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She was the daughter of UC anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and his wife, Theodora, an author. A Wizard of Earthsea and The Left Hand of Darkness are among her most popular books. Ursula is for Ursula Le Guin (1929-2018), another American science fiction writer, who attended Berkeley High School with Dick (Class of 1947), but they didn’t know each other at the time. She joined Berkeley’s faculty in 1986 in the English, women’s studies and African American studies departments and directed the popular Poetry for the People course. June is for June Jordan (1936-2002), an award-winning Jamaican American poet, playwright, essayist, social critic and activist with a fierce commitment to human rights. His works inspired popular films including Blade Runner and Total Recall and the TV series “The Man in the High Castle.” June Dick (1928-1982), an American science fiction writer who was in the Class of 1949 at Berkeley High School and briefly went to UC Berkeley (Sept. on Friday morning, May 12, on Berkeley News and is scheduled to be shared at the same time on ABC-7 (KGO-TV). The winning names for Annie and Lou’s rapidly-growing chicks - one male and two females - will be revealed at 7:30 a.m.

Now, it’s your turn to vote using this Cal Falcons form. The kids’ name finalists were selected by librarians at the Berkeley Public Library. The total number of names suggested was more than 2,000.Ĭal Falcons scientists chose the names below from the most popular posts on the Cal Falcons social media network. About 750 people sent suggestions to Cal Falcons - 550 were from adults and 200 from kids. The first phase of a Cal Falcons public contest to name the offspring of falcons Annie and Lou has resulted in 15 finalist names.

Should UC Berkeley’s three peregrine falcon chicks be named after famous UC Berkeley authors, campus libraries, Bay Area mountains, the wind, the moon, the UC’s first female graduate or the Greek word for “air”? The public is invited to vote starting today. This peregrine falcon chick and its two siblings, which hatched in April 2023 atop UC Berkeley’s Campanile, need names.

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