Thanks to the thousands who protested here in 1964, universities nationwide began to ensure students’ rights to free political speech. Inspired in part by the Civil Rights Movement, those protests ...

UC Berkeley’s Principles of Community guide our personal and collective behavior and how we interact with one another. One of those principles is Free Speech/Freedom of Expression. There are hundreds ...

Located here: Philosophy and institutes for Governmental Studies, International Studies, European Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Governmental Studies Library ...

The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Café, centrally located at the entrance to Moffitt Library, is a casual place to gather, study, or take a break with friends and colleagues. It is also a venue for ...

Designed by John Galen Howard and financed by Phoebe Apperson Hearst as a memorial to her husband George, "a plain honest man and good miner," silver tycoon, and U.S. senator. The building underwent a ...

Original home of much of the computer infrastructure on campus, the building gets poor reviews because of its dark, closed-in design, its massive scale, and its unfortunate location spoiling the main ...

This log cabin behind the Faculty Club was originally a meeting hall for the senior class. It was the first campus building to be built with student donations. Spared from planned dismantling in 1973, ...

Funded by the Y & H Soda Foundation and named in honor of Y. Charles and Helen Soda as a tribute to their commitment to education in the Bay Area. With classrooms, labs, and offices, Soda Hall was ...

Built on the site of a natural amphitheater in the hills above campus, with funds donated by William Randolph Hearst, the Greek Theatre was the first building designed by campus architect John Galen ...

French architect Henri Jean Emile Benard was the winner of the university's Comprehensive Building Plan of 1900, funded by campus benefactor Phoebe Apperson Hearst. Benard collected his $10,000 prize, ...

The Institute of Governmental Studies Library is one of the nation's premier libraries of non-trade and ephemeral materials on American public affairs and policy. Pamphlets and unbound reports from a ...

Botanical Garden at Berkeley is a living museum open to the public. The garden contains more than 12,000 different kinds of plants from all over the world on its 34 acres.