University of California, Riverside

The University of California, Riverside is a public, coeducational university situated in Riverside, California beside Box Springs Mountain. It is one of ten University of California (UC) campuses and is popularly known as UCR or UC Riverside. As of 2003, UCR was the fastest growing UC campus in terms of enrollment and endowment.

Academics

UCR was originally established in 1907 as the Citrus Experiment Station (which introduced the navel orange to the United States) and significant agricultural research still takes place there. Today, UCR is oriented towards undergraduates, with 78 majors and 45 minors, but also offers graduate degrees. It is the only UC campus to offer an undergraduate degree in creative writing and one of only two UC campuses to offer an undergraduate degree in Business Administration. UCR features a unique biomedical sciences program which allows students to earn both B.Sc. and M.D. degrees in seven years instead of eight.

UCR is also a primary partner in the Riverside Regional Technology Park, which also includes the City of Riverside, the County of Riverside, and various private industry members. The park is intended to assist entrepreneurs in developing new products and help move UCR discoveries into the marketplace.

UCR is host to the world's largest academic collection of Star Trek material. Some of this material is apparently marked for "Library Use Only" since it is on display part of the J. Lloyd Eaton Collection on the fourth floor of the UCR Rivera Library.

Organization

Chancellors

• Gordon Watkins (1949-1956)
• Herman Spieth (1956-1964)
• Ivan Hinderaker (1964-1979)
• Tomás Rivera (1979-1984) First Minority UC Chancellor
• Daniel Aldrich (1984, acting)
• Ted Hullar (1985-1987)
• Rosemary Schraer (1987-1992) First Female UC Chancellor
• Raymond Orbach (1992-2002)
• David H. Warren (2002, acting)
• France A. Córdova (2002-present)

Colleges and Schools

UCR's academic departments and programs are organized into five colleges and schools:

• UC Riverside College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ;
• UC Riverside College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences ;
• UC Riverside Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering;
• UC Riverside A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management ;
• UC Riverside Graduate School of Education .

UCR's University Extension program provides continuing education to community members of the Inland Empire.

Athletics

UCR competes in the NCAA Division I in the Big West Conference. The official UCR mascot is the Highlander.

Notable faculty

• John V. Tunney - Professor of Business Law, former United States Senator and Representative
• Carl Cranor - Ph.D., Professor of Legal Philosophy, Philosophic Issues in Science and the Law, Moral Philosophy, Regulatory Policy, Political Philosophy, and Pioneer of toxic tort litigation, serving as reference to Federal Judges, elected to U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the Collegium Ramazzini (International Headquarters in Carpi, Italy), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Paul Hoffman - Ph.D., Professor of Early Modern Philosophy, Moral Psychology, Philosophy of Mind, and considered to be one of the most prominent, leading scholar on the Metaphysics of Descartes in the philosophy community
• Richard Cardullo - Professor of Biology, Expert on mammalian fertilization, biophysicist
• Umar Moideen - Professor of Physics, measured the Casimir Effect
• George Edgar Slusser - Professor of Comparative Literature, science fiction expert

Notable alumni and students

• Billy Collins (PhD 1971) - The eleventh U.S. Poet Laureate
• Troy Percival - Professional baseball pitcher
• Charles Young (1954) - First UCR student body president and former UCLA chancellor
• Jamie Chung - Cast member in Real World San Diego

Points of Interest

• University of California, Riverside, Botanic Gardens

Grant from Department of Homeland Security

In February 2005, a team of researchers from the University of California, Riverside (UCR) and Lucent Technologies received a US$800,000 grant from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to evaluate modern data-mining methods for discovering behaviour patterns which could be a threat to the national security of the United States of America.

• More information about the DHS grant

External links

• Main UCR site
• UCR Athletics
• Campus map
• Web tour
• Digital History Archive of UCR