry methods, died at his home in El Cerrito, Calif., on Aug. 2.
The research center, launched this summer at Berkeley, seeks to make it as quick and easy to engineer biology as it now is to assemble microprocessors, hard drives and memory chips into a computer.
Koshland received his B.S. in chemistry at UC Berkeley in 1941, and his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Chicago in 1949.
chemistry.berkeley.edu   (1410 words)

  
 The Institute of Governmental Studies, UC Berkeley
Austin Ranney, a former chairman of the Berkeley political science department and a longtime affiliate and friend of IGS, died at the age of 85.
IGS and the University of California Press join together to launch the publication of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment, by IGS Visiting Scholar Peter Schrag.
Politics is a combination of luck and skill, former California Gov. Gray Davis told students during an IGS-sponsored visit to campus.
www.igs.berkeley.edu   (478 words)

  
 University of California, Berkeley News
News on University of California, Berkeley Sports continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
The University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears football team plays its first home game at 4 p.m.
California took a fairly big fall in this week's college football polls, though not big enough to keep the Golden Bears from being Minnesota's first ranked nonconference opponent in 10 years.
www.topix.net /ncaa/california   (652 words)

  
 Welcome to Berkeley Linguistics
After that time most linguistic work at U.C. Berkeley was done through the Anthropology Department where, under the direction of the noted anthropological linguist Alfred Kroeber, extensive efforts were devoted to the recording and describing of unwritten languages, especially American Indian languages spoken in California and elsewhere in the United States.
Constituted in 1953 by the distinguished Sanskrit and Dravidian scholar Murray Emeneau, and subsequently chaired by Mary Haas, a leading scholar of both American Indian and Asian languages, there are at present 15 faculty and 6 retired professors associated with the department.
With the approximately 50 graduate students in progress toward the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, Berkeley linguists remain committed to the empirical, historical, and theoretical study of linguistic structure within a broad linguistic, cultural, and cognitive context.
www.linguistics.berkeley.edu   (358 words)

  
 The Daily Californian
A former UC Berkeley contract employee who admitted to sexually groping students on campus over the summer while pretending to be a medical researcher was arraigned last week.
UC Berkeley, in partnership with UC Davis and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, may have a unique opportunity to work toward the development and production of cleaner biofuels.
UC Berkeley scientists are taking advantage of the rapid information transfer provided by wireless communication to improve real-time monitoring for everything from measuring rainfall in a meadow to tracking the health conditions of hospital patients.
www.dailycal.org   (478 words)

  
 University of California Office of the President
For more than a century, shared governance between the Board of Regents, the systemwide president and the faculty has ensured the highest standards of excellence in fulfilling the University of California's mission of teaching, research and public service.
The Office of the President is the systemwide headquarters of the University of California.
Private support is essential to the University of California's ability to maintain the high level of excellence and growth it is now experiencing...
www.ucop.edu   (205 words)

  
 California Golden Bears - Official Athletic Site
California evened its record at 1-1 with an impressive 42-17 victory over Big 10 foe Minnesota on Saturday evening at Memorial Stadium.
The 20th-ranked California men's soccer team (3-2-1 record, 0-0-0 Pac-10), hosts Dartmouth, Sacramento State and Stanford for the 10th annual adidas Cal Legacy Classic this Friday and Sunday on Goldman Field at Edwards Stadium.
The California women's golf team opened the 2006 season in a tie for sixth place at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic Tuesday at the Ptarmigan Country Club.
calbears.cstv.com   (339 words)

  
 Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences | UC Berkeley
Under the guidance of professors Richard Muller and James Demmel they designed and built the microscanner in the Microlab of the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC).
Alistair Sinclair was awarded the Fulkerson Prize for the paper "A polynomial-time approximation algorithm for the permanent of a matrix with nonnegative entries," coauthored with Mark Jerrum of the University of Edinburgh and Eric Vigoda of Georgia Tech., which appeared in JACM in 2004.
This is a prestigious prize awarded every three years for outstanding papers in the area of discrete mathematics, and is sponsored jointly by the Mathematical Programming Society and the American Mathematical Society.
www.eecs.berkeley.edu   (408 words)

  
 Berkeley Optometry Home Page
The Berkeley Optometry OD program will prepare you to meet the challenges of expanding primary eye care as the practice of optometry evolves over the coming decades.
Telemedicine: News profile of Berkeley Optometry faculty member Dr. Jorge Cuadros, who applies Telemedicine software in the treatment of diabetic patients in community clinics.
Focus E-Magazine: The Spring 2006 Issue of Berkeley Optometry Focus is available, with in-depth articles featuring students, staff, and faculty.
spectacle.berkeley.edu   (276 words)

  
 University of California Berkeley School Psychology
University of California, Berkeley's School Psychology Program is a Ph.D. program within the Area of Cognition and Development in the Graduate School of Education.
It is one of three programs in the state of California accredited* by the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer doctoral training in School Psychology.
The other two include a School Psychology program at the University of California, Riverside, and a Combined program in Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
www-gse.berkeley.edu /program/SP/sp.html   (207 words)

  
 University of California at Berkeley, Nuclear Fusion Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Berkeley research in magnetic confinement fusion focuses on theory, and experiments with the Berkeley Compact Toroidal Experiment.
Berkeley research in inertial confinement fusion supports national efforts to reach ignition in ICF targets, and to design power plants to harness energy these targets would produce.
Plasma sciences research at U.C. Berkeley focuses on the theory and application of plasmas in a range of important uses.
www.nuc.berkeley.edu /fusion/fusion.html   (201 words)

  
 Berkeley College of Engineering
Rising to a challenge to design creative strategies to solve campus and world problems, 29 teams of students have been awarded over $100,000 in prize money.
The winning proposals include a design for improved cook stoves for refugee camps in Darfur, blueprints for revamping a UC Berkeley campus plaza, and a strategy for using municipal waste materials to create electricity, ethanol and fertilizer.
Potential bomb attacks on aircraft could be more easily detected thanks to a new test for hydrogen peroxide, one of the liquids that have sparked dramatic security clampdowns at airports around the world, according to UC Berkeley researchers.
www.coe.berkeley.edu   (172 words)

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