University of California, Berkeley
Educational Institution
Carter meets a test of strength A A and conquers it...to go all the way back to the beginning. In the spring of 2001, the buzz around the combine was that the highly touted senior from the University of California -- an exceedingly polite kid with a football pedigree -- was too light to play... In this article: Andre Carter, Rubin Carter, Bill Walsh, NFL, Jerry Rice, Knowshon Moreno, Redskins, Albert Haynesworth, and Denver Broncos |
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Reuters | 1 day ago
Canadian biofuel cuts emissions sharply -report
...result is just garbage." Among several reports that have been skeptical about biofuel, a 2005 study by Cornell University and University of California-Berkeley found that producing biofuel from corn and other crops uses much more...
In this article: Biofuel, Renewable Fuels Association, Waste, Biodiesel production, Cornell University, Husky Energy Inc, and Suncor Energy Inc
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Yahoo! News | 1 day ago
K.Rouge jail head makes shock demand for acquittal (AFP)
...it was a good day for the prosecution but an unfortunate day for justice and a very disappointing day for the victims," said Eric Holder, a human rights professor from the University of California at Berkeley, who is attending the trial.
In this article: Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, UN, Cambodia, Tuol Sleng, Allegation, and Cadre
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Medical News Today | 1 day ago
Addressing The Public Health Impacts Of Climate Change
...change threatens us all, but its impact will likely be greatest on the poorest communities in every country," said Kirk R. Smith, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, and author on several of the papers. "Carefully choosing how we...
In this article: Climate change, Carbon dioxide, The Lancet, Kathleen Sebelius, Medical advice, Fossil fuel, Dementia, Cardiovascular disease, Respiratory disease, and Stroke
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Sydney Morning Herald - World | 2 days ago
K.Rouge jail chief makes shock acquittal demand
...but an unfortunate day for justice and a very disappointing day for the victims," said Eric Holder, a human rights professor from the University of California at Berkeley, who is attending the trial. Pol Pot died in 1998. The joint...
In this article: Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, Tuol Sleng, Cambodia, Allegation, Cadre, and Eric Holder
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NPR | 4 days ago
California Town To Note Every Car Passing Through
...she says. Police run license-plate checks all the time, says Jennifer King, an expert in technology and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Tiburon's plan is to just run many plate checks. The problem, she...
In this article: California, Tiburon, and Golden Gate Bridge
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BBC News | 4 days ago
Climate' drives African conflict'
...are really sensitive to small shifts in temperature, even of half a degree (Celsius) or so," research leader Marshall Burke, from the University of California at Berkeley, told BBC News. "If the sub-Saharan climate continues to warm and...
In this article: Climate change, Africa, UN, Darfur, Bradford University, University of California at Berkeley, and Copenhagen
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TIME | 6 days ago
Ito in Berkeley: No Go
...on the way out the door it took down a project I was looking forward to. Earlier this week the University of California at Berkeley announced that it was giving up on its plan to build a new home for the Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film...
In this article: Toyo Ito, University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco Chronicle, University of California, Lehman Brothers, New York, and U.S.
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Charlotte Observer | November 20, 2009
Occupation of UC Berkeley building ends
Demonstrators struggle with police with a barricade in front of a closed off building on the University of California, Berkeley on the Berkeley, Calif., campus, Friday,. Nov. 20, 2009, during a...
In this article: California, Kgo-tv, and Mark Twain
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washingtonpost.com | November 20, 2009
Occupation of UC Berkeley building ends
In this article: California and Kgo-tv
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Description from Wikipedia:
The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies 6651 acre with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acre.
The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. Sixty-two Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers and alumni.
Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project which he personally headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II. Since that time, the university has managed or co-managed the Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as its later rival, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.
- Name:
- University of California, Berkeley
- Type:
- Public
- Location City:
- Berkeley
- State:
- CA
- Location Country:
- USA
- Founding Date:
- March 23, 1868
- Head:
- Robert J. Birgeneau
- Associated With:
- Pacific-10
- IARU
- AAU
- University of California
- Endowment:
- US$2.9 billion
- Motto:
- Let There be Light
- Campus:
- 6651 acre
- Mascot:
- Oski the Bear
- Colors:
- Yale Blue
- Undergrad:
- 24,636
- Postgrad:
- 10,317
- Nobel Laureates:
- 61
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