University of California, Berkeley

Sather Tower looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais.

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major university 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 acres with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres.^[1]

The university was founded in 1868 when the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College merged. Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities and 61 Nobel Laureates have been affiliated with the university as faculty, researchers and alumni. Berkeley physicists worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II and the university now manages the nation's two principal nuclear weapons laboratories: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. UC Berkeley has admitted both men and women since 1871.^[2]

Berkeley student-athletes compete intercollegiately as the California Golden Bears. The Cal Bears are a member of both the Atlantic Coast Conference and the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation in the NCAA, and have won national titles in many sports, including football, men's basketball, baseball, 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 Berkeley blue and California gold.

University Of California, Berkeley Media

View from Memorial Glade of Sather Tower (the Campanile), the center of Berkeley
The "Bodies Upon the Gears" speech (also known as "Operation of the Machine") given by Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall in 1964
Wheeler Hall, home to Berkeley's largest lecture hall, was the location of a Nobel Prize conferral during WWII.
The interior of the Hearst Mining Building, dedicated by Phoebe Hearst in honor of her late husband, George
The Doe Memorial Library is a library at the University of California, Berkeley.
Haas School of Business
The on-campus University of California Museum of Paleontology hosts a life-size replica of a T-rex.
Simplified evolution of Unix systems and BSD forks
Sather Gate, connecting Sproul Plaza to the inner campus, was a center of the Free Speech Movement.