Routes to Berkeley

Whatever the story is about UC Berkeley accepting its own students into graduate school, they don't have any problem hiring their own PhD's as faculty. Of the Physics department faculty, 21 have PhD's from UC Berkeley, 7 from MIT, 4 each from Harvard and Stanford, 3 each from Chicago, Paris, Princeton, and Tokyo; two each from Caltech, Cambridge, and Rome; and one from each of Birmingham, Bonn, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Helsinki, Johns Hopkins, Michigan, Prague, Rochester, Rutgers, Tel Aviv, UIUC, UM Amherst, Virginia, Wisconsin.

At Rochester, the situation is similar, with Rochester and MIT both contributing 7 faculty members. Then comes Cornell (which is about 2 hours drive from Rochester) with 5, Chicago with 4, Harvard and Princeton with 3; UC Berkeley, Purdue, Washington University, and Yale with 2; and then one each from Bristol, Caltech, Columbia, India, Manchester, Netherlands, Northeastern, Penn State, Stanford, Stony Brook, Syracuse, Tel Aviv, UCSD, UIUC, and Washington.

(Of course, to some extent this just reflects the pure number of PhD's from a place.)

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I moved the story to my nibot_lab account:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/nibot_lab/12304.html

Pictures from Carnegie Mellon University

Here's the CMU (allegedly pronounced "Car`NEG-ee," btw) campus as viewed from the Cathedral of Learning. To the right you can see a small group braving the pouring rain to attend an anti-war rally.

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Also, I updated the Bodega Bay entry with pictures.