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University of California, Berkeley

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University information
NameUniversity of California, Berkeley
Motto 
Motto in EnglishLet There be Light
EstablishedMarch 23, 1868
TypePublic
EndowmentUSD $2.34 billion (June 30, 2009)
ChancellorRobert J. Birgeneau
Under graduates25,530 (Fall 2009)
Post graduates10,313 (Fall 2009)
CityBerkeley
StateCA
CountryUSA
CampusUrban
6651 acre (26.9 km2)
NewspaperThe Daily Californian
Colors  Yale Blue
  California Gold
MascotOski the Bear
Athletics27 Varsity Teams
NCAA Division I
California Golden Bears
AffiliationsAAU
IARU
Pacific-10
University of California
Websiteberkeley.edu

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The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, Cal-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, the University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. The university occupies 6651 acre (2691.6 ha) with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acre (80.9 ha) in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Berkeley offers around 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines, and the university has the highest number of graduate programs ranked in the top 10 for their fields by the United States National Research Council. University faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 66 Nobel Prizes, 9 Wolf Prizes, 7 Fields Medals, 12 Turing Awards, 19 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes.

Cal student-athletes compete intercollegiately as the California Golden Bears. A member of both the Pacific-10 Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the NCAA, Cal students have won national titles in many sports, including football, men's basketball, baseball, men's gymnastics, softball, water polo, rugby, and crew. In addition, they have won over 100 Olympic medals. The official colors of the university and its athletic teams are Yale Blue and California Gold.

Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities. 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 the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Student body :
Demographics of student body
African American 3% 6.2% 12.1%
Asian American 42% 17% 12.3% 4.3%
White American 31% 42% 59.8% 65.8%
Hispanic American 12% 6% 35.9% 14.5%
Native American <1% 1% 0.7% 0.9%
International student 4% 18% N/A N/A

University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

AcademicsCollege of Chemistry * College of Engineering * College of Environmental Design * College of Letters and Science * College of Natural Resources * Goldman School of Public Policy * Haas School of Business * School of Education * School of Information * School of Journalism * School of Optometry * School of Public Health * School of Social Welfare * UC Berkeley School of Law
AthleticsGolden Bears (Football) * Oski * The Big Game * Stanford Axe * "The Play" * Memorial Stadium * Haas Pavilion
BuildingsBancroft Library * Botanical Garden * Bowles Hall * Doe Library * Evans Hall * Greek Theatre * Hearst Memorial Mining Building * Sather Gate * Campanile * Sproul Plaza * University House
ResearchLaboratories * Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute * Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory
LifeHistory * ASUC * Cal Band * Daily Californian * Housing * KALX * Dil Se * UC Men's Octet * California Golden Overtones * Noteworthy * UC Rally Committee * Bear Transit

Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10)

Arizona Wildcats * Arizona State Sun Devils * California Golden Bears * Oregon Ducks * Oregon State Beavers * Stanford Cardinal * UCLA Bruins * USC Trojans * Washington Huskies * Washington State Cougars
Future members: Colorado Buffaloes * Utah Utes

Association of American Universities (AAU)

PublicArizona * University of California (Berkeley, * Davis, * Irvine, * Los Angeles, * San Diego, * Santa Barbara) * Colorado * Florida * Georgia Tech * Illinois * Indiana * Iowa * Iowa State * Kansas * Maryland * Michigan * Michigan State * Minnesota * Missouri * Nebraska * State University of New York (Buffalo, * Stony Brook) * North Carolina * Ohio State * Oregon * Penn State * Pittsburgh * Purdue * Rutgers * Texas * Texas A&M * Virginia * Washington * Wisconsin
PrivateBrandeis * Brown * Caltech * Carnegie Mellon * Case Western * Chicago * Columbia * Cornell * Duke * Emory * Harvard * Johns Hopkins * MIT * Northwestern * NYU * Penn * Princeton * Rice * Rochester * USC * Stanford * Syracuse * Tulane * Vanderbilt * Wash U * Yale
CanadianMcGill * Toronto

Universities Research Association (URA)

United StatesAlabama * Arizona * Arizona State * Boston University * Brown * Buffalo * University of California (Berkeley, * Davis, * Irvine, * Los Angeles, * Riverside, * Santa Barbara, * San Diego) * Caltech * Carnegie Mellon * Case Western Reserve * Chicago * Colorado * Columbia * Cornell * Duke * Florida * Florida State * Harvard * Hawaii * Houston * IIT * Illinois * Indiana * Iowa * Iowa State * Johns Hopkins * LSU * Maryland * MIT * Michigan * Michigan State * Minnesota * Nebraska * New Mexico * New Mexico State * North Carolina * North Texas * Northeastern * Northern Illinois * Northwestern * Notre Dame * Ohio State * Oklahoma * Oregon * Penn * Penn State * Pittsburgh * Princeton * Purdue * Rice * Rochester * Rockefeller * Rutgers * SMU * South Carolina * Stanford * Stony Brook * Syracuse * Tennessee * University of Texas (Arlington, * Austin, * Dallas) * Texas A&M * Texas Tech * Tufts * Tulane * UIC * Utah * Vanderbilt * Virginia * Virginia Tech * Washington * Washington University * Wayne State * William & Mary * Wisconsin * Yale
InternationalMcGill * Pisa * Toronto * Waseda

Association of Pacific Rim Universities

ChinaFudan * HKUST * Nanjing * Peking * Tsinghua * Hong Kong * USTC * Zhejiang
JapanKeio * Kyoto * Osaka * Tohoku * Tokyo * Waseda
South KoreaSeoul National (SNU) * Korea (KU)
RussiaFar Eastern National (FENU)
CanadaBritish Columbia (UBC)
MexicoMonterrey Institute of Technology * UNAM
United StatesCaltech * Stanford * UC Berkeley * UC Davis * UC Irvine * UCLA * UCSD * UCSB * Oregon * Southern California (USC) * Washington
AustraliaAustralian National (ANU) * Melbourne * Sydney
New ZealandAuckland
ChileChile
IndonesiaIndonesia
MalaysiaMalaya
PhilippinesPhilippines (UP)
SingaporeNUS
TaiwanNational Taiwan (NTU)
ThailandChulalongkorn

International Alliance of Research Universities

ANU * UC Berkeley * Cambridge * Copenhagen * ETH Zurich * Oxford * Peking * NUS * Tokyo * Yale

Berkeley, California

NeighborhoodsBerkeley Marina * Claremont * Cragmont * Downtown Berkeley * Elmwood * Gourmet Ghetto * La Loma Park * Lorin District * Northside * Panoramic Hill * South Berkeley * Southside * Thousand Oaks * West Berkeley * Westbrae
EducationBerkeley City College * Berkeley High School * Berkeley Unified School District * Graduate Theological Union * University of California, Berkeley
Trunk roads and highwaysInterstate 80 * Interstate 580 * Piedmont Avenue * San Pablo Avenue (SR 123) * Solano Avenue * Telegraph Avenue
Public transportationAC Transit * Ashby BART * Bear Transit * Berkeley Amtrak Station * Downtown Berkeley BART * North Berkeley BART
PeopleList of people from Berkeley, California * List of Berkeley High School (Berkeley, California) people

Silicon Valley in California

CitiesCampbell * Cupertino * East Palo Alto * Fremont * Los Altos * Los Altos Hills * Los Gatos * Menlo Park * Milpitas * Mountain View * Newark * Palo Alto * Redwood City * San Jose * San Mateo * Santa Clara * Saratoga * Sunnyvale
Colleges and universitiesCarnegie Mellon Silicon Valley * Cogswell Polytechnical College * De Anza College * Evergreen Valley College * Foothill College * Menlo College * Mission College * Ohlone College * Silicon Valley Technical Institute * National Hispanic University * Northwestern Polytechnic University * San Jose City College * San Jose State University * Silicon Valley University * Santa Clara University * Stanford University * University of California, Berkeley * University of California, Santa Cruz
Companies (including subsidiaries and
defuncts based in or around the area)		3Com * Actuate * Adaptec * Adobe Systems * AMD * Agilent Technologies * Amdahl * Apple Inc. * Applied Materials * Aricent * Asus * Atari * Atmel * BEA Systems * Brocade . Business Objects * Cisco Systems * Computer Literacy Bookstore * Cypress Semiconductor * eBay * Electronic Arts * Facebook * Foundry Networks * Fry's Electronics * Fujitsu * Gaia Online * Geeknet * Google * Hewlett-Packard * Hitachi Global Storage Technologies * Intel * Intuit * Juniper Networks * Knight Ridder * Logitech * LSI Corporation * Magellan Navigation * Marvell Technology Group * Maxtor * McAfee * Memorex * Microsoft * National Semiconductor * Netscape * NetApp * NeXT * Nintendo of America * Nortel * Nvidia * Opera Software * OPPO Digital * Oracle Corporation * Palm, Inc. * PalmSource * PayPal * Rambus * Redback Networks * ReputationDefender * SAP AG * SanDisk * Silicon Graphics * Silicon Image Inc. * Solectron * Sony * SRI International * Sun Microsystems * Symantec * Symyx * Taligent * Tesla Motors * TiVo * WebEx * VeriSign * Veritas Software * VMware * Xilinx * Yahoo!

Chancellors of the University of California, Berkeley

Clark Kerr (1952) * Glenn T. Seaborg (1958) * Edward W. Strong (1961) * Martin E. Meyerson (1965) * Roger W. Heyns (1965) * Albert H. Bowker (1971) * Ira Michael Heyman (1980) * Chang-Lin Tien (1990) * Robert M. Berdahl (1997) * Robert J. Birgeneau (2004)



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