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UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley

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UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
UC Botanical Garden at Berkeley
Phone:
+1 510-643-2755

Hours:
Sunday9am - 5pm
Monday9am - 5pm
Tuesday9am - 5pm
Wednesday9am - 5pm
Thursday9am - 5pm
Friday9am - 5pm
Saturday9am - 5pm


The University of California, Berkeley is a top-ranked public research university in the United States. Located in the city of Berkeley, 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 a wide range of 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 , 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 Awards winners, and 14 Fields Medalists. They have also won 9 Wolf Prizes, 45 MacArthur Fellowships, 20 Academy Awards, 14 Pulitzer Prizes and 207 Olympic medals . 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.Berkeley is often ranked as a top-ten university in the world and as the top public university in the United States. For 2017–18, the Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked Berkeley 5th in the world. Berkeley also ranks 6th internationally in the CWUR World University Rankings. It is additionally ranked 4th in the world by U.S. News & World Report. Berkeley is ranked 15th internationally in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and as the 6th most reputed university in the world by the Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings.
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