Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

More Hearst Museum collections digitized and posted online

UC Berkeley’s Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, whose world-class collections range from Egyptian mummy sarcophagi to Peruvian textiles to Native American baskets, has added to its digital portal expanding public access to its collections of more than 3.8 million objects, photographs, films and sound recordings.Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology





Video by Stephen McNally

ISHI Yahi Indian At The Hearst Museum of Anthropology pt. 1

Here is a brief video of Ishi's personal collection of artifacts on display at U.C. Berkeley CA. The video was taken on a digital camera and is quite short. It was all I had though...

If you're ever in the San Francisco Bay area, make sure you visit for yourself. Admission is based on a personal donation if you wish, otherwise there is no fee..

ISHI Yahi Indian At The Hearst Museum of Anthropology pt. 2

Here is a brief video of Ishi's personal collection of artifacts on display at U.C. Berkeley CA. The video was taken on a digital camera and is quite short. It was all I had though...

If you're ever in the San Francisco Bay area, make sure you visit for yourself. Admission is based on a personal donation if you wish, otherwise there is no fee.. (more)

All the World Is Here: Anthropology on Display at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair

Ira Jacknis, Research Anthropologist, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago was the first American fair to feature anthropology. The new discipline had its own building, supervised by Frederic Putnam, then director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum. It competed, however, with another display of anthropology, organized by the Smithsonian Institution. In this lecture, Ira Jacknis will explore the many ways in which these exhibits offered competing versions of cultural reality and trace the innovations of anthropological display that have since become standard museum practice.

Recorded 12/6/17

Charter Hill Society Roundtable: Behind the Scenes at the Hearst Museum

Charter Hill Society Leadership Roundtable: Behind the Scenes at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

An insider's look at the Hearst Museum of Anthropology with Victoria Bradshaw, Head of Collections; Ira Jacknis, curator; and Jane Williams, conservator.

Native American Museum Studies Institute 2017 Recap

text from video:
Last week I was honored to participate in the week long Native American Museum Studies Institute at UC Berkeley on behalf of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts and Education Center. This was sponsored by the Joseph Myers Center for Research on Native American Issues, the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, and the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology.

I wanted to make this video to share a bit about what we learned in an easily accessible format, and start a conversation about some of these topics with my family and other folks I know who might be interested in the subjects.

During the workshop we had the privilege to hear from museum professionals from diverse backgrounds who talked in depth about many topics.

We learned about the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act, also known as NAGPRA, which a law written in response to 200 years of grave robbing.

NAGPRA requires institutions that receive federal funding to return Native American cultural items to lineal descendants, tribes, and Native Hawaiian organizations. NAGPRA also establishes procedures for the discovery of Native American cultural items on federal or tribal lands. In California we also have the Native American Heritage Commission which has the ability to intervene on state and private lands. NAGPRA also makes it a criminal offense to traffic Native American human remains or cultural items without right of possession.

The workshop gave us tools to identify opportunities for development and examples of how other organizations have innovated their programs into valuable partnerships or earned revenue opportunities for example, the Advancing Cultural Opportunities for Reclaiming Nutrition program also known as ACORN at the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center, which Developed an energy bar made of acorn meal to address Type 2 diabetes and educates everyone about the value of this California Indian food for health and wellness while teaching Native youth business, cultural and leadership skills.

We also took a field trip to the Richmond Facility of the Phoebe Hearst Museum, whose collection includes 10,000 California Indian baskets. There we learned about collections registration, management, and preservation. We saw how they kept textiles, different types of tribal canoes, and many different baskets from California Indian tribes and other tribes throughout America.

We also visited the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center in Santa Rosa and learned about Exhibit development, from
concept, to schematic design, design development, and production, as well as multimedia engagement strategies

At the California Indian Museum and Cultural Center we also learned about the fight for better educational representation of Native Americans and engaging policy makers in change, which is something that I have worked on with them while I was in graduate school.

The participants also had the opportunity to learn from each other, I spoke about the Arborglyph project, and learned from my colleagues about their experiences starting tribal museums, working at big museums such as the National Museum of the Native American in New York city, and sustaining the work of cultural centers in the face of challenges.

We also learned about digitizing collections, and different free tools such as Mukurtu, that are out there to help organizations like ours.

The Native American Museum Studies Institute was an invaluable experience, where we were offered many resources to build the capacity of our community museums and cultural centers, and participants were able to build lasting bonds with each other. I’m happy to answer any questions and share the resources that were given to me to anyone who is interested so that we can work towards sovereignty over the narrative about indigenous people together.

From Death to Life in Ancient Dilmun

From Death to Life in Ancient Bahrain

When Chirelle McCorley fashioned a replica of a 4,000-year-old ceramic pot found in a Middle Eastern burial mound she was sure to show respect.

I put myself in the time and place of the person making it and asked 'who is that person making this form,' she remembered.

When Emily Carleton was analyzing the skull of a teenage boy buried at the same time, she was filled with awe as she saw the power of facial reconstruction and 3D scanning software.

The two SSU students, like others who have studied with anthropology professor Alexis Boutin since 2009, have had unusual access to a rare collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.

The project began with Friday afternoon visits to the Peter Cornwall collection at the museum that had 4,000-year-old bones unearthed from burial mounds in the Arabian Gulf just asking to be investigated.

Stored carefully by the museum since 1952, a thorough inventory was needed to better understand what Cornwall had unearthed in Bahrain, an island nation off the east coast of Saudi Arabia.

The study opened up the world of biological anthropology to SSU students as well as an introduction to the archaeological processes used in recovering and reconstructing ancient life. The work included analysis, description and interpretation of human remains, artifacts, and animal bones. Cutting-edge technology was employed to visualize and reconstruct ancient human faces.

Carleton was an anthropology major but her art background helped her provide assistance to the forensic artist Gloria Nusse who trained her in basic techniques and helped pave a future career path after graduation.

I was so happy to find different ways to pursue art and science,' she said, describing her current work after graduation with California State Parks as an archaeologist and osteologist.

Nusse used facial reconstruction and 3D scanning techniques to develop the possible face of a teenage boy, confirmed by her comparative research into the likenesses of modern day males from the area.

This face-to-face encounter with ancient Bahrain helped to demystify faraway places and narrow the 4,000 years that separate our lives, allowing us to see people not so different from ourselves. says Boutin who has mounted a first public viewing of a traveling exhibit now on display at the University Library Art Gallery.

Art was also part of the mix for students of art professor Gregory Roberts who last semester presented a challenge to his ceramics class. This meant reproducing replicas of 4,000-year-old vessels found in burial mounds dotting the hillside area in Bahrain.

From matching the color and consistency of the clay to replicating the techniques of the construction, the students rose to the challenge, building the vessels from coiled clay first and then completing them on a wheel as people who made them would have done.
We aimed to show how both scientific rigor and artistic interpretation are necessary for advancing our understanding of ancient Bahrain from one of death to that of life, said Boutin.

HOW BONES CAN TELL THE STORY

The Peter Cornwall collection included the remains of 34 people, mostly middle aged, uncovered in ancient Bahrain burial sites. Boutin and her team were able to conduct fascinating analysis of these human remains with help from the SSU undergraduates.

As biological archaelogists - scientists who study human remains - they could discover the sex, age at death, health and diet, and habitual activities that are direct evidence of past lives. Recent bone chemistry methods show where a person grew up and what kinds of proteins and grains they ate.

One old man who died at 60 showed signs of arthritis throughout his body which would have made chewing painful. A teenage boy was shown to have died between 12-15 years of age and had poor dental health, due to either malnutrition or an infectious disease.


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Music: Enya - Wild Child

Magic and Demonology in Ancient Egypt

Public Lecture by Rita Lucarelli, Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies; Faculty Curator of Egyptology, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Ancient Egyptian texts and objects associated with funerary rituals often include references to “magic” and “demons.” Rita Lucarelli will look at how these concepts were defined and used in ancient Egypt, with a special focus on the roles that demons played in magical practices and spells. Through an examination of textual and material sources produced from the early Pharaonic to the Greco-Roman periods, she will also address how Egyptian beliefs about demons compare with those of other ancient cultures.

2018 Nov 26-28 Egypt Preservation and Heritage Symposium, UC Berkeley

Digital Humanities, Egyptology & Heritage Preservation: A Comparative Perspective
An event sponsored by the LMU-UCB Research in the Humanities, the Townsend Center of Humanities, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and the Near Eastern Studies Department, UC Berkeley.
Location: Hearst Museum of Anthropology
This video presents some of the talks in this conference. The following time stamps indicate when each speaker begins:
Rita Lucarelli intro
Ben Porter 7.19
Christina Hodge 10.52
Nicola Lercari 42.50
Arianna Campiani 1.15.42
Melissa Cradic 1.48.08
Elaine Sullivan 2.18.12
Kacey Hadick and Scott Lee 2.46.33
David Wheeler 3.24.07
Kea Johnston 3.43.32
Adam Anderson 4.30.55

For the complete program see:

Event information: rita.lucarelli@berkeley.edu
Program: November 26
2 pm: Welcome and opening remarks (Rita Lucarelli and Benjamin Porter)
2.15 pm: Justin Underhill (UC Berkeley), Horizons of Interactivity in 3D Modeling and Cultural Heritage
2.45 pm: Melanie Flossmann-Schutze (LMU), Preservation and Digital Humanities in Times of Change. A Case Study from Middle Egypt
3.15 pm: coffee break
3.30 pm: Christina Hodge (Stanford University), Our Dark Materials: Applying Digital Humanities to an Exhibit of Egyptian Archaeology
4 pm: Jessica Kaiser (UC Berkeley), A Changing Narrative: Preliminary Findings from the Abydos Temple Paper Archive
4.30-5 pm: Round table and closing remarks
6.30 pm: Dinner for the speakers
November 27
9.30 am: Nicola Lercari (UC Merced), Archaeological Citizen Science at Bodie State Historic Park
10 am: Arianna Campiani and Nicola Lercari (UC Merced), The Digital Maya Heritage Project: Digital Documentation at Palenque, Chiapas
10.30 am: break
10.45 am: Melissa Cradic (UC Berkeley) Documenting the Dead in the Bronze Age Levant
11.15 am: Elaine Sullivan (UC Santa Cruz) Context at the Necropolis: Using 3D Reconstruction Modeling to Visualize Funerary Culture at Multiple Scales
11.45 am: Patrizia Heindl (LMU) A Database for Late Period Statues
12.15 - 2 pm: lunch break
2 pm: Kacey Hadick and Scott Lee (CyArk), Reality Capture Best Practices: harnessing the power of 3D data
2.30 pm: Graduate Research and Digital Humanties at UC Berkeley
Brooke Norton, Robots and Looters Holes: Exploration at el-Hibeh in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution
David Wheeler and David Cook, From the Field to the Classroom: 3D Scans and Models as Teaching Tools
3 pm: Practical session
Kea Johnston, How to Build 3D Models for Ancient Coffins: Software and Methodologies
Jessica Johnson and Chris Hoffman, Immersive Environments for the Study and Dissemination of 3D Models: VR & the Cave Kiosk at UC Berkeley
4 pm: Final Notes and Roundtable
November 28
9.30 am: Giulia Deotto and Paola Zanovello (University of Padova), Tebtynis: A Private View. Rediscovering the Site Through Archives and the Use of New Technologies
10.00 am: Adam Anderson (UC Berkeley), The Case for 3D Cuneiform
10.30 am: Alexander Schütze (LMU) A “Distant Reading” of Late Period’s Officials' Monuments
11.00 am: Ralph Birk (LMU) The Ptolemaic Synodal Decrees: New Texts in an Old Idiom
11.30 am: Casondra Sobieralski (UC Santa Cruz), Mapping Hathor through Canaan
12.00 am: Closing remarks (Rita Lucarelli)

W. E. B. Du Bois, Education, and Archaeology in Egypt

Vanessa Davies, Visiting Scholar Researcher, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley

Recently discovered correspondence from the early twentieth century has shed light on a disagreement between W. E. B. Du Bois and W. M. F. Petrie, the developer of Egyptian archaeology as a scientific discipline. Their letters focused on the education of people of African descent in America and of Egyptians in Egypt and highlighted the widely divergent views and educational backgrounds of the two men. Vanessa Davies will discuss how issues raised in the Du Bois/Petrie correspondence relate to contemporary concerns about the purpose of education in the twenty-first century.

Presented by Harvard Semitic Museum with support from the Marcella Tilles Memorial Fund.

Recorded 3/28/17

Project IRENE: Analyzing Images to Digitize Sound on Historic Audio Recordings

This lecture describes the IRENE technology, how the method enables the reconstruction of sound from the digital images, and the innovations and challenges relevant to scaling this method for working with thousands of cylinders. The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley is home to nearly 3,000 20th-century ethnographic field recordings that record Native Californians singing and speaking in native languages. These recordings are invaluable to contemporary linguists and community members, but are difficult to access as they were recorded on a fragile, often physically compromised medium: the wax cylinder. A three-year project is underway to use a method collaboratively developed by the Library of Congress and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to recover the audio on these recordings. The method, called IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, Etc.), captures the audio information non-invasively through high resolution, three dimensional imaging of the grooved cylinder surface.

For transcript and more information, visit

Amateurism Across the Arts Conference: Part 1 of 4

The Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley presents:
Amateurism Across the Arts Conference
Friday, March 9, 2018, 9:30am-6:15pm
Hosted at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Amateurism Across the Arts is an exploration of vernacular, popular, fannish, kitsch, informal, self-taught, user-generated, and DIY production in music, architecture, literature, the visual arts, dance, and new media– especially in relation to raced, classed, and gendered notions of value. How do the implicitly skilled “arts” rupture and reorganize themselves around hierarchies of taste? And how can critical race and feminist/queer scholarship account for “hobbyist” — that is, extra-institutional, self-organized, or improvised — modes of cultural production and circulation? If amateurism has been traditionally disavowed in modernist and avant-garde historiographies, it is at the same time persistently—even obsessively—invoked, and is hence inextricably woven into those discourses.

The symposium asks how the “high” and the “low” are porous constructions by looking at the ways that these charged terms have been deployed and dismantled across several artistic disciplines, particularly as we examine the alternative economies and systems of distribution that attend such forms of making. While it has become commonplace for “fine” artists to recruit untrained participants into their practices, it is vital to acknowledge that many non-professional forms of making grow out of necessity and survival. In addition, though “amateur” is frequently used as a shorthand for the unpracticed and/or uninteresting, this conference seeks to understand its connections to its root word amare: a complex outgrowth of critical investment, pleasure, and love.

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Part 1:
Welcome by ARC Director Julia Bryan-Wilson

Self-Taught Student Music Performance with Judith Peña & the Wolf Girls

Part 2:
Street Modernists: Urban Undoings of High and Low

“God is Beautiful and He Loves Beauty”
Talinn Grigor, Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis

“Modern and Vernacular—How Brazilian mid-century architecture problematizes this inherent contradiction”
Fernando Luiz Lara, Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Texas

Response by Greg Castillo, Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, UC Berkeley

Part 3:
Self-Made: Cultural Production Outside of Industry

“Piracy Is the Future of Culture”
Abigail De Kosnik, Associate Professor, Berkeley Center for New Media and Department of Theater, Dance & Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley

“Post-autonomous literature in Latin America: the radical art of poverty”
Cecilia Palmeiro, Professor, Contemporary Latin American Cultural Studies, NYU in Buenos Aires and National University of Tres de Febrero

Response by Natalia Brizuela, Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Literature & Culture, Spanish and Portuguese Department, UC Berkeley

Part 4:
Everyday Avant-Gardes and Non-Elite Evaluations

“Kenner und Liebhaber Revisited: ‘Advanced’ Music and Sound since 1950”
Benjamin Piekut, Associate Professor, Music, Cornell University

“Kaisik Wong: Extravagant Appropriation”
Marci Kwon, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, Stanford University

Response by Stephanie Syjuco, Assistant Professor, Art Practice, UC Berkeley

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Amateurism Across the Arts is an event hosted by the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley, and co-sponsored in part by UC Berkeley’s Division of Arts & Humanities, the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, the Stoddard Lecture Series/History of Art, University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, Judith Butler’s Maxine Elliot Endowed Chair Funds, the Global Urban Humanities Initiative, and the Berkeley Center for New Media. Additional support is provided by the departments of Spanish and Portuguese, Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, Critical Theory, and the Center for Race & Gender, all at UC Berkeley.

arts.berkeley.edu

New grads share their Berkeley experience

As they emerged from their UC Berkeley Anthropology department graduation ceremony on May 23, 2014, five new alums shared their feelings about their Berkeley journey.
Jose Gaspar
Soledad Edmondson
Olivia Reed Filbrandt
Steven Marsiglia
Jing-Sum Cheung

Video by Roxanne Makasdjian and Phil Ebiner

Audio Media Preservation Through Imaging Conference (Day 1)

The Library of Congress hosted scientists and preservationists from around the world at a first-of-its-kind conference exploring new technologies that foster the preservation of sound recordings through digital imaging. Speakers for Day One included Carl Haber, Stefano Sergio Cavaglieri, Ottar Johnsen, Joshua Sternfeld, Jesse Johnston, Bill Veillette and Mason Vander Lugt.

For transcript and more information, visit

Human Sacrifice and Power in the Kerma Kingdom

Public lecture by Elizabeth Minor, Visiting Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Wellesley College

The Kerma Kingdom was an ancient Nubian civilization located in present-day Sudan. Its capital, the city of Kerma, had monumental architecture and religious art depicting deities in the form of lions, scorpions, and hybrid figures such as winged giraffes and hippopotamus goddesses. During the Classic Kerma Period (1700–1550 BCE), funerary monuments of Kerman kings could be up to one hundred meters long and included hundreds of sacrificed individuals. Elizabeth Minor will discuss the complexity of Kerman culture and its practice of human sacrifice as a means to negotiate social hierarchies.

Recorded November 19, 2019

Bradley Marshall (Hupa)

The California Museum exhibit California Indians: Making a Difference, March 2011, Coast.

WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST - WikiVidi Documentary

William Randolph Hearst Sr. was an American businessman, politician, and newspaper publisher who built the nation's largest newspaper chain and media company Hearst Communications and whose flamboyant methods of yellow journalism influenced the nation's popular media by emphasizing sensationalism and human interest stories. Hearst entered the publishing business in 1887 after being given control of The San Francisco Examiner by his wealthy father. Moving to New York City, he acquired The New York Journal and fought a bitter circulation war with Joseph Pulitzer's New York World that sold papers by giant headlines over lurid stories featuring crime, corruption, graphics, sex, and innuendo. Acquiring more newspapers, Hearst created a chain that numbered nearly thirty papers in major American cities at its peak. He later expanded to magazines, creating the largest newspaper and magazine business in the world. He was twice elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives, and r...


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HEADHUNT REVISITED: With Brush, Canvas and Camera — Work in Progress

Director and Photographer:
Michele Westmorland

Director of Photography:
Jeff Streich, First Light Films

Producer:
Kimberlee Bassford, Making Waves Films

Editor:
Sandy Jeglum

Composer:
Eddie Freeman and Marta Victoria, Icarus Music

Voice of Caroline Mytinger:
Lauren Hutton

Audio:
Austin Storm

Archival Images Curiosity of:
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
University of California at Berkeley
Monterey Museum of Art

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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
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UC Berkeley | Wikipedia audio article

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:



00:02:54 1 History
00:03:03 1.1 Founding
00:05:01 1.2 First half of 20th century
00:07:10 1.3 Second half of 20th century
00:08:43 1.4 21st century
00:09:57 2 Organization and administration
00:10:07 2.1 Name
00:10:58 2.2 Governance
00:13:06 2.3 Funding
00:17:17 3 Academics
00:19:15 3.1 Undergraduate programs
00:21:25 3.2 Graduate and professional programs
00:23:10 3.3 Faculty and research
00:24:19 3.4 Library system
00:26:08 3.5 Rankings
00:29:05 3.6 Admissions and enrollment
00:31:27 4 Discoveries and innovation
00:31:43 4.1 Natural sciences
00:34:29 4.2 Computer and applied sciences
00:36:30 4.3 Companies and entrepreneurship
00:38:25 5 Campus
00:41:29 5.1 Architecture
00:44:01 5.2 Natural features
00:45:32 5.3 Environmental record
00:46:37 6 Student life and traditions
00:50:28 6.1 Student housing
00:50:57 6.1.1 University housing
00:53:35 6.1.2 Cooperative housing
00:55:30 6.1.3 Fraternities and sororities
00:55:51 6.2 Student-run organizations
00:56:01 6.2.1 Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC)
00:57:36 6.2.2 Communications media
00:59:13 6.2.3 Student groups
01:06:01 6.3 Athletics
01:09:38 7 Notable alumni, faculty, and staff
01:10:15 7.1 Faculty
01:12:25 7.2 Alumni
01:32:47 8 Controversies
01:35:40 9 See also



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The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public research university in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1868 and serves as the flagship institution of the ten research universities affiliated with the University of California system. Berkeley has since grown to instruct over 40,000 students in approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs covering numerous disciplines.Berkeley is one of the 14 founding members of the Association of American Universities, with $789 million in R&D expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015. Today, Berkeley maintains close relationships with three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories—Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory—and is home to many institutes, including the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Space Sciences Laboratory. Through its partner institution University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Berkeley also offers a joint medical program at the UCSF Medical Center.As of October 2018, Berkeley alumni, faculty members and researchers include 107 Nobel laureates, 25 Turing Award winners, and 14 Fields Medalists. They have also won 9 Wolf Prizes, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 19 Pulitzer Prizes, and 207 Olympic medals (117 gold, 51 silver and 39 bronze). In 1930, Ernest Lawrence invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, based on which UC Berkeley researchers along with Berkeley Lab have discovered or co-discovered 16 chemical elements of the periodic table – more than any other university in the world. During the 1940s, Berkeley physicist J. R. Oppenheimer, the Father of the Atomic Bomb, led the Manhattan project to create the first atomic bomb. In the 1960s, Berkeley was particularly noted for the Free Speech Movement as well as the Anti-Vietnam War Movement led by its students. In the 21st century, Berkeley has become one of the leading universities in producing entrepreneurs and its alumni have founded a large number of companies worldwide.For 2018–19, UC Berkeley ranks 5th internationally in the Academic Ranking of World Universities, 28th in the QS World University Rankings, 15th in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and 4th in the U.S. News & World Report Global University Rankings.[26] [27] [28] [29] Berkeley has been consistently cited as one of the s ...

Phillip Broughton's Interview

Phillip Broughton is a health physicist and Deputy Laser Safety Officer at University of California Berkeley. In this interview, he describes how he became a health physicist and the kind of work he does at Berkeley. He provides an overview of the buildings at Berkeley where Manhattan Project scientists worked during the war, and discusses some of the key scientists such as Glenn Seaborg. Broughton also recounts experiences from the year he spent working at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica, where in addition to serving as the science cryogenics handler, he also became the Station’s bartender.

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