University of California - Obama Presidency Oral History University of California Index / Organizations Transcript Andrew Stern ...with the community, which led to a Berkeley -type People's Park activit... Bill McKibben ...It's important to get Columbia, and the University of California , and Oxford, and Cambridge to divest... Kate Orff ...Baylands and doing a big lecture at [ University of California ] Berkeley. So I was doing my lectur... ...lecture at [University of California] Berkeley . So I was doing my lecture at si... ...[gasps]. I kind of stumbled around the Berkeley campus for a little while and the... Neera Tanden ...in Bedford, and eventually, I went to UCLA [University of California, Lo... ...and eventually, I went to UCLA [ University of California , Los Angeles], and eventually I wen... Sarah Holway ...about that program. They're living in Berkeley . It doesn't snow there. They're in ... Steven Chu ...I had been then director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab [Laboratory], in larg... ...organization, nearly adjacent to [ University of California ] Berkeley. It was really in, maybe... ...adjacent to [University of California] Berkeley . It was really in, maybe, the middl... ...exercise, as director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. It had about four or five thousan... ...myself. I was a graduate student at Berkeley , but I was a lab employee for the tim... ...Gate Bridge and goes directly into Berkeley , and leaves North Oakland alone. S... ...Oakland can be five degrees warmer than Berkeley , or six degrees warmer. I said, “Ther... ...“Oh, God, this guy, Chu. He's from Berkeley Lab. That's where the Hulk got his dos... ...I gave a talk in the fall of 2008 in Berkeley [California]. It was ... ...I had been then director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab [Laboratory], in larg... ...organization, nearly adjacent to [ University of California ] Berkeley. It was really in, maybe... ...adjacent to [University of California] Berkeley . It was really in, maybe, the middl... ...exercise, as director of Lawrence Berkeley Lab. It had about four or five thousan... ...myself. I was a graduate student at Berkeley , but I was a lab employee for the tim... ...Gate Bridge and goes directly into Berkeley , and leaves North Oakland alone. S... ...Oakland can be five degrees warmer than Berkeley , or six degrees warmer. I said, “Ther... ...“Oh, God, this guy, Chu. He's from Berkeley Lab. That's where the Hulk got his dos... ...I gave a talk in the fall of 2008 in Berkeley [California]. It was ... Show more... Nancy-Ann DeParle ...I went to the Bancroft Library at Berkeley , and I spent time in the Nationa... Melanie Bahnke ...doing this interview remotely. I'm in Berkeley , California, which sits on th... Arun Majumdar ...know what I would have said. I was in Berkeley , so you can imagine what I could hav... ...a professor, a scientist, engineer, at UC Berkeley , where I was, and at Lawrence Berkele... ...Berkeley, where I was, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, until I bumped into ... ...just become the director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, which is right adjacen... ...to—almost across the street from UC Berkeley . And he was inspirational. He educate... ...the inspiration he provided at Lawrence Berkeley Labs. At some point, he asked me t... ...to lead an energy division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. And I was reluctant. I was ... ...Technologies Division at Lawrence Berkeley Lab. And I worked very closely wit... ...lab, and I had to resign from all the UC Berkeley system. So that was done by othe... ...all of that. I see. I'm shocked that Berkeley didn't allow you to take a leave o... ...as an aside. Actually, that was not Berkeley 's decision. That was the decision o... ...easy, because I had been a student at Berkeley , I was a faculty at Berkeley fo... ...student at Berkeley, I was a faculty at Berkeley for thirteen years. Then, to suddenl... ...trying to recruit someone at Lawrence Berkeley Lab, and I didn't have an... Show more... Related Topics go to the Climate, Environment, and Energy Climate, Environment, and Energy go to the Healthcare Healthcare Black Politics Coming soon Human Rights Coming soon Atlantic Relations Coming soon