* The California Alumni Association of the University of California, Berkeley now annually awards the outstanding achievement of a young alumnus or alumna with the Mark Bingham Award for Excellence in Achievement at its Charter Gala each spring.

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

Widney Alumni House, built in 1880, is the oldest university building in Southern California.

* Caltech Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology ( 2010 )

in drama from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1968, where he was also the Honorary President of the UCSB Alumni Association.

* Distinguished Alumni Award of the California Institute of Technology in 2003

A chartered club of the California Alumni Association, the Daily Californian Alumni Association holds regular reunions and receptions across the country.

* East China Normal University Alumni Association in North California

Additional awards include the Richard E. Lyng Award for Public Service ( 2005 ), the UC Berkeley Goldman School of Public Policy Alumni of the Year Award ( 2003 ), the California State Fair ’ s Agriculturalist of the Year Award ( 2003 ), and the National 4-H Alumni Recognition Award.

Alumni Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones were documenting the early days of the Black Panther Party in northern California.

They are the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Speaker of the State Assembly, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, president and vice president of the Alumni Associations of UC, and president of the University of California.

The Alumni Association keeps in touch with many of the 150, 000 students who have attended Cal Poly through a variety of alumni functions, both educational and social, on and off campus, throughout California, and across the nation.

He was awarded the National Defense Service Medal ; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal ; Marine Corps Expeditionary Medal, and a Letter of Commendation from the Commander of Carrier Division Two ; received the NASA Group Achievement Award, 1971 ; NASA Distinguished Service Medal, 1974 ; Navy Distinguished Service Medal and the Navy Astronaut Wings ; 1974 ; City of Chicago Gold Medal, 1974 ; University of Southern California Alumni Merit Award, 1974 ; Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, 1974 ; Robert J. Collier Trophy for 1973, in 1974 ; City of New York Gold Medal, 1974 ; Marine Corps Aviation Association's Exceptional Achievement Award, 1974 ; Dr. Robert H. Goddard Memorial Trophy, 1975 ; also recipient of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale's Gold Space Medal ; De la Vaulx Medal, and V. M.

Carr is a fellow of the American Astronautical Society ; a former Director of the Sunsat Energy Council ; a former Director of the Houston Pops Orchestra ; a Director of the National Space Society ; the Marine Corps Association and the Marine Corps Aviation Association ; The National Naval Aviation Museum Foundation ; Society of Experimental Test Pilots ; The Order of Daedalians ; National Society of Professional Engineers ; University of Southern California Alumni Association, and Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

All-Hallows Alumni were the largest group of secular priests in California up to the late 1890s.

Linenger is a member of the Alumni Associations of the U. S. Naval Academy, University of Southern California, Wayne State University School of Medicine, and University of North Carolina, the Association of Naval Aviation, the U. S. Navy Flight Surgeons Association, the Aerospace Medicine Association, the American Medical Association, the American College of Preventive Medicine, the Society of U. S. Navy Preventive Medicine Officers, and the American College of Sports Medicine.

Recipient of 4 NASA Space Flight Medals, ( 1985, 1991, 1993 ), NASA Exceptional Service Medals ( 1988, 1989 ), NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal ( 1992 ), AAS Flight Achievement Award, STS-37 Crew ( 1992 ), Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Illinois ( 1992 ), NASA Distinguished Service Medal ( 1994 ), Distinguished Alumni Award, California State University, Fresno ( 1994 ), Lincoln Laureate, State of Illinois ( 1994 ).

Thuot is a member of the U. S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the Association of Naval Aviation, the University of Southern California Alumni Association, the Association of Space Explorers, the American Astronautical Society ( AAS ) and an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ( AIAA ).

* Southern California Association of Zeta Psi Alumni

Category: Alumni of University of California at Berkeley

" was shot on location at the California Institute of the Arts around the time the school first opened.

The theater program at Caltech is known as TACIT, or Theater Arts at the California Institute of Technology.

Category: California Institute of the Arts alumni

Back in the United States, Lynch returned to Virginia, but since his parents had moved to Walnut Creek, California, he was forced to stay with his friend Tony Keeler for a while, before he decided to move to the city of Philadelphia, where, at the advice of Jack Fisk, who was already attending it, he decided to enroll at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, something he preferred far more than his previous art college in Boston, claiming that " In Philadelphia there were great and serious painters, and everybody was inspiring one another and it was a beautiful time there.

He financed his education at the Los Angeles State College of Applied Arts and Sciences and the University of Southern California, from which Towers graduated with a law degree in 1967.

* 1927 – Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM ), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

On August 20, 2007, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and his wife, Maria Shriver, announced that Robinson was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, located at The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts in Sacramento.

While living in Echo Park, California, he enrolled at Los Angeles ' Manual Arts High School, from which he was expelled, after having been expelled from another high school in 1928.

* California Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts

He briefly attended the California Institute of Technology and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics ( with a minor in psychology ) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962.

In the same year, she also designed the new plaza that anchors the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine.

The University of Southern California has three distinct centers for media studies: the Center for Visual Anthropology ( founded in 1984 ), the Institute for Media Literacy at the School of Cinematic Arts ( founded in 1998 ) and the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism ( founded in 1971 ).

In 1967, Nancy Reagan was appointed by her husband to the California Arts Commission, and a year later was named Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year ; in its profile, the Times labeled her " A Model First Lady ".

After graduating from Burbank High School with Jeff Riekenberg, Burton attended the California Institute of the Arts to study character animation.

Taking advantage of the Morrill Land Grant Act, the California Legislature established an Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in 1866.

On October 9, 1867, the College's trustees reluctantly agreed to merge with the state college to their mutual advantage, but under one condition — that there not be simply a " Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College ", but " a complete university ", within which the College of California would become the College of Letters ( now the College of Letters and Science ).

On December 6, 2006, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria Shriver inducted Walt Disney into the California Hall of Fame located at The California Museum for History, Women, and the Arts.

State of the Arts: California Artists Talk About Their Work.

* Honorary Degree, California Institute of the Arts

In 1983, he became an instructor in Advanced Video, California Institute of the Arts, in Valencia, California.

-- `` The present recovery movement will gather steady momentum to lift the economy to a new historic peak by this autumn '', Beryl W. Sprinkel, economist of Harris Trust & Savings Bank, Chicago, predicted at the closing session here Tuesday of Investment Bankers Assn., California group, conference.

Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

Belmont, California: Wadsworth & Brooks.

Berkeley DB originated at the University of California, Berkeley as part of the transition ( 1986 to 1994 ) from 4. 3BSD to 4. 4BSD and of the effort to remove AT & T-encumbered code.

According to the U. S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2011 ranking, " California Institute of Technology headlines the new rankings, with top billing in three categories: chemistry, earth sciences and physics.

* Robert M. Timm, Hopland Research & Extension Center, University of California, Hopland, California ; Rex O. Baker, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona ( retired ), Corona, California ; Joe R. Bennett, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Taft, California ; and Craig C. Coolahan, USDA APHIS Wildlife Services, Sacramento, California, " Coyote Attacks: An Increasing Suburban Problem " ( March 3, 2004 ).

Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.

Another lawsuit, which lists 1, 200 plaintiffs, alleges contamination near PG & E's Kettleman Hills Compressor Station in Kings County, California, along the same pipeline as the Hinkley site.

Timmy T, Caleb-B, SF Spanish Fly, Angelina, One Voice, M: G, Stephanie Fastro & The S Factor are from the Bay Area, and San Diego artists Gustavo, Alex, Jose Santos, Robert Romo of the group Internal Affairs, and Frankie J were popular freestyle artists from southern California.

* University of California Santa Barbara has an interdisciplinary graduate program emphasis in Technology & Society through the Center for Information Technology & Society.

The console was test marketed in Fresno, California, in 1979 with a total of four games available, and was released nationwide in 1980 with a price tag of US $ 299 and a pack-in game: Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.

In 1979, he entered the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California for several weeks before moving with his last wife, Maria, to Acapulco, Mexico, the location of his last Tarzan movie.

The band's first release was the single " Stick to Your Guns / Toast of the Town ", which was released on their own record label, Leathür Records, which had a pressing & distribution deal with Greenworld Distribution in Torrance, California.

* Cylinder Preservation & Digitization Project – Over 6, 000 cylinder recordings held by the Department of Special Collections, University of California, Santa Barbara, free for download or streamed online.

In December 2009, the Los Angeles Times reported that the owners of Rolling Stone magazine planned to open a Rolling Stone restaurant in the Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California in the spring of 2010.

Richman continued recording on his own, eventually moving to California in 1975 to begin working with Beserkley Records whose boss Matthew King Kaufman had met Richman when he worked with A & M.

She released a Christmas album called For Christmas with Love ( recorded in Hollywood, California ) and later signed with A & M Records, releasing more albums including, A Gift of Song and Climb Ev ' ry Mountain.

* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.