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The University of California, Berkeley (also UCB, Cal, or Berkeley) is the flagship and original campus of the University of California, situated in Berkeley, California, overlooking the Golden Gate in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are over 33,000 students enrolled and over 1,800 faculty.
Chartered in 1868, the University gained notoriety worldwide nearly a century later for the student body's active protests against American involvement in the Vietnam War. 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 a generation. On a lighter cultural note, The Graduate, a seminal novel and movie of the era, was filmed on location at the university and nearby buildings in 1966.
Through the middle decades of the twentieth century, the Berkeley campus enjoyed a golden age in the physical, chemical and biological sciences. During that period, researchers affiliated with the campus discovered all the chemical_elements heavier than Uranium, garnering a number of Nobel Prizes for these efforts along the way. Two of the elements, Berkelium and Californium, were named in honor of the university. Another two, Lawrencium and Seaborgium, were named in honor of faculty members Ernest O. Lawrence and Glenn T. Seaborg.
Cal Berkeley's sports teams compete as the California Golden Bears (often referred to as "Cal"). They participate in the NCAA's Division I-A, and in the Pacific Ten Conference. The annual football Big Game between the Bears and the rival Stanford Cardinal is the most important game on Cal's schedule.
Cal Berkeley's independent student-run newspaper is the the Daily Californian.
Its current chancellor is Robert M. Berdahl[?].
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The campus layout was designed by Emile Benard[?], the winner of a world-wide competition sponsored by Phoebe Apperson Hearst[?] in the early 1900s. The campus and surrounding community host a number of notable buildings by turn-of-the-20th-century architects Bernard Maybeck[?] and Julia Morgan[?]. Historic buildings on campus include Sproul Hall, Hearst Mining Building, the Faculty Club, Doe Library, California Hall, Gilman Hall, Hilgard Hall, Wheeler Hall, South Hall and Hearst Women's Gymnasium.
The oldest building on campus is South Hall. Together with North Hall (which was destroyed in a fire), it was one of the first two buildings on campus. The university's tallest building is 307 Sather tower, a bell and clock tower also known as the Campanile (resembling the one in Venice).
See also : Evans Hall, Soda Hall, Cory Hall
According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields and first nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty.
In an interesting example of the confluence of intellectual ideas, many of the arguments for the efficacy of Open Source software development, and of the Wikipedia project itself, find parallels in writings on urban planning and architecture published in the late 1970s by Christopher Alexander, a Berkeley professor of architecture. Across campus around that same time period, John Searle, a Berkeley professor of philosophy, introduced a celebrated critique of Artificial Intelligence using the metaphor of a Chinese Room.
List of research projects conducted at Berkeley:
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