As it is November, which is the season for applications to graduate school, I have a special request of you this month. Do the world a favor, and ask a talented undergraduate out for coffee or tea. Talk to him or her about graduate school and ask about whether an application might be in the works. Sometimes students need a special nudge to prompt them to consider applying to graduate school. They need to know someone thinks they could bring something valuable to further study here or elsewhere.
The good feelings you derive from being helpful in this way will be magnified if you talk to a student who might not have even imagined applying to graduate school. Some students come from backgrounds where this is not the first option that comes to mind when nearing completion of a BA or BS.
If you're feeling really generous, you might even offer to read the student's statement of purpose or research interest, and offer feedback. You are an expert at navigating the process of applying to graduate school. It'll take perhaps an hour out of your day to try to pass along some encouragement and information to an undergraduate in your research lab or discussion section. You just might do the world a small favor in the process.
Best wishes,
Andrew J. Szeri
Dean of the Graduate Division
Disrupted by the wildfires?
- The campus has many ways to help graduate students
Survey in progress
- Assessing the needs of graduate student parents
A Starr is revealed on campus
A new library brings Berkeley’s huge East Asian collections together for the first time
Graduate Fellowships
- A wide menu of possibilities to help fund your graduate education
Calendar
- Upcoming events and workshops
Consortium for the Arts
- Call for proposals: grants for projects in the arts, 2008-2009
- Proposal preparation workshop
Graduate Assembly
- Fall reception November 8
- Info session November 15
Pacific Film Archive
- November at the PFA
UCTV
- Highlights of UC Berkeley programs in November
University Library
- Finding Library electronic resources
University Police (UCPD)
- How to stay informed of campuswide dangers
- Keep tabs on each other with People Locator
Greater Good Science Center
- Greater Good magazine’s latest issue and its graduate connections
Honors
- Berkeley has 10 new AAAS fellows, three of whom are Cal alumni
- U.N.’s Global Citizen Award’s the latest for grad alum inventor at LBNL
- Another top honor for UC’s “go-to guy”
Texture
- Notes, Links and Whatnot
By now, many of you will have seen Chancellor Birgeneau’s message regarding the Southern California wildfires. If you haven’t, the full text is online. It includes links to fire status, news coverage, and relief agencies, but also ways the campus can help students needing emergency financial assistance for travel to the affected area, loans through the Office of Financial Aid, and more.
If the wildfires have caused you to need assistance related to your graduate degree or other matters of graduate policy, please feel free to contact the Dean of the Graduate Division by email (graddean@berkeley.edu) or by phone (510-642-5472).
TopIn separate questionnaires, graduate students and their student affairs officers are being surveyed by the Graduate Assembly, with support from the Graduate Division, in order to learn about the needs and perceptions of student parents as they confront hurdles in their attempts to balance work and family obligations. If you have not been contacted but would like to participate in this effort, please click on the link below and answer the questions you’ll find online. In particular, you’ll be asked to answer a few questions about the graduate student parents in your department, in addition to various questions about Berkeley’s family-friendly policies. The survey should only take a few minutes to complete. If you have questions about the survey, email them to the Graduate Student Parent Project (family@GA.berkeley.edu).
Survey links:
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Dedication of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library, October 20, 2007. Where: north of Doe Library, across Memorial Glade, near Haviland Hall, on Observatory Hill below McCone Hall. How big: four floors, 68,000 gross square feet. Designed by: Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects. How much: $46.4 million. Private sources: more than a thousand donors, among them the C. V. Starr Foundation (cornerstone gift of $8 million, pivotal to the project) and a donor group honoring former Berkeley Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, the engineer-scholar who became the first Asian-American to lead a major U.S. research university (collective contribution more than $6 million). Named for: Cornelius Vander Starr (1892 - 1968), a Berkeley undergrad, who became an insurance pioneer with the American International Group with a deep interest in Asia. When open: to the public, early 2008; the move-in is already underway, very carefully. (Peg Skorpinski photo)
The treasures that will be making their way for the rest of 2007 into Berkeley’s newest library have for decades been scattered around the campus, often stored in less-than-ideal conditions. They include over 900,000 volumes of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean materials, the largest repository of academic materials on contemporary China outside of that country, and the largest collection of stone rubbings — some dating before the year 1000 — among all research libraries outside of Asia.
Now they will have a home, together, in the first freestanding library in the United States constructed exclusively for an East Asian collection. Its Henry Fong Rare Book Room contains a vault for the rarest of the rare, with temperature and humidity controls and modern security measures.
The push for such a facility came initially in the 1980s, from faculty in fields related to East Asia. Today, more than 70 Berkeley scholars teach over 200 courses concerning East Asia each year to more than 5,500 undergraduate and graduate students. This campus is one of the few institutions in the U.S. to offer five years in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language study.
Even in their former locations, with restricted hours of access, the library’s materials have been compelling. “When I graduate in spring 2008, the hardest part of leaving Berkeley will be saying farewell to the East Asian Library,” says Janice Kanemitsu, a Ph.D. candidate in Japanese studies who is researching Japan’s early modern period (1600 to 1868). “Not only does it have a vast collection of Japanese-language secondary scholarship in my field of specialization, I can also hold in my hands and read the very same books as readers of the Tokugawa period.”
Watch the library come together week by week, in sunlight and fog: Paul Hernandez, operations manager at the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library, began taking photos from his fourth floor office window in McCone Hall at the onset of construction in 2005. Hernandez came by his fascination with the progress of the building naturally, having worked in construction earlier in his career.
Note: Fellowships are listed chronologically by deadline date.
This program is designed to provide financial assistance to doctoral students in the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools during the summer months. The GDSG will fund students conducting research in preparation for their dissertations, writing dissertations, and international students enrolling in language study (U.S. citizens and permanent residents should apply for the Summer FLAS for language study). Applications for the 2008 competition are due on November 13, 2007; instructions can be found online. For questions about the fellowship, contact Michael Sacramento by email at msacram@berkeley.edu or phone (510) 642-7739.
This is a one-semester fellowship to fund doctoral candidates in the neurosciences relating to human development. Applicants must have demonstrated distinguished scholarship, as well as the ability to conduct research at an advanced level. Applications are due November 14, 2007, in the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall. Questions concerning the fellowship? Email Steve Salvidar at stevesalvidar@berkeley.edu.
This fellowship is awarded for the study of Byzantine, ancient, and medieval history. Advanced Berkeley graduate students studying in the general area of ancient history are invited to apply. A student can receive this award only once during his or her academic career. Applications are due November 14, 2007, in the Graduate Services: Fellowships Office, 318 Sproul Hall. Questions concerning the fellowship? Email Steve Salvidar at stevesalvidar@berkeley.edu.
A three-year award for U.S. citizens or nationals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This fellowship provides a $20,000 stipend, plus tuition and fees. Applications for the 2008 competition are due November 15, 2007. Instructions may be found online. For questions about the fellowship, contact Michael Sacramento by email at msacram@berkeley.edu or phone (510) 642-7739.
AAUW Fellowships provide dissertation and career development support for women in graduate programs who have achieved distinction or show the promise of distinction in their fields. Applications may be requested online. The application deadline is November 15, 2007.
A one-year dissertation award for U.S. citizens or nationals who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, are committed to a career in teaching and research at the college or university level, show promise of future achievement as scholars and teachers, and are well prepared to use diversity as a resource for enriching the education of all students. This fellowship provides a $21,000 stipend. Applications for the 2008 competition are due on November 29, 2007. Instructions may be found online.
These fellowships from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture are made for one academic year to support the final stages of completing a dissertation, typically in the fifth year of study. Applicants must have completed all doctoral requirements except for the thesis and should show evidence of being able to complete the thesis within the fellowship year. In 2008, the foundation will grant up to five fellowships ranging from $16,000 to $20,000, a significant funding increase from previous years. The application and guidelines have also changes from previous years, as has the timeline. Applications must be postmarked by or before Friday, November 30, 2007.
To be considered, applicants must be: African American; enrolled full time in a doctoral program in the life or physical sciences; engaged in and within 1-3 years of completing dissertation research; and a U.S. citizen or permanent resident. Postdoctoral Science Research Fellowships are also available. Applications and further information are available online. The application deadline is December 15, 2007.
Applications are now being accepted for the Willis W. and Ethel M. Clark Foundation Investment in Community Graduate Fellowship for 2008-2009. Up to $10,000 per academic year is awarded to students currently enrolled full time in a graduate program who have demonstrated a commitment to community service. Applicants must be directly connected to the Monterey Peninsula and intend to return to or remain connected through work and/or residence and community service. The Clark Foundation was incorporated in 1953 and has provided community service for more than half a century. Its founders were pioneers in the field of educational testing and research who started the California Test Bureau (now known as CTB/McGraw-Hill) in 1926. The fellowship may be renewed annually, but subsequent awards may be smaller than the initial award. Applications are due January 31, 2008. More information is available online.
Willis and Ethel Clark, pioneers in educational testing.The Schweitzer Fellowship was founded in 1940 to support Dr. Schweitzer’s medical work in Africa. In 1991, the organization launched its U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs, through which graduate students in health professions and related fields carry out direct service projects in underserved communities in this country. This is the program’s second year in California. As many as 16 fellows will be accepted in the Bay Area. Applicants must be enrolled in a degree program through March 2009. Apply online, where additional information is available (click on “U.S. Programs” for information and “Bay Area” for application). The application deadline is February 1, 2008. Information sessions will be held during October and November. For more information, contact Dale Ogar, director of the Bay Area Schweitzer Fellows Program, by email at daleogar@schweitzerfellowship.org or phone 510-642-2857. Note that eligible fields include not only all “health professions” (medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, social work, allied health professions, etc.) but also any other health-related field, including law, business, music, and the arts.
By the age of 29, Albert Schweitzer was the author of three books, a scholar in music, religion, and philosophy, an organist, a world authority on Bach, principal of a theological seminary, and a university professor with two doctorates. The next year, he decided to become a doctor and devote the rest of his life to direct service, helping Africans in desperate need of medical attention. He and his wife Hélène opened a hospital in Lambaréné, Gabon, where he worked until his death in 1965 at the age of 90. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952.
Photo: Dick Cortén
Denotes Graduate Division sponsored event
NOVEMBER 8 (Thursday)
Graduate Assembly Reception
6 to 8 p.m., Tilden Room, fifth floor, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Meet the Graduate Assembly staff, delegates, and other graduate students in a social setting over free beer, wine, and snacks. Cal ID and proof of age are required for those drinking. More information is available below and online (PDF).
Howison Lecturer Fred Dretske
NOVEMBER 14 (Wednesday)
Howison Lecture in Philosophy: “What We See”
4:10 p.m., Toll Room, Alumni House (just north of Zellerbach Playhouse)
Fred Dretske, professor emeritus of philosophy, Stanford University Renowned for his contributions in the fields of epistemology and the philosophy of the mind, Fred Dretske defends a form of externalism in both fields, arguing that the contents of thought and experience are, in part, fixed by the external (partly historical) relations between subject and environment. His current research focuses on the nature of conscious experience and the problem of understanding how knowledge of one's own conscious states is possible. In 1994, he was awarded the Jean Nicod Prize in Paris, which annually recognizes the contributions of a leading philosopher of mind. Describing this lecture, Dretske says, “We see (at least) three fundamentally different sorts of things: objects (a tomato), properties of these objects (the tomato's size, shape, color, orientation), and facts about them (that it is a tomato, that it is red). I shall be concerned with only the first: our perception of objects. I will furthermore restrict my topic by assuming, without argument, that the objects we see, in normal circumstances, are ordinary dry goods—tomatoes, pencils, people, trees and houses. I am interested in how many of these objects we see in brief, but attentive, observation. The answer to this question tells us something important about the nature of conscious perceptual experience.”
NOVEMBER 14 (Wednesday)
Workshop: “Nailing the Job Talk or Erudition Ain’t Enough”
5 to 6:30 p.m., 166 Barrows Hall
Andrew Green, Ph.D. counselor, survivor of the academic job market, and member of many search committees. After months of stressful silence, the voice on the other end of the phone says, “We’d like to invite you for an on-campus interview.” You gleefully discuss schedules, airports, and other arrangements until the voice mentions “and of course we’re all looking forward to your Job Talk,” and your stomach begins to spasm in new and creative ways.
This may be your last chance before you get on the plane to get answers to your questions about how to structure your presentation, how much detail to include, what level to pitch it (small college vs. university), what are they really looking for. Sponsored by the Career Center.
NOVEMBER 14 (Wednesday)
Workshop for proposal preparation: Grants for projects in the arts
4 p.m., 205 Dwinelle Annex (the brown-shingle building west of Dwinelle Hall)
Pregistration is required by November 8. Proposals for grants must be submitted by December 1. (For more information on the workshop and on submission, see below under Consortium for the Arts).
NOVEMBER 14, 21, and 28 (Wednesdays)
Workshop series: “Looking Beyond Academia”
5 to 6: 30 p.m., location to be announced
This series of three workshops helps identify and pursue professional opportunities outside academia. Topics include identifying options, translating the CV to a resume, job search, interview and salary negotiation strategies. Registration via email is required. More detailed information is online, or contact Debra Behrens by phone (510-642-8340) or email. Sponsored by the Career Center.
NOVEMBER 14, and DECEMBER 12
Arts, Neighborhoods, and Social Practice: A Colloquium (second and third parts)
Exploring the roles that arts and cultural activities can play in neighborhood improvement and community-building, these colloquia mark a new collaboration of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, the Department of City and Regional Planning, and the Berkeley Center for Community Innovation. They’re free and open to all. Light refreshments will be served. Each is on a Wednesday.
NOVEMBER 15 (Thursday)
Information session: Big Ideas @ Berkeley, Bears Breaking Boundaries
6:30 to 8:45 p.m., Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union
Speaker: Thomas Kalil, special assistant to the chancellor for science and technology.
Big Ideas @ Berkeley currently supports more than 90 projects and runs an annual campuswide competition for the best student ideas. Projects are tackled by Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students who are passionate about major global, regional, and local challenges such as clean energy, the environment, public health, safe drinking water, public policy, and technology-based entrepreneurship — with funding, support, and encouragement from Big Ideas @ Berkeley. Meet project leaders and learn more. Join a committee or the advisory board.
NOVEMBER 17 (Saturday)
Berkeley Build Day
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Edes Oakland Construction Worksite
Help build hope for low-income families with Cal Berkeley Habitat for Humanity. Registration is required. Lunch provided. Find out more from the event co-chairs.
NOVEMBER 22 and 23 (Thursday and Friday)
Thanksgiving holiday
DECEMBER 5 (Wednesday)
CITRIS Research Exchange: “Safe Drinking Water for Developing Countries”
Noon, 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Ashok Gadgil M.A. ’75, Ph.D. ‘79, senior staff scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and adjunct professor in the Energy and Resources group (see Honors). Free.
DECEMBER 20 (Thursday)
Deadline for filing dissertations and theses in Graduate Division
Deadline for applications for Ph.D. candidacy to receive the Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship for spring 2008 (if eligible)
FALL SEMESTER ENDS
Through its granting process, the Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley makes funds — usually in the $3,000 to $10,000 range — available to students, faculty, and staff of this campus for interdisciplinary arts-related projects taking place in the next academic year that will enhance the vitality of the arts on campus. Projects may involve bringing one or more visiting artists to the campus or may be collaborations among campus artists, producers, and scholars. In prior years, the consortium has supported a wide range of projects, including live performances, art exhibits, conferences, and symposia. The deadline for proposal submission is Saturday, December 1, 2007. Complete program information, a list of previously-funded projects, and application instructions are available online.
Anyone who is interested in preparing a proposal to the Consortium for the Arts is invited to attend this event and hear tips for successful proposals. Time will be allowed for questions about individual projects. Preregistration is required by November 8. If you can’t attend the workshop, individual consultations are available and encouraged.
To enroll in the workshop or for questions about project grants, email Michele Rabkin at micheler@berkeley.edu.
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Stephens Hall, window of the
Graduate Student Lounge
(Photo: Dick Cortén)
Thursday, November 8, 6 to 8 p.m., Tilden Room, fifth floor, Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union.
Meet the current team in your student government, the Graduate Assembly — the president, vice presidents, project coordinators, staff, and other graduate students in a social setting over free bottled beer, old world wine, snacks, and jazz music by Ryan Miyakawa. Find out what the GA has to offer you and make the most of your experience as a UC Berkeley graduate or professional student. Cal ID and proof of age are required for those drinking. More information is available online.
Thursday, November 15, 6 to 8 p.m., Graduate Student Lounge, 440 Stephens Hall. Thinking about getting involved with the Graduate Assembly? Find out more in person. Curious ahead of time? Email Josh Daniels at president@ga.berkeley.edu.
The Pacific Film Archive Theater is located at 2575 Bancroft Way. For more information, phone 510-642-5249 or visit the PFA online.
THROUGH DECEMBER 12
THROUGH DECEMBER 7
THROUGH DECEMBER 9
NOVEMBER 9, 10, and 11
NOVEMBER 15
NOVEMBER 16 – DECEMBER 2
The War on Terror and the Rule of Law
The Honorable A. Wallace Tashima examines the U.S. government’s War on Terror detention policies and procedures and concludes that their ad hoc and shifting nature have eroded both the perception and the reality of the U.S. commitment to the Rule of Law. A Jefferson Lecture presented by the Graduate Division and the Academic Senate’s Graduate Council. November 16 at 5 p.m. and, from December onward, via video-on-demand.
Conversations With History: Inside Muslim Militancy
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Fawaz A. Gerges for a discussion on the origins, evolution and future direction of Islamic militancy. November 16 at 6 p.m. and, from December onward, via video-on-demand.
UCTV brings you educational and enrichment programming from the campuses and national laboratories of the University of California. Options for viewing include:
UCTV has an extensive library of programs from the Graduate Council Lectures.
The Library subscribes to hundreds of online resources. In addition to the thousands of e-journals available through the E-Journal A-Z list, the Library subscribes to online databases, e-book packages and other reference sources. Find out what the Library offers by checking out the Electronic Resource Finder. Here you'll find more than 200 article databases – anything from the JSTOR and PubMed to the Smoking and Health database and the Annual Egyptological Database. Resources are also listed by publication types such as Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers, Thesis and Dissertation Databases and News Databases. You can check selected online resources by broad academic subject. In other words, pick your subject and see what the most significant article databases in that area are.
The Library continues to add e-resources. To find out the latest e-acquistions, check out What's New.
As described in the last issue of eGrad, the UC Police Department offers a number of ways to stay informed of crime activity on campus. The Berkeley campus also has detailed and effective protocols in place that will be activated if a major campus-wide danger is determined. The University of California Police, Berkeley and its Office of Emergency Preparedness will use Alerting and Warning System (AWS) Sirens to keep campus community members informed in the event of a major campus emergency. The sirens are tested on the first Wednesday of every month at noon with an accompanying test announcement. If you hear the emergency warning siren at another time, you should take shelter, shut doors and windows, and listen to KALX (90.7 FM), call 1-800-705-9998, or visit the emergency website for current information and instructions.
New this year, People Locator is a virtual public bulletin board which will be activated in case of a major emergency. Log in and post info here about your status and location. Friends and relatives can check in and see that you are safe, and you can check on others.
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Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center produces a skillfully-packaged quarterly magazine (also called Greater Good) that showcases research on the roots of positive human behavior in straightforward prose aimed at a general readership.
Its latest issue gathers around the flickering campfire (or high-def screen) of the 21st century family.
The magazine seeks readers, of course, but also contributors, including grad students.
One of its two co-editors, Jason Marsh, has a journalism master’s degree from Berkeley (’05). The science center’s director, Christine Carter McLaughlin, received her sociology M.A. in 2003 and her Ph. D. here in 2007. Her piece in this issue, “The Placebo Effect,” is a useful take on the self-help empire called The Secret.
Of the 471 scientists named to the American Association for the Advancement of Science as new members for 2007, 10 are members of the Berkeley faculty. They’ll each be presented with a certificate and a rosette pin (that’s coincidentally blue and gold — for engineering and science, respectively) at the 2008 AAAS annual meeting February in Boston.
The honor comes for their “scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications,” according to Science, the AAAS’s publication.
The new fellows here bring the Berkeley campus total to 205. The alumni among the recent crop are Robert L. Fischer Ph.D. ’70, professor of plant and microbial biology, Richard B. Norgaard, professor of energy and resources (who earned his B.A. here in economics; in spring, he received a Sarlo Award for mentoring from the Graduate Division), and Thomas M. “Zack” Powell, professor of integrative biology, whose B.A. and Ph.D. are both from Berkeley. Powell is married to Mimi Koehl, also an integrative biology professor here (a Duke alumna) who, in another coincidence, is also a new AAAS fellow this year.
The United Nations Association, through its East Bay chapter, in October honored the City of Berkeley, several Bay Area civic organizations, a group of UC students, and one individual with separate “Global Citizen Award” recognition for their respective accomplishments in the arenas of the environment and social justice. That one person was Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Ashok Gadgil. He was recognized for inventing a rugged system for disinfecting water very cheaply using ultraviolet light instead of chemicals like chlorine or the old, slow, energy-intensive method of boiling.
UV Waterworks, an inexpensive
system for disinfecting water, could
help communities in developing
nations
His invention makes safe drinking water affordable and accessible, even to poor communities in developing countries, where the risk of waterborne pollutants is highest. It isn’t the first time this invention has been singled out: in 1996, for instance, UV Waterworks, as it’s called, received a “Best of What’s New” Popular Science Award and also a Discover Award for the most significant invention in the environment category.
Gadgil himself has received numerous awards and has been named one of the 35 top American inventors. Much of his work has centered on the “indoor environment.”
Karl Pister at the Berkeley Faculty
Club, of which he is the current
president — just one example of
the many roles he continues to
serve in on boards, nonprofits,
and advisory groups. Another
is the Graduate Division, which
he has counseled for years
as a member of its Graduate
Fellowships Advisory Board.
(Peg Skorpinski photo)
Berkeleyan, the campus newspaper for faculty and staff, summed him up nicely: “Karl Pister is known for taking on a challenge where others might shy away. He’s been a tireless advocate for underrepresented or disadvantaged students, a steady voice for bolstering K-112 science and math education, and a determined believer in high-tech innovation to shore up U.S. competitiveness.”
It catalogued his “66-year association with UC” — undergraduate (B.S. ’45), grad student (M.S. ’48), professor and a decade as dean (of engineering), chancellor (of UC Santa Cruz), vice president (of UC systemwide) — “and go-to guy for nearly every intractable problem a university can dish out.”
For all this and more, in late October Pister was presented with the Clark Kerr Award for Distinguished Leadership in Higher Education by the Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate.
The award, given since 1968, has recognized giants and lesser-known figures in education not only from Berkeley and the UC family but nationally and internationally as well. Among the 40 recipients, however, including Pister and its namesake, former UC President Clark Kerr Ph.D. ’39, fully one-quarter are graduate alumni of this campus. (The other grad alums are U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren B.A. ’12, J.D. ’14; Common Cause founder John W. Gardner Ph.D. ’38; Chinese University of Hong Kong founding president Choh-Ming Li B.S. ’32, Ph.D. ’36; longest-serving Berkeley graduate dean Sanford Elberg Ph.D. ’30; chemistry Nobelist Glenn T. Seaborg Ph.D. ’37; Berkeley vice chancellor and “patriarch of botany” Lincoln Constance M.S. ’32, Ph.D. ‘34; founding business dean Ewald Grether M.A. ’23, Ph.D. ’24; chemistry professor Kenneth Pitzer Ph.D. ’37, who served as president of Stanford and Rice universities; chemistry Nobelist Yuan T. Lee Ph.D. ’49; and physicist Herbert F. York Ph.D. ’49, the first director of the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and first chancellor of UC San Diego. )
TopThe Tilden Room on top of the Student Union was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lee Tilden Jr., as a memorial to their son, Cal student Charles Lee Tilden III. Charles Lee Tilden Jr., (1894-1968), was a member of the 1920 and 1924 Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. rugby union teams. If the last name seems familiar because of the park in the Berkeley Hills, yes, it’s the same family. The first Charles Lee Tilden (1857-1950) was also a Cal grad (class of 1878) who became an attorney and businessman. He led the effort to establish regional parks in the East Bay, He served on the first board of directors of the park district set up for that purpose, and one of the first three parks established was named for him.
Henry Morse Stephens was a history professor here in the early 20th century, and the students of the time wanted his name there. For more on that, including how the Graduate Student Lounge came about, see The Graduate, Spring 2006 (PDF) .
His 1970 Ph.D. was in physics, but he’s now an oceanographer and aquatic ecologist. When he joined the Berkeley faculty in fall 1994 after 24 years at UC Davis, a profile of him pointed out that his parents and all four of his siblings are Berkeley grads, and that Powell himself was recruited by Cal to play on the 1960 football team by then end-coach Bill Walsh (who went on to be head coach at Stanford — twice — but, more noticeably, took the San Francisco 49ers to three Super Bowl victories).
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