In 2002, Veneman was diagnosed with breast cancer and received successful treatment.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

Although in 2002 the NYSE and the NASDAQ required that nominating committees consist of independent directors as a condition of listing, nomination committees have historically received input from management in their selections even when the CEO does not have a position on the board.

By 2002, the website received 7 million page hits per month.

Similarly, the CD / DVD-ROM version of the Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite, received the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Association of Educational Publishers, and Codie awards in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

EVM also received greater attention by publicly traded companies in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Shortly before his death in 2002, he received the ACM PODC Influential Paper Award in distributed computing for his work on self-stabilization of program computation.

Brundtland received an operation for uterine cancer in 2002 at Ullevål University Hospital.

The VT Commodore received its first major update in 2002 with the VY series.

In 2002, he received a for a " system and method for coordinating music display among players in an orchestra.

After a relatively low phase, she reinvented herself with the romance Dil To Pagal Hai ( 1997 ) and subsequently received critical acclaim for her work in films like Mrityudand ( 1997 ), Pukar ( 2000 ), Lajja ( 2001 ) and Devdas ( 2002 ).

It has received many awards, including Best Picture at the 2001 Japanese Academy Awards, Golden Bear ( First Prize ) at the 2002 Berlin Film Festival, and the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

In 2002, Imation received a US $ 11. 9 million grant from the U. S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for research into increasing the data capacity of magnetic tape.

For those actions, he received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II in 2002.

The album was well received, having been included in the list of New York Times's top albums of 2002.

Dan Immergluck writes that in 2002 small businesses in black neighborhoods still received fewer loans, even after accounting for businesses density, businesses size, industrial mix, neighborhood income, and the credit quality of local businesses.

The Roppongi area received a major economic boost in 2002 – 2003 when the Izumi Garden Tower and the Roppongi Hills high-rise complexes were completed.

Vladimír Mečiar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia, which received about 27 % of the vote in 1998 ( almost 900, 000 votes ) received only 19. 5 % ( about 560, 000 votes ) in 2002 and again went into opposition, unable to find coalition partners.

In February 2002 they received the 2001 A. M. Turing Award by the Association for Computing Machinery ( ACM ), with the citation: " For ideas fundamental to the emergence of object oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67.

Two restaurants specialising in Thai cuisine have received Michelin stars: " Nahm " in London, run by David Thompson received its star in 2002, and " Kiin Kiin " in Copenhagen, run by chef Henrik Yde-Andersen and Lertchai Treetawatchaiwong, received its in 2009.

In 2002, Le Guin received the PEN / Malamud Award for " excellence in a body of short fiction.

Even more unusual for a consumer-electronics product, it remained in production until 2002 and received only one major upgrade in the form of a reworked circuit board that used SMD components.

* 2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $ 35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.

* Turan, Kenneth, Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2002, hardback, ISBN 0-520-21867-1.

GeekSpeak is a radio program on the Central Coast of California, broadcast weekly by KUSP in Santa Cruz, California since 1998 and distributed on the internet since 2002.

On March 18, 2002, publicly elected At-Large Representative for North America board member Karl Auerbach sued ICANN in Superior Court in California to gain access to ICANN's accounting records without restriction.

In 2002, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to her.

* Glenn T. Seaborg Medal, University of California at Los Angeles, 2002

Crow at The Grove at Farmers Market | The Grove of Los Angeles, California in 2002, with co-guitarist Peter Stroud

Shirley Ann Dean ( Bryant ), considered moderate in Berkeley politics, is an American politician who served as the Mayor of Berkeley, California from 1994 to 2002.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

* December 26 – The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, founder of Organization US ( a black nationalist group ) and later chair of Black Studies, at California State University, Long Beach from 1989 to 2002.

In addition to the full-time MBA, the school offers four Executive MBA programs: the NY-EMBA Friday / Saturday program, the EMBA-Global program ( launched in 2001 in conjunction with the London Business School ), the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program ( launched in 2002 in conjunction with the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley ), and the EMBA-Global Asia program ( launching in 2009 in conjunction with the London Business School and the University of Hong Kong Business School ).

* Shorena Kurtsikidze and Vakhtang Chikovani, Georgia's Pankisi Gorge: An Ethnographic Survey, Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2002.

At times, he has supported Democrats in California, including liberal House of Representatives member Sam Farr in 2002 and Governor Gray Davis, whom he voted for in 1998 and hosted pricey fundraisers for in 2002 and 2003.

Starting in 2002, an attempt to declare an " official ghost town " in California stalled when the adherents of the town of Bodie, in Northern California, and those of Calico, in Southern California, could not come to an agreement as to which of their favorites was more deserving.

* Orange County ( film ), 2002 film set in Orange County, California

The first U. S. Green elected to a state legislature was Audie Bock in 1999, to the California State Assembly, followed by John Eder to the Maine House of Representatives in 2002 and 2004 and Richard Carroll to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 2008.

Urich died in 2002 in Thousand Oaks, California.

* Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Kohn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, 2002

After a long battle with cancer, he died in his home in Marina del Rey, California, shortly after midnight on May 17, 2002.