Category: Site_visit

6 May 2023 ff, Φ University of California, Berkeley (UCB) campus

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6.5.2023 ff, Φ University of California, Berkeley (UCB) campus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley: … public … research university … Established in 1868 … the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 32,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate students … The university founded and maintains relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos … and has played a role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project … to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics … Ten faculty members and 40 male students made up the fledgling university when it opened in Oakland in 1869 … The university began admitting women the following year …

UC Berkeley School of Public Health, formerly located in Haviland Hall, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_School_of_Public_Health: … one of fourteen schools and colleges … Established in 1943 …it was the first school of public health west of the Mississippi River … Key laboratories … during the middle of the century were the Naval Biological Laboratory, which focused primarily on aerobiology and related microbial research, and the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory which, maintained with the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, pioneered inquiry in the Environmental Health Sciences … The school … played a direct role in community health for years, working with the unified school district, Visiting Nurse Association, and city to provide health services to the Berkeley community through the Berkeley Unified Health Plan …

UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC_Berkeley_College_of_Environmental_Design: … located in Bauer Wurster Hall on the southeast corner of the main UC Berkeley campus … In 1894, Bernard Maybeck was appointed instructor in drawing at the Civil Engineering College of the University of California …

https://ced.berkeley.edu/: Architecture; Landscape architecture & Environmental Planning; City & Regional Planning; Institute of Urban and Regional Development

UCB campus:

  • Sather Tower, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Tower: … a bell tower with clocks on its four faces … more commonly known as The Campanile … for its resemblance to the Campanile di San Marco in Venice … In 2017, a pair of peregrine falcons began nesting on top … followed by webcams and the Cal Falcons social media project …
  • Sather Gate, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sather_Gate: … a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of … campus … Originally, the gate served as the terminus of Telegraph Avenue, and marked the university’s south entrance … part of the historic Sproul Plaza, a major center for student activity that housed many protests throughout the Free Speech Movement …
  • Doe Memorial Library, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Berkeley_Libraries: built in 1910, originally housed the main collections. A strictly Beaux-Arts Classical building … designed by campus architect John Galen Howard as one of the original structures in the “Athens of the West” campus plan … today … Doe serves as the library system’s reference, periodical, and administrative center …
  • UCB Richmond Field Station (RFS), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Field_Station: … a satellite campus … in Richmond, California. The name was changed to the Richmond Bay Campus (RBC) in 2012 and then Berkeley Global Campus at Richmond Bay (BGC) in October 2014, reflecting plans to expand the site to address global issues, first as a second campus for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory …, then as an expansion of the main campus in Berkeley itself. In 2016, the expansion plans were suspended and the name reverted to Richmond Field Station … Starting from the 1950s, UC Berkeley conducted large-scale engineering research at RFS for projects which were not suited for the central campus …, including research in solid waste and sewage, transportation and lighting, and beach erosion … … Environmental Engineering and Health Sciences Laboratory … Earthquake Engineering Research Center … Northern Regional Library Facility …

Cf.:

  • Nov-Dec 1984 Tests: TOEFL, GRE; Application to UCB-SPH
  • 1985-1989 Graduate studies of Public Health (MPH) and Epidemiology (Ph.D.)
  • 15 Aug 1985 Master of Public Health (MPH) program in Berkeley, CA
  • 25 Aug 1986 1986-1989 Ph.D. program in Epidemiology in Berkeley, CA

6 May 2023 ff, Berkeley, incl. Bay Area Book Festival

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6.5.2023 ff, Berkeley, incl. Bay Area Book Festival

Bay Area Book Festival, www.baybookfest.org/schedule23/: What is Bay Area Book Festival? A bridge to everywhere. We believe books, and smart conversations about them, build bridges. At a time when so much divides us, we close the gap with programming that opens minds and hearts … Since 2015, Bay Area Book Festival has featured the boldest and most brilliant literary voices in conversations … with a focus on justice and diversity …

Incl.: „An Evening with Joan Baez: Trailblazing Musician, Artist, and Activist“, … Joan Baez is a dynamic force of nature. Her commitment to music and social activism has earned global recognition … Retired from active performing since 2019, she has devoted much of her time to the “Mischief Makers” series of paintings, portraits that immortalize risk-taking visionaries she has known and who have brought about social change through history, from Dr. Martin Luther King and Bob Dylan to the Dalai Lama and Patti Smith … – Baez will be joined on stage by Greg Sarris, who is in his fifteenth consecutive elected term as the Tribal Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria … Saturday, May 6 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM, Freight & Salvage, Berkeley, CA

B.R. Maybeck: First Church of Christ, Scientist, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Church_of_Christ,_Scientist_(Berkeley,_California): located at 2619 Dwight Way at Bowditch Street across the street from People’s Park …

The historic 1910 church was designed by … architect Bernard Ralph Maybeck (1862–1957), in a primarily American Craftsman style, with Byzantine Revival, Romanesque Revival, and Gothic Revival style elements … widely considered one of Maybeck’s masterpieces …

Berkeley in (Alameda County), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California (18.3.2023): … considered one of the most socially progressive cities in the United States … Berkeley is strongly identified with the rapid social changes, civic unrest, and political upheaval that characterized the late 1960s … Berkeley — especially Telegraph Avenue — became a focal point for the hippie movement, which spilled over the Bay from San Francisco … overlap between the hippie movement and the radical left … conflict over a parcel of university property south of the contiguous campus site that came to be called “People’s Park” … In the end, the park remained undeveloped, and remains so today … A culture of anti-establishment and sociopolitical activism marked the 1960s … The city … promotes greenery and the environment … is a leader in the nationwide effort to re-tree urban areas … also heavily involved in creek restoration and wetlands restoration, including a planned daylighting of Strawberry Creek along Center Street … Urban Creeks Council … Friends of the Five Creeks …

5 May 2023 ff, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage

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5.5.2023 ff, NYC (Sub)Cultural anchorage

The Hotel Chelsea … built between 1883 and 1885 … located at 222 West 23rd Street, between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, in the neighborhood of Chelsea … has been the home of numerous writers, musicians, artists and actors … poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso chose it as a place for philosophical and artistic exchange … Arthur Miller wrote a short piece, “The Chelsea Affect”, describing life at the Chelsea Hotel in the early 1960s … Literary artists … During its lifetime Hotel Chelsea has provided a home to many famous writers and thinkers including Mark Twain, …, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, … Musicians … Grateful Dead, … Bob Dylan, … Leonard Cohen, … Janis Joplin, … Cohen … wrote two songs …, “Chelsea Hotel” and “Chelsea Hotel #2” …

Morgan 1997, p.50: … There are entire books written about the Chelsea and its counter-culture inhabitants … Andy Warhol made the place famous yet again with his 1966 Chelsea Girls, filmed on location in these apartments …

454 W. 20th St., Morgan 1997, p. 49: … House where Kerouac wrote On the Road. … Here, Kerouac stumbled upon the idea of typing on a long roll of teletype paper so that his thoughts could flow without stopping for paper changes …

Village Vanguard (Greenwich Village), Morgan 1997, p. 68: still the place for Jazz in the Village … Kerouac did a series of readings here on seven consecutive nights in December of 1957 …

Chelsea, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelsea,_Manhattan: a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan … The area’s boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, the Hudson River and West Street to the west, and Sixth Avenue to the east, with its northern boundary variously described … primarily residential, with a mix of tenements, apartment blocks, city housing projects, townhouses, and renovated rowhouses … its many retail businesses reflect the ethnic and social diversity of the population

Greenwich Village, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Village: … a neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan … In the 20th century, … known as an artists’ haven, the bohemian capital, the cradle of the modern LGBT movement, and the East Coast birthplace of both the Beat Generation and counterculture of the 1960s … has undergone extensive gentrification and commercialization …

Lit.: Bill Morgan (1997): The Beat generation in New York. A walking tour of Jack Kerouac’s city. City Lights Books, San Francisco.

Cf.:

  • 13 Mar 2022, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1958): The Dharma Bums
  • 4 Nov 2021, Re-reading Jack Kerouac (1957): On the road
  • 20 Mar 2021, Short film: Pull my daisy
  • 25 Feb 2021, Lawrence Ferlinghetti died at age 101
  • 30 Dec 2014, Filme 2014 inkl. John Krokidas (2013): Kill your darlings
  • 17 Mar 2013, Sammlung Falckenberg: Wiliam S. Burroughs
  • 4 Sep 2012, San Franciso beat poets, Tour 1 / 2 / 3, incl. City Lights bookstore

3 May 2023 etc, Φ NYC: Bicycling

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3.5.2023 etc, NYC: Bicycling

NYC, Office of the Mayor, www.nyc.gov/html/dot/html/bicyclists/bicyclists.shtml: Bicyclists. Cycling is one of the best ways to travel around New York City. It’s efficient, affordable, accessible, healthy, and environmentally friendly. We are working every day to build safe infrastructure to encourage more New Yorkers to travel by bike … also host free bike events and provide safe cycling tips for new and experienced cyclists … The official NYC Bike Map is published each year. Plan your route or find a bike shop in your neighborhood …

Citi Bike New York, https://citibikenyc.com/: Expanding access to bikes. Citi Bike is the nation’s largest bikeshare program, with 25,000 bikes and over 1,500 stations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Jersey City, and Hoboken … Riding tips: Wear a helmet … Obey traffic laws … Use the bike lanes …

3 May 2023, Φ NYC, German House: Urban Health Networking Lunch (Campus OWL Germany NY Office & DWIH)

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3.5.2023, Φ NYC, German House: Urban Health Networking Lunch (Campus OWL Germany NY Office & DWIH)

Campus OWL Germany New York Office, www.campus-owl.org/: Campus OWL is a network of five higher education institutions in OstWestfalenLippe (OWL), Germany – Bielefeld University, Paderborn University, Hochschule Bielefeld – University of Applied Sciences and Arts, OWL University of Applied Sciences and Arts, and Detmold University of Music. The Campus OWL New York Office … founded in 2019 … represents these five higher education institutions in North America … a nonprofit organization, … supported through contributions by the universities … The office serves as a hub to connect students, researchers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders to enable cooperation and knowledge exchange …

German Centres for Research and Innovation / Deutsche Wissenschafts- und Innovationshäuser (DWIH), www.dwih-netzwerk.de/en/: a network of German research organisations, universities and research-based companies. In six cities around the world, the DWIH provide a joint platform for German innovation leaders, showcase the capabilities of German research and connect German researchers with local cooperation partners … Work takes place in the following areas: “Information, advertising and marketing”, “Exchange and networks”, and “Service and advice” …

1 May 2023, Contact visit / Kontaktbesuch

3 May 2023, Networking Lunch, organized by Campus OWL NY Office and sponsored by DWIH.