- Ward Connerly
Wardell Connerly (born June 15, 1939) is a former University of California Regent, political activist, and businessman. He is also the founder and the chairman of the American Civil Rights Institute, a national non-profit organization in opposition to racial and gender preferences.. He is considered to be the man behind California's controversial Proposition 209 outlawing race and gender-based preferences in state hiring and state university admissions, … - John Yoo
John Yoo is a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he has taught since 1993. From 2001-03, he served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked on issues involving foreign affairs, national security, and the separation of powers. Professor Yoo received his B.A. summa cum laude in American history from Harvard. - Clark Kerr
Clark Kerr (May 17, 1911 - December 1, 2003) was the first Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1952-1958) and the 12th President of the University of California (1958-1967). - Jared Diamond
Jared Mason Diamond (b. 10 September, 1937) is an American evolutionary biologist, physiologist, biogeographer and nonfiction author. Diamond works as a professor of geography at UCLA. He is best known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Guns, Germs, and Steel" (1997). He also received the National Medal of Science in 1999 - Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American socialist organizer, professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party (BPP) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Davis's main association however, was her membership in the Communist Party USA. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, … - Barry Eichengreen
Barry Eichengreen is the George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1987. He is Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (London). He also is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the convener of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials. - Clifford Geertz
Clifford James Geertz was an American anthropologist and served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. - Bill Joy
Bill Joy served as Sun's Chief Scientist until 2003, and is now a partner with venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. - John Campbell
John Campbell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley, California. Before moving to Berkeley, Campbell taught at Oxford University for a number of years, eventually holding the Wilde Professorship in Mental Philosophy. Campbell specializes in the philosophy of mind with special emphasis on questions relating to perception. - Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish , M.D. Author of Love and Survival and Dr. Dean Ornish 's Program for the Reversal - John Russell
John Russell was an American actor most noted for playing Marshal Dan Troop in the western television series "Lawman" from 1958 to 1962. Born John Lawrence Russell in Los Angeles, California, he fit the Hollywood image of tall, dark, and handsome. He attended the University of California as a student athlete. Following the outbreak of World War II, he joined the United States Marines, received a battlefield commission as lieutenant at Guadacanal, … - Robert C. Dynes
Robert C. Dynes came to UCSD in 1992 after a 22-year career at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he served as department head of semiconductor and material physics research and director of chemical physics research. He subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Physics and Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. He became Chancellor in July 1996. Dynes is also active in the national scientific arena and in San Diego civic organizations. source - Julia Morgan
Julia Morgan was an American architect. She is best known for her work on Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Born in San Francisco, California, she was raised in Oakland and graduated from Oakland High School in 1890. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1894 with a degree in civil engineering. At the urging of her friend and mentor Bernard Maybeck, whom she met in her final year in undergraduate school, … - John Garamendi
A fast track medical school plan was presented by Lt. Gov. John Garamendi last month. Without a lower-cost alternative, Garamendi said it was likely the Merced medical school would be delayed and perhaps never opened at all as the state's budget crisis mounts. Garamendi is also an ex-officio member of the Board of Regents; his son, John Garamendi Jr . , works as the vice chancellor for University Relations at UC Merced. - Richard C. Atkinson
Richard C. Atkinson (born March 1929) served as the president of the University of California from 1995 to 2003. Currently, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the La Jolla Country Day School - Mark Wilson
Mark Wilson (born November 11, 1980 in San Jose, California) is an American football offensive tackle who currently plays for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He played college football for the University of California. - Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 - February 16, 1996) was the 32nd Governor of California, serving from 1959 to 1967. - Lev Manovich
Lev Manovich is Professor of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, USA where he teaches new media art and theory. His book "The Language of New Media" has received over 50 reviews in the USA and was translated into Italian, Korean, Polish, Spanish and Chinese. - Clifford Lynch
Clifford A. Lynch is the executive director for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) who lectures extensively in the US offering his perspective on trends concerning digital libraries, information policy, and emerging interoperability standards. Before his work with CNI, Lynch spent 18 years with the University of California. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, … - Pamela Samuelson
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor at the University of California at Berkeley with a joint appointment in the School of Information Management & Systems as well as in the School of Law where she is a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She teaches courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. - Fred Hoyle
Sir Frederick Hoyle, FRS, (born on June 24, 1915 in Gilstead, Yorkshire, England - August 20, 2001 in Bournemouth, England) was a British astronomer, notable for a number of his theories that run counter to current astronomical opinion, and a writer of science fiction, including a number of books co-authored by his son Geoffrey Hoyle. He spent most of his working life at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, and was director of the institute for a number of years. - Phoebe Hearst
Phoebe Apperson Hearst (December 3, 1842 - April 13, 1919) was the mother of William Randolph Hearst. She was born in Franklin County, Missouri. At the age of 19, she married George Hearst, who later became a U.S. Senator. Soon after their marriage the couple moved to San Francisco, California, where Phoebe gave birth to their only child, William Randolph Hearst, in 1863. A major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley in 1897, … - Carter
Carter (b. 1970, USA) is an artist based in New York. Carter studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art (BFA, 1992), the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (ME, 1994), and the University of California (MFA, 1997). Carter’s work has been exhibited in several shows such as at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and "USA today" at The Royal Academy in London. He is represented by Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco, … - Wen Ho Lee
Wen Ho Lee (born December 21, 1939) is a Taiwanese-born American scientist who worked for the University of California at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and was accused of stealing secrets about the U.S.'s nuclear arsenal for the People's Republic of China (PRC) in December 1999. After investigators dropped these original accusations, the government conducted a new investigation and charged Lee with improper handling of restricted data, … - Vern Paxson
Vern Paxson is a senior scientist with the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) Center for Internet Research, a non-profit research institute located in Berkeley, California. He is also a staff computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), where his research focuses on network intrusion detection systems (NIDS), Internet attacks, and Internet measurement. - Annalee Saxenian
Her prior publications include Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128 (Harvard University Press, 1994), Silicon Valley's New Immigrant Entrepreneurs (PPIC, 1999), and Local and Global Networks of Immigrant Professionals in Silicon Valley (PPIC, 2002). Saxenian holds a Doctorate in Political Science from MIT, a Master's in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley, and a BA in Economics from Williams College. - Michael Merzenich
Michael M. Merzenich is a neuroscientist from UCSF. His contributions to the field are numerous. He took the sensory cortex maps developed by his predecessors like Archie Tunturi, Clinton Woolsey, Vernon Mountcastle, Wade Marshall, and Philip Bard, and refined them using dense micro-electrode mapping techniques. Using this, he definitively showed there to be multiple somatotopic maps of the body in the postcentral sulcus, … - Michael Schudson
Michael Schudson is arguably the country's most respected scholar writing about newspapers and their relationship to society, politics and culture. He is the author of five books and editor of two others concerning the history and sociology of the American news media including the seminal " Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers a; " The Power of News "; " The Sociology of News "; " Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion "; and " Rethinking Popular Culture ." - Tomás Rivera
Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was chancellor of the University of California, Riverside, the first Mexican American to hold the position at any university of the University of California. He is best remembered for his 1971 Faulknerian stream-of-consciousness novella "Y no se lo tragó la tierra", translated into English as "...and the earth did not devour him". - Kary Mullis
Kary Banks Mullis, Ph.D. (born December 28, 1944) is an American biochemist and Nobel laureate. Dr Mullis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1993 for his development of the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR), a central technique in biochemistry and molecular biology which allows the amplification of specified DNA sequences. Dr Mullis subsequently was awarded the Japan Prize that same year. - Chang-Lin Tien
Chang-lin Tien, as the 8th Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley (1990–97), was the first Asian American and Chinese American to head a major U.S. university. Born in Wuhan, mainland China, Tien and his family fled to Taiwan in 1949 at the end of the Chinese Civil War. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Taiwan University in 1955 and went on to a fellowship at the University of Louisville in 1956, … - Riane Eisler
Dr. Eisler tells us that the current political, economic, and cultural categories are useless for creating conditions that support compassion and sustainability area. Thus, she began to recognize two systems of culture: the partnership system and the domination system. In the domination system, caring is devalued. In the partnership system, caring and compassion are two of the highest values. The real wealth of the nation is the contributions of people and nature. - Michael Ignatieff
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF announced his candidacy on April 7, 2006. He is a Toronto-born academic and author, who left his post as director of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University in August 2005 to teach at the University of Toronto. He now represents the Toronto riding of Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Ignatieff worked as a reporter for The Globe and Mail before going on to earn his PhD at Harvard. - Charles Thomas
Charles S. Thomas (September 28, 1897 - 1983) was a U.S. administrator. He served as Secretary of the Navy between May 3, 1954 and April 1, 1957. Thomas was born in Independence, Missouri, attended the University of California and Cornell. In addition to his government service, Thomas was director of several large corporations, including Lockheed. - Pauline Oliveros
Pauline Oliveros (born May 30, 1932 in Houston, Texas) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in just intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating; rather, each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled "Sonic Meditations". - Xiao Qiang
Xiao Qiang is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of China Digital Times, a Berkeley based China news portal, and the director of the China Internet Project at the Graduate School of Journalism of University of California at Berkeley. Xiao teaches classes on Participatory Media/Collective Action and Blogging China in both the Graduate School of Journalism and the School of Information of University of California at Berkeley. - Ernest Lawrence
Ernest Orlando Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel Laureate best known for his invention, utilization, and improvement of the cyclotron beginning in 1929, and his later work in uranium-isotope separation in the Manhattan Project. He had a long career at the University of California, Berkeley where he was a professor of physics. In 1939, Lawrence was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the cyclotron and its applications. - Gregory Benford
Has published over twenty books, mostly novels. Nearly all remain in print, some after a quarter of a century. His fiction has won many awards, including the Nebula Award for his novel Timescape. A winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, he is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, was Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, and in 1995 received the Lord Prize for contributions to science. - Michael V. Drake
Chancellor Drake, left, shared his views with the UC Staff Diversity Council Oct. 24. MORE » GREETINGS FROM CHANCELLOR DRAKE - Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
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