He left a quarter of his estate to the university for construction of a new library. The Beaux Arts building ... over the main entrance reflects Berkeley's aspiration to become the "Athens of the West ...

Home to many of the university Library's special collections, including one of the largest collections of Western Americana, the library was founded with Hubert Howe Bancroft's 19th century gift of ...

A University of California Berkeley student just weeks from graduation was paralyzed from the waist down after a “tragic and ...

The ‘denaming’ of Berkeley – an Anglo-Irish Bishop ... of Eavan Boland’s poetic genius” that the university’s main library will now carry her name. Boland, who studied at Trinity ...