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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 Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system.
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.
Sather Gate is a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of the University of California, Berkeley campus. The gate was donated by Jane K. Sather, a benefactor of the university, in memory of her late husband Peder Sather, a trustee of the College of California, which later became ...
Sather Tower is a bell tower with clocks on its four faces on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. It is more commonly known as The Campanile ( / ˌkæmpəˈniːli, - leɪ / KAMP-ə-NEE-lee, -lay, also US: / ˌkɑːm -/ KAHMP-) for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice. It is a recognizable symbol of the ...
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 ...
Zellerbach Hall is a multi-venue performance facility on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, west of Lower Sproul Plaza. It was designed by architect and professor Vernon DeMars and completed in 1968. The facility consists of two primary performance spaces: the 1,984-seat Zellerbach Auditorium, and the 500-seat Zellerbach ...
The UC Berkeley College of Chemistry is one of the fifteen schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. It houses the department of chemistry and the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering, [3] [4] both of which are ranked among the best in the world. [5] Its faculty and alumni have won 18 Nobel Prizes, 9 Wolf ...
(Google maps) BERKELEY, CA — University of California President Michael Drake has new digs. The UC system paid $6.5 million late last year for its president’s new home, Berkeleyside reports.