Named not for its location but for Wayne and Gladys Valley, who contributed toward the vast building's major renovation in the early 1990s. The largest building in Berkeley (and the ... and the names ...

Benard collected his $10,000 prize, but declined appointment as the campus's supervising architect (balking at leaving the sophistication of Paris for Berkeley's turn-of-the-century ruggedness); ...

Casey Robert Goonan set fires and placed explosives on federal and university ... building. Goonan also admitted that they put six Molotov cocktail explosives under the fuel tank of a UC Berkeley ...