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Berkeley has one of the oldest, most active and award-winning sections of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE); established in 1975, it has been recognized with the "Outstanding Collegiate Section Gold Mission Award" at the annual SWE national conference, which is the largest gathering for women in engineering and technology.
Michael Ralph Stonebraker (born October 11, 1943 [6]) is an American computer scientist specializing in database systems.Through a series of academic prototypes and commercial startups, Stonebraker's research and products are central to many relational databases.
Oski the Bear (Oski) is the official mascot of the University of California, Berkeley ("Cal"), representing the California Golden Bears. Named after the Oski Yell, [1] he made his debut at a freshman rally in the Greek Theatre on September 25, 1941. [2] [3] Prior to his debut, live bears were used as Cal mascots. [4]
Sproul Plaza as well as Sproul Hall are named for the last (1930–1952) University of California, Berkeley president, Robert Gordon Sproul.The Plaza was designed by landscape architect Lawrence Halprin in 1962.
Richard Kent Lyons (born 1961) is an American economist and academic, serving as the 12th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley. He was the 14th Dean of the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, until 2018. [1] In 2020, he became UC Berkeley's first Chief Innovation and Entrepreneurship Officer. [2]
The Berkeley Software Distribution or Berkeley Standard Distribution [1] (BSD) is a discontinued operating system based on Research Unix, developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley.
The Greek Theatre hosts The Berkeley Jazz Festival, pop, rock, and world music concerts, UC Berkeley graduation ceremonies, occasional addresses by noted speakers, and other events. Past speakers include President Theodore Roosevelt , William Randolph Hearst , Bishop Desmond Tutu , and the Dalai Lama .
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) is a federally funded research and development center in the hills of Berkeley, California, United States.Established in 1931 by the University of California (UC), the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by the UC system. [4]