University of California at Berkeley

12 3.1

A large public university in Berkeley, California known for research and teaching

proper noun

: Universidad de California en Berkeley

My own politics were suspect, for I was then a graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley.
University of California at Berkeley professor
research at the University of California at Berkeley
degree from the University of California at Berkeley

Examples

In 1971, the SCEP conclusions were attacked by Harold Johnston, a physical chemist at the University of California at Berkeley.

Academic text (1993)
We also thank the staff of the Survey Research Center, University of California at Berkeley, for their assistance throughout the project.

Academic text (1999)
The University of California at Berkeley plan created a wall between the upper and lower divisions.

Academic text (1995)
An example from the University of California at Berkeley illustrates the point.

Academic text (1996)
Later, he transferred to the University of California at Berkeley in order to work with J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Academic text (1993)
But the University of California at Berkeley had a good history of women graduate students in astronomy.

Academic text (1993)
Beginning in 1907, the University of California at Berkeley accepted advanced high school courses for undergraduate credit.

Academic text (1995)
The University of California at Berkeley, for example, adopted as a motto "Excellence in Diversity."

Academic text (2009)
The center, in Albany, California, is operated by ARS and the University of California at Berkeley.

Academic text (1996)
He's also a professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Surface Forms

University of California at Berkeley main

Morphology

university + of + California + at + Berkeley

This is a compositional proper name: combining 'university' (an institution) with the place names 'California' and 'Berkeley' clearly signals an institution located in Berkeley, California. Such place+institution constructions are cross-linguistically common and follow ordinary compositional patterns, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

University of California at Berkeley is the name for the University of California campus that is in the city of Berkeley. The city was named after the thinker George Berkeley, so the name simply means 'the University of California located in Berkeley'.